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<mods:title>Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Brown, Brian V.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:title>Biodiversity Data Journal</mods:title>
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<mods:date>2016</mods:date>
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<mods:number>4</mods:number>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7715</mods:url>
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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7715</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1314-2828-4-7715</mods:identifier>
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<treatment LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:EDD6FFC99F68C64BF73D46F4FE3A2842" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/EDD6FFC99F68C64BF73D46F4FE3A2842" lastPageNumber="7715" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:D20C44D2-00C4-457F-945A-95461C290F15" class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Melaloncha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melaloncha (Udamochiras) nielsi" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nielsi" subGenus="Udamochiras">Melaloncha (Udamochiras) nielsi</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Materials</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation collectingDate="2004-11-8/18" collectingMethod="Arm. Suspensa" collectionCode="LACM" collectorName="A. Henriques" country="Brazil" location="Brazil" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" specimenCode="LACM ENT 335989" specimenCount="1" typeStatus="Holotype">
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Type status:
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<typeStatus pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Holotype</typeStatus>
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. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
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<specimenCode pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">LACM ENT 335989</specimenCode>
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; recordedBy:
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<collectorName pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">A. Henriques</collectorName>
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; sex:
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<specimenType pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">female</specimenType>
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; lifeStage:
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<specimenType pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">adult</specimenType>
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; Location: country:
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<collectingCountry pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Brazil</collectingCountry>
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; stateProvince: AM; verbatimLocality: Manaus, Reserva Ducke,
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Igarapé">Igarape</normalizedToken>
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Barro Branco; locationRemarks: 20m above forest floor; Event: samplingProtocol:
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<collectingMethod pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Arm. Suspensa</collectingMethod>
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; eventDate: 2004-11-8/18; verbatimEventDate:
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<collectingDate pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" value="2004-11-8/18">08-18.xi.2004</collectingDate>
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; Record Level: institutionID: INPA; ownerInstitutionCode: INPA; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
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</materialsCitation>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Description</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Female (Figs 5, 6, 7). Body length approximately 3.8 mm. Frons orange, except ocellar triangle black; sculpturing finely reticulate with numerous lateral punctures, most bearing setae. Frons 0.22 head width. Dorsal interfrontal setae absent. Flagellomere 1 yellow. Palpus yellow, with black setae. Dorsal postocular setae black; genal and other postocular setae black. Thorax mostly black. Anterior scutellar seta long, thin, posterior scutellar seta extremely long. Legs brown, mid- and hind legs dark brown. Foretibia with irregular dorsal bare area. Foretarsomeres missing from both legs. Claws visible only on one hind leg, apically bifurcate. Costa 0.61 wing length. Wing vein R2+3 absent. Halter brown. Abdominal tergites brown with silvery iridescence. Venter of abdomen gray. Oviscape black, with dense, strong black setae basally, dorsally, and ventrally; apically laterally flattened, dorsal surface curved ventrally, ventral surface straight.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Diagnosis</paragraph>
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Large dark species with oviscape densely setose at base, laterally flattened, dorsal surface curved ventrally. In the key to species (
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<bibRefCitation author="Brown, Brian V." journalOrPublisher="Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" pagination="1 - 42" title="Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Metopininae)" volume="140" year="2004">Brown 2004a</bibRefCitation>
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),
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. nielsi" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" rank="species" species="nielsi">M. nielsi</taxonomicName>
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comes closest to
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. valeria" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" rank="species" species="valeria">M. valeria</taxonomicName>
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Brown, from which it differs by the dense black setae (absent from
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<taxonomicName lsidName="M. valeria" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" rank="species" species="valeria">M. valeria</taxonomicName>
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) and greatly compressed structure of the oviscape. It does not resemble any of the more recently described species of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Melaloncha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melaloncha (Udamochiras)" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Udamochiras">Melaloncha (Udamochiras)</taxonomicName>
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(
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<bibRefCitation author="Gonzalez, Lisa" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" pagination="1 - 14" title="New species and records of Melaloncha (Udamochiras) bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae)." volume="730" year="2004">Gonzalez and Brown 2004</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation author="Brown, B. V." journalOrPublisher="Sociobiology" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" pagination="715 - 722" title="Three new species of parasitoid Phoridae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region" volume="54" year="2009">Brown 2009</bibRefCitation>
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,
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<bibRefCitation author="Braet, Y." journalOrPublisher="Bulletin de la Societe royale belge d'Entomologie" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" pagination="89 - 91" title="First record of Melaloncha (Udamochiras) bee-killing flies from French Guiana with description of a new species (Diptera: Phoridae)" volume="149" year="2013">Braet 2013</bibRefCitation>
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).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Etymology</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Named for Niels Jensen at the request of Sara Jensen, a supporter of the Entomology Department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Distribution</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Brazil</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" type="ecology">
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7715">Ecology</paragraph>
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Unknown, but presumably parasitoids of stingless bees like most other
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Phoridae" genus="Melaloncha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melaloncha" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="7715" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Melaloncha</taxonomicName>
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species.
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</treatment>
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