New World species of Asymphyloptera Collin (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4048
4
553
564
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.6
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1175-5326
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Asymphyloptera mexicana
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 16
)
Type
material
.
HOLOTYPE
, ♂ labelled: “Above Oaxaca/ Oaxaca, Mex/
May 20, 1963
”; “H.E. Robinson/ Collector”; “
HOLOTYPE
/
Asymphyloptera
/
mexicana
/ Sinclair [red label] [dissected]” (
USNM
).
Recognition
. This is a dark brown species with long ventral setae on the fore femur and hind tibia; narrow, tapered surstylus with pointed apex; apex of phallus expanded, membranous and strongly bent anteriorly.
Description
.
Male
. Postpedicel globular with long, slender apical extension, arising subapically. Ocellar setae stout, similar in length to postpedicel extension. Labrum slightly shorter than clypeus; palpus brown, subequal to labrum, tapered to slender apex.
Pleura dark brown with thin bluish pruinescence. Chaetotaxy very stout; 1 pprn short, very slender; 2 npl, lower slender and shorter; 4 dc, anterior dc offset; 2 apical sctl, 1.25X longer than prescutellar dc, lacking lateral sctl. Legs dark brown; fore femur with long antero- and posteroventral rows of pale, slender setae, longer than width of femur; fore tibia with biserial row of erect setae; hind tibia with long ventral setae, longer than width of tibia. Wing length
1.8 mm
; crossvein h distinct; base of wing with slender setulae along posterior margin. Halter brown.
Male terminalia (
Fig. 16
): Cercus with anterior lobe not produced; posterior lobe long, slender. Hypandrium prolonged as broad, paired postgonites; apical margin of postgonite extended anteriorly, with beak-like apex. Epandrium narrow, with elongate setae on apical half. Surstylus shorter than cercus, slender, arched, tapered to pointed apex; not extending beyond phallus. Phallus straight; apex expanded, membranous, strongly bent anteriorly; apical margin rounded; ejaculatory apodeme narrow, not expanded.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution
. Known only from the
holotype
, in the state of Oaxaca,
Mexico
(
Fig. 17
).
Remarks
. The apex of the phallus is very similar to that of
A. havasu
sp. nov.
, but the apex is not hooked and the postgonites have a beak-like, anteriorly-directed apex.