Coenosia Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) from Angola: new species and records
Author
Couri, Marcia S.
Author
Pont, Adrian C.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4103
6
501
512
journal article
42259
10.11646/zootaxa.4103.6.1
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Coenosia lucens
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1, 4–6
)
Type
material examined.
Holotype
male,
ANGOLA
: (A6), Tundavala, 9 mls. NW. Sa da Bandeira,
23.ii.1972
/ Southern African Exp., B.M. 1972-1.
Paratypes
, same labels as
holotype
:
10 males
(2
MNRJ
, 1
OUMNH
),
18 females
(1
MNRJ
, 1
OUMNH
);
5.ii.1972
,
4 females
; 8–10mls. NW Sa da Bandeira,
27–29.iii.1972
,
5 females
(1
MNRJ
); (A28) c. 6600’/
14 50’S
,
13 25’E
,
4–5.iii.1972
,
1 male
,
2 females
.
Diagnosis.
Ground-colour brown to dark brown, very shiny, with some grey pollinosity especially on pleura (
Fig. 1
); scutum when viewed from the front with sparse grey pollinosity on postpronotum and a median vitta before the suture, more or less covering the acrostichals; arista long; thorax with very few ground-setulae; dorsocentrals 1+3, the first three hair-like and the last (prescutellar) long and well-developed; the posterodorsal preapical seta on fore tibia, as long as the median posterior seta; sternite 5 “U”shaped; surstylus curved (not visible in dorsal view) with 2 spines at apex; distiphallus large and membranous.
Description.
Ground-colour brown to dark brown, very shiny, with some grey pollinosity especially on pleura (
Fig. 1
); scutum when viewed from the front with sparse grey pollinosity on postpronotum and a median vitta before the suture, more or less covering the acrostichals; head with frontal vitta brown to dark brown (some males with lunule light brown); ocellar triangle and fronto-orbital plate shiny brown; face, parafacial and gena grey pollinose; antenna dark brown, pedicel with grey pollinosity; arista and palpus brown; posterior part of head grey pollinose; scutum and scutellum entirely brown, shiny; notopleuron and all pleura grey dusted; calypters white; haltere pale yellow; wing clear; legs brown, shiny; abdomen brown, shiny, with grey pollinosity on syntergite 1+2 laterally and on epandrium.
Male
. Body length:
2.1–2.3 mm
; wing length:
2.2–2.4 mm
.
Head
. Eye bare; frons at vertex about one-third of head-width; frontal row with 4 pairs of fine setae, and 1 pair of reclinate orbitals; inner vertical and ocellar setae long and fine, similar in size; outer vertical very long and fine; antenna inserted at mid-level of eye, with postpedicel about 2.4–2.7 times the length of pedicel; arista long, with short, fine hairs on basal third; gena very narrow; palpus filiform.
Thorax
. With very few ground-setulae; acrostichal setulae very fine, in 2 rows, prescutellar pair not differentiated; dorsocentrals 1+3, the first three hair-like and the last (prescutellar) long and well-developed; postpronotum with fine hairs, without differentiated setae; 1 presutural and no postsutural intra-alar, 1 postsutural supra-alar; 1 postalar; prealar absent; notopleuron with 2 setae, similar in size; anepisternum with a series of 4 setae, the anterior and the posterior ones long; katepisternals 1+1+1, arranged in an equilateral triangle. Scutellum with 1 long basal and 1 long apical pair of setae and with fine hairs on disc.
FIGURES 1–9.
(1)
Coenosia lucens
sp. nov.
, male dorsal view; (2)
Coenosia flavohumeralis
sp. nov.
, male dorsal view; (3)
Coenosia setosa
sp. nov
.
, male, dorsal view. (4–6)
Coenosia lucens
sp. nov.
, male
: (4) sternite 5, dorsal view; (5) cercal plate, dorsal view; (6) aedeagal complex, lateral view; (7–9)
Coenosia flavohumeralis
sp. nov.
, male
: (7) sternite 5, dorsal view; (8) cercal plate and surstyli, dorsal view; (9) aedeagal complex, lateral view.
FIGURES 10–18.
(10–12)
Coenosia macrochaeta
(Emden)
, male: (10) sternite 5, dorsal view; (11) cercal plate and surstyli, dorsal view; (12) aedeagal complex, lateral view. (13–15)
Coenosia nodosa
Stein
, male: (13) sternite 5, dorsal view; (14) cercal plate, dorsal view; (15) aedeagal complex, lateral view. (16–18)
Coenosia
ochroprocta
(Speiser)
, male: (16) sternite 5, dorsal view; (17) cercal plate, dorsal view; (18) aedeagal complex, lateral view.
Legs
. Fore femur with a complete row of posterodorsal setae and 4 long, well-spaced posteroventral hairs on basal and middle thirds; fore tibia with a long posterior median seta, dorsal and posterodorsal preapicals, the latter as long as the median posterior seta, and 1 preapical posteroventral inserted basad relative to the other two; mid femur with 2 long anterior setae on middle third, 4 long well-spaced posteroventral hairs on basal and middle thirds and 2 posterior preapicals; mid tibia with 1 long median anterior and posterior setae, preapicals on anteroventral and posteroventral surfaces and 1 ventral apical; hind femur with an anterodorsal row of about 5 well-spaced setae and an anteroventral row with about 4 well-spaced setae; hind tibia with 1 long anterior and 1 longer posterodorsal above middle, 1 anterodorsal and one posterodorsal on apical third, the posterodorsal inserted slightly above the anterodorsal, apicals on ventral and anteroventral surfaces.
Wing
. Veins bare; veins M and R4+5 parallel at wing-tip; upper calypter very short and lower one long, about 4 times the length of the upper one; haltere with the knob large.
Abdomen
. Compressed ventrally; syntergite 1+2 with a row of lateral setae; tergites 3–5 each with 1 lateral pair of setae; tergite 5 with two median setae inserted close to the margin of tergite 4. Sternite 1 bare. Sternite 5 “U”shaped (
Fig. 4
).
Terminalia
. Cercal plate as in
Fig. 5
; surstylus curved with 2 spines at apex (
Fig. 6
). Aedeagal complex as in
Fig. 6
; distiphallus large and membranous.
Female
: Body length:
2.3–2.5 mm
; wing length:
2.4–2.5 mm
. Similar to male.
Etymology.
The specific name is from the Latin “
lucens
”, meaning “bright”, and refers to the shining general colour of the body.
Discussion.
This is a very peculiar species with a characteristic colour pattern and scutal chaetotaxy. It runs in Emden’s (1940) key to the
C. semifumosa
-group and within this group runs to
C. megalocalyptra
(Emden)
, which is also a very peculiar species with a very well developed lower calypter that reaches to third abdominal segment in male.
Geographical distribution.
Angola
.