Review of Neotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae)
Author
Disney, R. H. L.
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-05-19
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1772.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1772.1.1
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Chonocephalus alzadae
sp. nov.
(
Figs 2–5
)
The name refers to the late Alzada Kistner who, with her husband David, collected the
type
series. Her book (1998) about the hazards and rewards of entomological field work in the tropics is highly recommended.
Male. Postpedicels longer than greatest breadth. Ventral face of left side of hypandrium as
Fig. 2
. Left gonopod as
Fig. 5
. Tip of right gonopod as
Fig. 3
. The left hypandrial lobe long and the right is shorter and two branched (
Fig. 4
). Wing 1.0–
1.1 mm
long. Costal index 0.53–0.54. Vein 3 with a terminal vesicle which extends beyond tip of costa. All tibiae are brown.
Material.
Holotype
male,
Brazil
,
Rondônia
,
Fazenda Rancho Grande
, nr
Cacaulandia
,
28 December 1995
,
D. H. & A. C. Kistner
(
CUMZ
, 31-4)
.
Paratypes
,
3 males
as
holotype
(except one in Kistner Collection).