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<mods:title>New species of Gymnochiromyia Hendel, 1933 (Diptera: Schizophora: Chyromyidae) from Southern Africa</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Ebejer, M. J.</mods:namePart>
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Genus
<taxonomicName ID-CoL="4RSN" ID-ENA="716637" authority="Hendel, 1933" authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" box="[487,839,1389,1414]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[487,680,1389,1413]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="HENDEL, F." box="[688,839,1389,1414]" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" pagination="39 - 56" refId="ref17749" refString="HENDEL, F. 1933. Neue acalyptrate Musciden aus der palaarktischen Region (Dipt.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1933: 39 - 56." type="journal article" year="1933">Hendel, 1933</bibRefCitation>
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<treatmentCitation author="HENDEL, F." box="[144,464,1427,1447]" page="43" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" year="1933">
<taxonomicName ID-CoL="4RSN" authority="Hendel, 1933: 43" authorityName="Hendel" authorityPageNumber="43" authorityYear="1933" box="[144,464,1427,1447]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[144,301,1427,1447]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation author="HENDEL, F." box="[306,464,1427,1447]" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" pagination="39 - 56" refId="ref17749" refString="HENDEL, F. 1933. Neue acalyptrate Musciden aus der palaarktischen Region (Dipt.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1933: 39 - 56." type="journal article" year="1933">Hendel, 1933: 43</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<typeStatus box="[473,518,1427,1447]" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Type</typeStatus>
species:
<taxonomicName authority="Becker, 1904" authorityName="Becker" authorityYear="1904" box="[600,892,1427,1447]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Peletohila" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minima">
<emphasis box="[600,767,1427,1447]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Peletohila minima</emphasis>
Becker, 1904
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<paragraph blockId="5.[144,1104,1427,1471]" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">
(=
<taxonomicName authority="Zetterstedt, 1848" authorityName="Zetterstedt" authorityYear="1848" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Antophilina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="flavella">
<emphasis box="[923,1104,1427,1447]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Antophilina flavella</emphasis>
Zetterstedt, 1848
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), by designation of Hendel.
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Diagnosis: The following combination of characters not previously noted by earlier workers separates
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" box="[353,546,1520,1544]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[353,546,1520,1544]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with greater confidence from other genera in the family. The
<emphasis box="[281,321,1552,1576]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">ocp</emphasis>
is flat or concave when viewed from above. This character is shared with other genera including
<taxonomicName authorityName="Becker" authorityYear="1903" box="[466,620,1584,1608]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Aphaniosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[466,620,1584,1608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Aphaniosoma</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but not
<taxonomicName authorityName="Robineau-Desvoidy" authorityYear="1830" box="[724,840,1584,1608]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Chyromya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[724,840,1584,1608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Chyromya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The disc of the
<emphasis box="[1036,1076,1584,1608]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">ocp</emphasis>
is entirely or largely bare, quite unlike
<taxonomicName authorityName="Robineau-Desvoidy" authorityYear="1830" box="[542,658,1616,1640]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Chyromya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="81" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[542,658,1616,1640]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Chyromya</emphasis>
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which is strongly setose. Only
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Aphaniosoma</emphasis>
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has an intrahumeral seta or setula and this is usually incurved.
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<emphasis box="[910,1103,1648,1672]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="81">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
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usually has no
<emphasis box="[347,386,206,230]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pra</emphasis>
and no posterior
<emphasis box="[579,601,206,230]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">ia</emphasis>
; these are present separately or together in some other genera.
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" box="[327,516,238,262]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[327,516,238,262]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
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has oval eyes with the longest axis positioned horizontally or only slightly obliquely (
<taxonomicName authorityName="Robineau-Desvoidy" authorityYear="1830" box="[487,603,270,294]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Chyromya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[487,603,270,294]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Chyromya</emphasis>
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has round eyes;
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<emphasis box="[795,949,270,294]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Aphaniosoma</emphasis>
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and undescribed genera have very obliquely placed oval eyes). The frons in most species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
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protrudes above the antennae so that it is clearly visible in profile, often markedly so and thus, in most species, the head is longer above than it is below. In
<taxonomicName authorityName="Becker" authorityYear="1903" box="[181,335,398,422]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Aphaniosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[181,335,398,422]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Aphaniosoma</emphasis>
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, an apicoventral seta on the mid tibia is always clearly longer than the diameter of the tibia at apex. This seta may be present in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Frey" authorityYear="1958" box="[834,985,430,454]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Somatiosoma" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[834,985,430,454]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Somatiosoma</emphasis>
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and a closely related undescribed genus, but it does not exceed the diameter of the tibia and is generally less conspicuous. It is absent in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Robineau-Desvoidy" authorityYear="1830" box="[546,662,494,518]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Chyromya" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[546,662,494,518]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Chyromya</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" box="[718,911,494,518]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[718,911,494,518]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. There are only two exceptions to this combination of character states. In the species treated below,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Ebejer" authorityYear="2008" box="[181,337,558,583]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pretoriella">
<emphasis box="[181,201,558,582]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[218,337,558,582]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pretoriella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[397,417,558,582]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">G</emphasis>
.
<emphasis box="[434,583,558,582]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">maculipennis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have a weak
<emphasis box="[747,786,558,582]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pra</emphasis>
(in the latter species it is only present in the
<typeStatus box="[336,439,590,615]" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">holotype</typeStatus>
). None of the Palaearctic species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" box="[835,1028,590,614]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[835,1028,590,614]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a
<emphasis box="[1096,1135,590,614]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pra</emphasis>
. In all other respects these two species fit in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Hendel" authorityYear="1933" box="[671,864,622,646]" class="Insecta" family="Chyromyidae" genus="Gymnochiromyia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[671,864,622,646]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Gymnochiromyia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="6.[181,321,665,690]" box="[181,321,665,690]" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Description:</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[181,1142,706,1115]" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">
<emphasis box="[181,242,706,730]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Head</emphasis>
(
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): Predominantly yellow,
<emphasis box="[610,629,706,730]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">fr</emphasis>
protruding beyond anterior eye margin, sides converging towards antennae; gena wide with rounded lower margin, vibrissal angle poorly differentiated; face depressed, poorly sclerotised, except for a narrow median line, carina never properly developed although this sclerotised median line may give the impression in some specimens that a shallow carina exists;
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flat to concave when viewed from above, in profile usually barely visible behind eye margin, on lower part, behind gena with a distinct pale seta directed downwards; chaetotaxy: 3 welldeveloped
<emphasis box="[302,341,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">orb</emphasis>
, anterior inclinate; 1 strong
<emphasis box="[650,678,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">vti</emphasis>
and 1 strong
<emphasis box="[825,858,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">vte</emphasis>
,
<emphasis box="[870,896,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">oc</emphasis>
divergent,
<emphasis box="[1019,1053,930,954]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pvt</emphasis>
distinct and convergent or crossed;
<emphasis box="[495,514,962,986]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">fr</emphasis>
, across middle, often with very fine pale setulae, short setulae also on post
<emphasis box="[419,445,994,1018]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">oc</emphasis>
margin, but none on disc of
<emphasis box="[789,829,994,1018]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">ocp</emphasis>
; gena finely, but distinctly setulose; 2 to 3 short vibrissal setulae. Antenna with round third segment, first and second segments short, latter with seta dorsally; arista 3-segmented, usually bare, sometimes very short pubescent.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[181,1142,1131,1668]" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">
<emphasis box="[181,262,1132,1156]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Thorax</emphasis>
: Ground colour predominantly yellow;
<emphasis box="[712,757,1132,1156]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">msn</emphasis>
with or without stripes;
<emphasis box="[1034,1076,1132,1156]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">mtn</emphasis>
often dark; pleura sometimes with brown on
<emphasis box="[619,659,1164,1188]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">stpl</emphasis>
and
<emphasis box="[713,761,1164,1188]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">hypl</emphasis>
; chaetotaxy: 12
<emphasis box="[961,989,1164,1188]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">hu</emphasis>
, 1
<emphasis box="[1023,1084,1164,1188]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">psthu</emphasis>
, 0+1 to 1+4
<emphasis box="[260,286,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">dc</emphasis>
,
<emphasis box="[300,348,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">acrs</emphasis>
in 48 rows with a strong prescut pair, 1
<emphasis box="[809,834,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">sa</emphasis>
and 1
<emphasis box="[908,936,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pa</emphasis>
, 2
<emphasis box="[970,1014,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">ntpl</emphasis>
,
<emphasis box="[1027,1049,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">ia</emphasis>
and
<emphasis box="[1103,1142,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">pra</emphasis>
usually absent, if a posterior
<emphasis box="[508,530,1228,1252]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">ia</emphasis>
present this is always shorter than prescutellar
<emphasis box="[1064,1112,1228,1252]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">acrs</emphasis>
; 1
<emphasis box="[181,234,1260,1284]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">mspl</emphasis>
at middle of hind margin and 1
<emphasis box="[583,623,1260,1284]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">stpl</emphasis>
at upper posterior corner, pteropleurals absent.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[181,1142,1131,1668]" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">
Wing (
<figureCitation box="[255,317,1291,1316]" captionStart="Fig" captionStartId="5.[304,337,597,617]" captionTargetBox="[251,1006,204,577]" captionTargetId="figure-277@5.[251,1008,203,577]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="Fig. 1. Gymnochiromyia maculiventris sp. n., wing. Scale bar = 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7649429" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7649429/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
): Hyaline (pigmented patch in one species), uniformly microtrichose except for basal half of subcostal cell; costa broken at weakly sclerotised humeral crossvein and at R 1; subcosta merges with R 1 just before this reaches costa; veins R 4+5 and M 1+2 parallel to wing margin or very slightly convergent; costa ends almost exactly at end of vein R 4+5; costal setulae very short and of uniform length, sometimes a few setulae are longer than others at base of wing along anterior edge just before R 1 merges with costa; mixed in randomly amongst the pale costal setulae are darker and thicker setulae appearing as minute spines, reminiscent of the costa of
<taxonomicName box="[778,942,1515,1540]" class="Insecta" family="Heleomyzidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="82" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Heleomyzidae</taxonomicName>
; 612 dark setulae set at intervals along dorsal aspect of costa between R 1 and apex of R 2+3.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="6.[181,1142,1131,1668]" pageId="6" pageNumber="82">Legs: Yellow and short setulose except front femur where longer posterodorsal and posteroventral setae may be present; mid tibia never with long apicoventral seta; claws black in apical half or more, pulvilli normal.</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[144,250,206,230]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">Abdomen</emphasis>
: Predominantly yellow in most species; sparse short setulose on all segments; tergites well sclerotised;
<emphasis box="[426,445,238,262]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">st</emphasis>
from poorly sclerotised to wholly membraneous and very thinly and microscopically setulose.
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Male postabdomen:
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6 distinct from
<emphasis box="[583,609,302,326]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">ep</emphasis>
, but narrower than
<emphasis box="[836,858,302,326]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">tg</emphasis>
5 and ventral margin may be narrowed almost to a point; pregenital
<emphasis box="[663,682,334,358]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">st</emphasis>
not modified;
<emphasis box="[845,883,334,358]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">prg</emphasis>
always distinct and most often distinctly setulose, fused to hypandrium or joined to it by a short membrane, never with an intermediate sclerite;
<emphasis box="[540,579,398,422]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">psg</emphasis>
and
<emphasis box="[631,708,398,422]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">bac scl</emphasis>
not always discernible, but in those species where these structures have been identified, they are small and simple when compared to other genera;
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often sclerotised and tubule to basiphallus sometimes visible; distiphallus usually large and of complicated structure, mostly membranous, but with several sclerotised plates; cercus always small, narrowly separated and finely setulose; surstylus usually separated from
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.
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Female postabdomen: Segment 8 with only
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sclerotised and in most species this is divided into two lateral plates; subanal plate (
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) present, small, poorly sclerotised and often with very fine setulae on minute papillae; supra-anal plate not developed; 2 small (
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) spermathecae dark coloured (grey, brown or black) lying deep to lateral aspect of
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6 or 7; spermathecal ducts not sclerotised or pigmented.
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<emphasis box="[144,222,758,782]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="83">Length</emphasis>
:
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and
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2.2 mm
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; wing 1.22.0 mm.
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