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♁,
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, leg.
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(
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<paragraph id="8B93EC4FFFF5FF87378EFA2CFA967288" blockId="22.[151,1437,1359,1494]" pageId="22" pageNumber="323">Diagnosis: A sexually dimorphic species: black faced in the male, yellow in the female; frons projecting anteriorly; a pair of long divergent ocellars; anterior declivity of scutum yellow; mediotergite yellow.</paragraph>
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.
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: yellow except for black face and contiguous anterior 2/3 of frons, posterior third of frons brown; anterior 1/3 of gena also black; ocelli reddish on a yellow ocellar triangle; frons broad, at vertex about 0.5 width of head, narrowed anteriorly, at level of antennae about 0.7 width that at level of anterior ocellus; gena narrow in front, deeper behind, in profile, below middle of eye, about half height of eye, with several scattered white setulae; occiput in profile broadly visible behind eye except at posterior pole of eye, postocular setulae in one row; mouth parts all yellow; 2 vibrissal setulae poorly developed; face short, poorly sclerotized and depressed; median carina between antennae narrow; antenna with black basal flagellomere, pedicel brown with distinct short seta dorsally; arista yellow on basal 1/3, remainder black; chaetotaxy: 2 fronto-orbitals placed on posterior half of fronto-orbital plate, with 3 short setulae in front, 1 inner and 1 outer vertical, both strong; ocellars broken; paraverticals minute and divergent; 12 pairs of short postocellars; about 20 distinct pale setulae scattered on frons.
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: pale yellow; chaetotaxy: 1 postpronotal, 2 notopleural, 1 intrapostalar, 1 postalar, 2 dorsocentrals, anterior about 1/3 length of posterior, acrostichals in 8 irregular rows with 1 pair of developed prescutellars, 4 scutellars, 1 anepisternal, katepisternal at upper posterior corner missing (broken), and 3 setulae vertically down middle of sclerite.
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: veins all pale yellow; distance on costa between
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and
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about 0.5 that between
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and M; distance between cross veins about x2 length of posterior cross vein, which is about 0.4 length of apical section of vein Cu. Haltere pale yellow.
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: not modified except for numerous, thickened, pale, pecten-like setulae along ventral surface of hind basitarsomere; apico-ventral seta on mid tibia present and strong; claws black on apical 2/3; hind trochanter not modified.
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: all tergites yellow with numerous fine pale brown setulae especially along posterior margins, where the longer setulae are about half to 2/3 length of respective tergite.
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<emphasis id="B958305DFFF4FF86378EFE4AFEF17546" bold="true" box="[199,355,510,536]" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Hypopygium</emphasis>
: (
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), epandrium small and pale, bearing a small indistinct surstylar lobe; cerci small and pale; hypandrium distinct, long and broad, viewed dorsoventrally bearing a setulose pregonite posteriorly; phallapodeme long rod-like, postgonites short, apically spatulate and curved dorsomedially with a dense margin of microsetulae; distiphallus pale, weakly sclerotized and broad basally and narrow apical section shorter than broad basal section.
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: (
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) similar to male, but head entirely yellow and frons more setulose.
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male
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: the species epithet refers to the black face in the male.
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<emphasis id="B958305DFFF4FF86378EFD4EFEE8744A" bold="true" box="[199,378,762,788]" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Similar species</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B958305DFFF4FF8636C3FD4FFD8D744B" box="[394,543,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">T. nigrifacies</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a unique species in having a black-faced male. In most respects it is closest to
<emphasis id="B958305DFFF4FF8637F1FCABFD857467" box="[184,535,799,825]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">
<taxonomicName id="4C2C97CCFFF4FF8637F1FCABFECB7467" authorityName="Ebejer" authorityYear="2023" box="[184,345,799,825]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Tethysimyia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="324" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bonairensis">T. bonairensis</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C2C97CCFFF4FF8636D0FCABFD857467" authorityName="Ebejer" authorityYear="2023" box="[409,535,799,825]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Tethysimyia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="324" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="litophila">T. litophila</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
, the new species described above. The important differences are in the male hypopygium, where
<taxonomicName id="4C2C97CCFFF4FF8636CBFCF7FD8A7403" authorityName="Ebejer" authorityYear="2023" box="[386,536,835,861]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Tethysimyia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="324" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigrifacies">
<emphasis id="B958305DFFF4FF8636CBFCF7FD8A7403" box="[386,536,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">T. nigrifacies</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs in having a broader hypandrium when viewed dorsoventrally, a thicker phallapodeme; differently shaped postgonites that have a densely micro-setulose margin, and a relatively shorter and broader aedeagus.
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<emphasis id="B958305DFFF4FF86378EFC1AFECB7496" bold="true" box="[199,345,942,968]" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Distribution</emphasis>
: West Indies (
<collectingCountry id="F33BACDFFFF4FF8636B0FC1BFDFE7497" box="[505,620,943,969]" name="Dominica" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">Dominica</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F33BACDFFFF4FF86353EFC1BFCD17497" box="[631,835,943,969]" name="US Virgin Islands" pageId="23" pageNumber="324">US Virgin Islands</collectingCountry>
).
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