Diversity of Lygistorrhina (Probolaeus) Williston, 1896 (Diptera: Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhininae) of Mitaraka (French Guiana), with descriptions of three new species
Author
Blagoderov, Vladimir
National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh (United Kingdom) Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London (United Kingdom) v. blagoderov @ nms. ac. uk (corresponding author)
Author
Pollet, Marc
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Herman Teirlinckgebouw, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium); and Entomology Unit, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium)
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Zoosystema
2020
2020-12-08
42
30
593
606
journal article
9349
10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a30
761e959f-fbe6-4906-861d-1df09f331e52
1638-9387
4321222
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5A4A8B27-2249-4EB6-8BF6-DEAD26E4A2F9
Lygistorrhina
(
Probolaeus
)
cerqueirai
Lane, 1958
(
Fig. 5
)
Lygistorrhina cerqueirai
Lane, 1958: 209
.
REMARK
The species was described by J. Lane based on a single male specimen. During the senior author’s visit to MZUSP in 2010, the
holotype
of the species was studied and photographed. Below is an emended description.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
Holotype
.
Brazil
•
♂
;
Amazonas
,
Igarapé de Mariano
;
21.XI.1955
;
Elias
and
Rappe
coll.;
MZUSP
.
EMENDED DESCRIPTION
Male
Head.
Palpus ¾× as long as proboscis, rather densely setose; setae about as long as proboscis width. Median ocellus slightly anteriad of lateral ocelli, half the diameter of the latter; lateral ocelli semicircular. Flagellomeres bacilliform, about 3× as long as wide, each with single prominent dark seta near apex.
Thorax (
Fig. 5C, D
)
. Laterotergite with 16-17 setae; mediotergite with 6 setae; antepronotum with 5 setae; proepisternum with 6 setae. Mesonotum with short setae forming indistinct dorsocentral and acrostichal rows; with long setae in supra-alar rows and in posterior quarter of mesonotum.
Wing (
Fig. 5B
)
. Costa extends beyond R
5
to more than ½ of distance between R
5
and M
1
; M
1
and CuA sinuous.
Terminalia (
Fig. 5E, F
)
. Tergite 9 ovoid, entirely setose, with dense patch of strong spines on apex. Gonostyli parallelsided, slightly curved inwards, with an apical scoop-shaped tooth. Gonocoxal apodemes heavily sclerotised.