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Wheeler
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Diagnosis: Very large (
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)
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with extensively setulose body and reduced setae, especially on the head; weak, broad facial carina; broad, rugose gena.
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Description:
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,
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. Head about as high as deep in lateral view; frontal triangle distinct, bare except for row of setulae along margin; frons densely setulose, most cephalic setae short and weak, fronto-orbital, vertical, ocellar and postocellar setae barely differentiated from surrounding setulae, ocellar and postocellar setae convergent; eye bare, rounded; gena broad, swollen, divided into densely pruinose dorsal region and broader, shining, rugose ventral region, postgena swollen, setulose (
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); vibrissal angle not projecting, vibrissa short; face with broad but weak carina between antennal bases, less pronounced ventrally (
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); antenna with scape and pedicel short, first flagellomere rounded, arista pubescent; proboscis short; palpus elongate, swollen (
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).
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Scutum convex, densely setulose, thoracic setae weak, 1 postpronotal, 1 anterior and 12 posterior notopleural, 1 postsutural supra-alar, 1 postsutural intra-alar, 1 dorsocentral seta; scutellum short, strongly convex, with long, dense lateral and dorsal setae, apical and subapical scutellar setae longer and stronger than surrounding setae; thoracic pleurites bare except for dorsal patch of setulae on katepisternum. Wing hyaline but heavily microtrichose, alula and anal angle well-developed, cell c long and broad, especially in male, second costal sector longer than third; crossvein r-m beyond midpoint of cell dm; crossvein dm-cu perpendicular or slightly oblique; pronounced ventral bulge at wing base (
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). Legs without outstanding setae or spurs; femoral organ not differentiated from surrounding setulae; tibial organ elongate oval, dark, velvety.
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Abdominal tergites with long, dense setae; sternites narrow but distinct, with long setae; male spiracles
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membrane near lateral margin of tergite.
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Male postabdomen: remnant of sternite 6 median, symmetrical, represented by a pair of sensory setulae and a patch of microtrichia distinct from surrounding membrane; sensory setulae of sternite 7 present posterior to this (
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); dorsal pregenital sclerite large, symmetrical, divided by a transverse suture into narrow anterior and broad posterior portions, posterior portion densely setose; spiracles 6 and
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membrane ventral to lateral margin of dorsal sclerite; epandrium simple, convex, with short setae; surstylus simple, elongate, freely articulated with epandrium; hypandrium open posteriorly; pregonite fused with postgonite, sclerotized; postgonite with ventral setulae and campaniform sensillae; basiphallus elongate, sclerotized, distiphallus short, membranous; phallapodeme simple, phallic guide well sclerotized, fused anteriorly with hypandrium (
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); cerci broad, flat, setulose; subepandrial sclerite well-developed, with setulose lobe dorsomedial to surstyli (
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).
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<paragraph id="601236E6DE01385EFF28093F9AD8C4EE" blockId="1.[151,1437,458,2016]" box="[198,1235,1662,1688]" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Female terminalia not modified, cerci separate, dorsoventrally flattened, broad, setulose.</paragraph>
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Etymology: The generic name is an anagram of Monteverde, the
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locality of the
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species. It is treated as masculine.
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Remarks:
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<emphasis id="52D9EAF4DE01385EFEAF09BF9FC6C561" box="[321,461,1790,1815]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Medeventor</emphasis>
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appears to be most closely related to the Old World genera
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Meigen
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and
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<emphasis id="52D9EAF4DE01385EFF7908679F20C549" box="[151,299,1830,1855]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="48">Pseudeurina</emphasis>
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de Meijere (
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,
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). These three genera share an extensively setulose body, large size, a broad rugose gena and a broad facial carina (less developed in
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). However,
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cannot be accommodated in either of those genera without significantly modifying their current limits, and the autapomorphic characters of the
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species justify erection of a new genus.
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The male postabdomen of
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is atypical in that ventral, symmetrical remnants of sternites 6 and 7 are present. In the subfamily
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, sternites 6 and 7 are often retained, but are usually asymmetrical, as is the case with many other families of acalyptrate
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Diptera (
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)
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. The reduction and loss of sternites 6 and 7, and the secondary symmetry of the postabdomen are apparently apomorphic for
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plus
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(e.g.,
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). Although the postabdomen is symmetrical in
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, the distinct remnant of sternite 6 is unusual among
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.
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