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Length (antenna to wing tip)
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. Color: Abdomen orange except tip of female oviscape and posterolateral corners of T24; thorax orange to yellow on ventral third; head and thorax otherwise mostly black to blueblack except as follows: gena, extreme anteroventral corner of face and parafacial silvery pruinose, palpus orangeyellow, margin of frontal vitta silvery pruinose, scutum with a broad silvery longitudinal strip on each side, postsutural part of silver strip with a central dark oval patch. Fore tarsus white to yellow with white setae, hind tarsus white with mostly white setae on tarsomeres 14, dark setae ventrally on tarsomeres 34, mixed white and brown setae dorsally on tarsomere 5; fore femur orange basally, black distally; mid and hind femora orange with narrow, variably indistinct preapical and apical dark bands. Fore tibia black, mid tibia and hind tibia brown to yellow.
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Male abdomen (described from photos of living flies and one male
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FIGURE 1AG
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A, thoraxabdomen junction to show pointed katatergite; B, live male (Rara Aves, Costa Rica; not captured); C, male; D, male terminalia, lateral; E, spermatheca and associated structures, lateral; F, head; G, female; female thorax and abdomen.
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N of Colonia Palmareña,
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, I. Curso.
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, A. Solis (
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, Malaise, G. Rodriguez (1 ♀,
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); Guanacaste, Pitilla station,
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S Santa Cecilia,
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, P.Ríos (1 ♀,
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).
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(photo but no specimen,
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, Heredia, Rara Aves Nat. Res.,
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S Las Horquetas, 10˚1700”N, 84˚0250”W,
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, S.A.
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(
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. The specific name of
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refers sharply bicolored body in which the thorax is orange below and dark above, and in which the dark upper thorax contrasts with the reddish abdomen.
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