taxonID	type	description	language	source
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 781 F 2 D 21 - 1598 - 4 DF 0 - A 826 - 5610248 E 772 D Figs 1 – 2	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Male: head without proclinate orbital setae; wings with vein R 1 setulose; terminalia with epandrium orange (Fig. 2 D), basiphallus and distiphallus distinctly separated by a dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 1 C), and vesica with a superior and inferior projection, the inferior one with a serrated margin (Fig. 1 C – D).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	etymology	Etymology The species epithet ‘ obscura ’, from Latin and treated as an adjective, refers to the dark phallic structures.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype ARGENTINA • ♂, terminalia dissected and stored in a microvial with glycerin; “ Argentina: Pr. [Province] Catamarca / Cuesta Minas Capillitas / 3000 m Pastizal J. L. Neff / # refers to host & date. [printed on white paper] // 84573 [printed on white paper] // Collection of the / CALIFORNIA ACADEMY / OF SCIENCES San / Francisco Calif. [printed on white paper] // Microcerella / sp. / T. Pape det. 1987 [handwritten, with T. Pape det. printed] // HOLOTYPE [printed on red paper] // Microcerella obscura sp. nov. / Santos, Mello-Patiu, / Couri & Mulieri 2025 ” [handwritten on white paper] // CASENT / 8451106 [printed on white paper] ”; CASENT 8451106; CAS.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	description	Description Male (n = 1) MEASUREMENTS. Length: 9 mm. HEAD. Parafacial, fronto-orbital plate and postocular orbit dark brown with silver pruinosity (Fig. 2 A – C); facial ridge with few setae on lower ¼; parafacial with row of setulae close to eye, similar in size to subvibrissal setae; frons about 0.27 × head width at level of ocellar triangle; frontal vitta blackish (Fig. 2 B – C); 7 – 9 well-developed frontal setae reaching level of apex of pedicel; rows of frontal setae parallel except anteriormost 3 divergent; reclinate orbital seta present, proclinate orbital setae absent; ocellar setae as developed as upper frontals; [outer vertical seta broken]; gena and genal groove with silvery pruinosity (Fig. 2 A, C); gena with black setae; postgena silvery-gray pruinose with black setae; antenna black (Fig. 2 A, C); first flagellomere approximately 1.5 × as long as pedicel; arista short pubescent on basal half (Fig. 2 C); palpus blackish (Fig. 2 A, C). THORAX. Dark brown with silver pruinosity (Fig. 2 A – B); chaetotaxy: acrostichals 0 +? [pin inserted in the middle], dorsocentrals 2 + 3, intra-alars 1 + 2, supra-alars 1 + 3, postpronotals 3, notopleurals 4; postalar wall bare; postalar callus with 2 setae; scutellum with pair of basal and pair of subapical setae, pair of discal setae and without apical setae; katepisternum with 3 setae almost in straight line; meral setae 5; proepisternum bare. WING. Hyaline, with dark brown veins (Fig. 2 A – B); tegula dark brown; basicosta yellowish; vein R 4 + 5 with setulae dorsally at basal ⅔ of distance to crossvein r-m; vein R 1 setulose; cell r 4 + 5 open at wing margin; costal spine differentiated; third costal sector bare ventrally. LEGS. Blackish-brown, pulvilli yellowish-brown (Fig. 2 A); mid femur with 2 median anterior setae, row of anteroventral setae, 2 preapical posterior setae, row of posteroventral setae, and without ctenidium; mid tibia with 2 median anterior setae, 2 median posterior setae and 2 posterior setae in apical third; hind trochanter without ventromedian pad of short, spiniform setae. ABDOMEN. Dark brown with silvery-gray pruinosity and slightly yellowish pruinosity laterally (Fig. 2 A); T 4 with pair of median marginal setae and pair of lateral marginal setae; T 5 with row of marginal setae; ST 2 – 4 with marginal setae slightly more developed than discal setae; ST 5 with membranous window, arms approximately 2.5 × of base length, and dense setae pattern. TERMINALIA. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 and apex of phallus black, other structures orange (Fig. 2 D); cercus with numerous long setae in basal half and short and sparse setae in apical half; cercal prongs divergent dorsally and rounded (Fig. 1 A – B); surstylus clavate, with long apical setae (Fig. 1 B); pregonite straight, almost same length as postgonite (Fig. 1 C); postgonite with apex pointed and curved and a short seta inserted on anterior margin near base (Fig. 1 C); postgonal apodeme short and rectangular (Fig. 1 C); basiphallus and distiphallus distinctly separated by dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 1 C); paraphallus with ventro-apical projection (Fig. 1 C); vesica with superior and an inferior projection, inferior one with serrated margin (Fig. 1 C – D); juxta distinctly separated from paraphallus (Fig. 1 C – D); acrophallus formed by median stylus, median process, and pair of lateral styli (Fig. 1 C – D); median stylus almost straight, median process tubular and lateral stylus curved (Fig. 1 C – D). Female Unknown.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	discussion	Remarks Microcerella obscura sp. nov. is morphologically similar to M. austrohartigia Pape, 1990, and M. multidentata (Lopes, 1981). These three species can be separated by the configuration of the serrated margin of the inferior projection of the vesica, which in M. obscura has different-sized serrations and is inserted almost in a straight line (Fig. 1 C – D), in M. multidentata it also has different-sized serrations but is inserted in a pointed projection (Lopes 1981: figs 60 – 61), and in M. austrohartigia it has similar-sized serrations and is inserted almost in a straight line (Lopes 1981: figs 46 – 49).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC73FFF9C0757E214D78F5D72.taxon	distribution	Distribution Argentina (Catamarca).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 6 A 42 AA 93 - EAA 7 - 433 A- 8 CA 7 - EF 8 F 720015 F 8 Figs 3 – 4	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Male: head with 1 proclinate orbital seta; wings with vein R 1 bare or with 1 – 2 setae; terminalia with epandrium orange (Fig. 4 D), basiphallus and distiphallus distinctly separated by a dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 3 D), and vesica with a superior and inferior projection, the superior one bifurcated in ventral view and the inferior one with a pointed projection (Fig. 3 D – E).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	etymology	Etymology The species epithet ‘ desertum ’, treated as a noun in apposition, refers to the Atacama Desert, the type locality of the new species.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype CHILE • ♂, terminalia dissected and glued to a small piece of cardboard pinned under the specimen; “ Chile, Atacama Prov. [Province] / 8 km N. Estancia Cas- / tilla, 30. VI. 1966 / Mike E. Irwin & / Nelson Hitchins O. / Cal. Acad. Sci. Coll. [printed on white paper] // HOLOTYPE [printed on red paper] // Microcerella desertum sp. nov. / Santos, Mello-Patiu, / Couri & Mulieri 2025 [handwritten on white paper] // CASENT / 8451925 [printed on white paper] ”; CASENT 8451925; CAS. Paratypes CHILE • 1 ♂, with left fore and mid leg glued to a small piece of cardboard and exposed terminalia; same data as for holotype; MNRJ • 1 ♂, with left fore and mid leg glued to a small piece of cardboard, right foreleg lost and abdomen dissected and stored in a microvial with glycerin pinned under the specimen; same data as for holotype; CASENT 8451940; CAS.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	description	Description Male (n = 3) MEASUREMENTS. Length: 6 – 8 mm. HEAD. Parafacial, fronto-orbital plate and postocular orbit dark brown with silvery pruinosity (Fig. 4 A – C); facial ridge with setae on lower quarter; parafacial with sparse setulae close to eye, 2 similar in size to subvibrissal setae; frons about 0.36 – 0.38 x head width at level of ocellar triangle; frontal vitta blackish (Fig. 4 C); 8 – 12 well-developed frontal setae reaching level of apex of pedicel; rows of frontal setae parallel except anteriormost 3 – 6 divergent; reclinate orbital seta present, 1 proclinate orbital seta present; ocellar setae as developed as upper frontals; outer vertical seta 1.5 × as long as postocular setae; gena and genal groove with silver pruinosity (Fig. 4 C); gena with black setae; postgena silvery-gray pruinose with black setae; antenna black (Figs 4 A, 4 C); first flagellomere approximately 2 × as long as pedicel; arista micropubescent on basal half (Fig. 4 C); palpus blackish (Figs 4 A, 4 C). THORAX. Dark brown with silvery pruinosity (Fig. 4 A – B); chaetotaxy: acrostichals 0 + 0, dorsocentrals 3 + 3, intra-alars 1 + 2, supra-alars 1 + 3, postpronotals 3, notopleurals 4; postalar wall bare; postalar callus with 2 setae; scutellum with pair of basal and pair of subapical setae, pair of apical setae present or absent, and pair of discal setae present or absent; katepisternum with 3 setae almost in straight line; meral setae 5 – 7; proepisternum bare. WING. Hyaline, with dark brown veins (Fig. 4 A – B); tegula dark brown; basicosta yellowish; vein R 4 + 5 with setulae dorsally at basal ⅔ of distance to crossvein r-m; vein R 1 bare or with 1 – 2 setae; cell r 4 + 5 open at wing margin; costal spine differentiated; third costal sector bare ventrally. LEGS. Blackish-brown, pulvilli yellowish-brown (Fig. 4 A); mid femur with 3 median anterior setae, row of anteroventral setae, 2 preapical posterior setae, row of posteroventral setae, and without ctenidium; mid tibia with 2 median anterior setae, 2 median posterior setae and 2 posterior setae in apical third; hind trochanter without ventromedian pad of short, spiniform setae. ABDOMEN. Dark brown with silvery pruinosity (Fig. 4 A – B); T 4 with pair of median marginal setae and pair of lateral marginal setae; T 5 with row of marginal setae; ST 2 – 4 with marginal setae more developed than discal setae; ST 5 with a membranous window, arms approximately 2.5 × of base length, and dense setae pattern (Fig. 3 A). TERMINALIA. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 and apex of phallus black, other structures orange (Fig. 4 D); cercus with numerous setae in basal half and sparse setae in apical half; cercal prongs divergent dorsally and pointed (Fig. 3 B – C); surstylus almost triangular, with sparse apical setae (Fig. 3 B); pregonite slightly curved, longer than postgonite, with apex bifurcated (Fig. 3 D); postgonite with apex rounded and curved and short seta inserted on anterior margin near base (Fig. 3 D); postgonal apodeme long and rectangular (Fig. 3 D); basiphallus and distiphallus distinctly separated by dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 3 D); vesica with superior and inferior projection, superior one bifurcated in ventral view and inferior one with pointed projection (Fig. 3 D – E); juxta distinctly separated from paraphallus (Fig. 3 D); acrophallus formed by median stylus, median process, and pair of lateral styli (Fig. 3 D – E); median stylus almost straight in lateral view, median process tubular and lateral stylus with conspicuous spines in apex (Fig. 3 D – E). Female Unknown.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	discussion	Remarks Microcerella desertum sp. nov. is morphologically similar to M. spinigena (Rondani, 1864). These species can be separated by the single proclinate orbital seta present in the male of M. desertum, which is absent in M. spinigena, as well as by the cercal prong being shorter than the base of the cercus, and juxta with an apical margin forming lobes in M. desertum (Fig. 3 B – E), whereas in M. spinigena the cercal prong is longer than the base of the cercus, and juxta with straight apical margin (Mulieri et al. 2015: figs 187 – 188, 190).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC738FF90075FE494D7DA59EB.taxon	distribution	Distribution Chile (Atacama).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: FCDCA 0 B 4 - 7 B 07 - 4207 - 9 FFB- 91 CD 67087 EB 1 Figs 5 – 6	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Male: head without proclinate orbital setae; wings with vein R 1 bare; terminalia with epandrium orange (Fig. 6 D), basiphallus and distiphallus fused dorsally without a dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 5 C), and vesica with a superior and inferior projection, the inferior one with serrated margin (Fig. 5 C – D).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	etymology	Etymology The species epithet ‘ grinteri ’ (‘ grinter’ + ‘ i’), masculine genitive, is given in honor of Christopher C. Grinter (Collection Manager of Entomology at CAS).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	materials_examined	Type Material Holotype CHILE • ♂, terminalia dissected and stored in a microvial with glycerin pinned under the specimen; “ Chile, Santiago Prov. / Farellones, 2600 m. / III. 20.1966, M. E. Irwin / 33 º 21 ’ S. 70 º 20 ’ W. [printed on white paper] // HOLOTYPE [printed on red paper] // Microcerella grinteri sp. nov. / Santos, Mello-Patiu, / Couri & Mulieri 2025 [handwritten on white paper] // CASENT / 8451582 [printed on white paper] ”; CASENT 8451582; CAS.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	description	Description Male (n = 1) MEASUREMENST. Length: 12 mm. HEAD. Parafacial, fronto-orbital plate and postocular orbit dark brown with slightly silver pruinosity (Fig. 6 A – C); facial ridge with setae on lower third; parafacial with row of setulae close to eye, similar in size to subvibrissal setae; frons about 0.22 × head width at level of ocellar triangle; frontal vitta blackish (Fig. 6 B); 11 – 12 well-developed frontal setae reaching level of apex of pedicel; rows of frontal setae parallel except anteriormost 2 divergent; reclinate orbital seta present, proclinate orbital setae absent; ocellar setae as developed as upper frontals; outer vertical seta undifferentiated from postocular setae; gena and genal groove with silver pruinosity (Fig. 6 A, C); gena with black setae; postgena silvery-gray pruinose with blackish setae; antenna black (Fig. 6 A, C); first flagellomere approximately 3 × as long as pedicel; arista micro pubescent on basal half (Fig. 6 C); palpus blackish. THORAX. Dark brown with silvery-gray pruinosity (Fig. 6 A – B); chaetotaxy: acrostichals 0 + 0, dorsocentrals 3 (anteriormost shorter) + 3 (the anteriormost shorter), intra-alars 1 + 2, supra-alars 1 + 3, postpronotals 3, notopleurals 4; postalar wall bare; postalar callus with 2 setae; scutellum with pair of basal and pair of subapical setae, pair of apical setae, and pair of discal setae; katepisternum with 3 setae almost in straight line; meral setae 11; proepisternum bare. WING. Hyaline, with dark brown veins (Fig. 6 A – B); tegula dark brown; basicosta yellowish; vein R 4 + 5 with setulae dorsally at basal ½ of distance to crossvein r-m; vein R 1 bare; cell r 4 + 5 open at wing margin; costal spine not differentiated; third costal sector bare ventrally. LEGS. Blackish-brown, pulvilli yellowish-brown (Fig. 6 A); mid femur with 3 median anterior setae, row of anteroventral setae, 2 preapical posterior setae, row of posteroventral setae, and without ctenidium; mid tibia with 2 median anterior setae, 1 median posterior seta and 2 posterior setae in apical third; hind trochanter without ventromedian pad of short, spiniform setae. ABDOMEN. Dark brown with silvery-gray pruinosity and yellowish pruinosity laterally (Fig. 6 A); T 4 without pair of median marginal setae and pair of lateral marginal setae; T 5 with row of marginal setae; ST 2 – 4 with marginal setae slightly more developed than discal setae; ST 5 with membranous window, arms approximately 3 × of base length, and dense setae pattern. TERMINALIA. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 and apex of phallus and cercus black, other structures orange (Fig. 6 D); cercus with numerous setae; cercal prongs divergent dorsally and rounded (Fig. 5 A – B); surstylus boomerang-like, with long apical setae (Fig. 5 B); pregonite straight, almost same length as postgonite (Fig. 5 C); postgonite with apex rounded and curved and short seta inserted on anterior margin near middle (Fig. 5 C); postgonal apodeme long and rectangular (Fig. 5 C); basiphallus and distiphallus fused dorsally without dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 5 C); vesica with superior and an inferior projection, inferior one with serrated margin (Fig. 5 C – D); juxta distinctly separated from paraphallus with anterior projection (Fig. 5 C – D); acrophallus formed by median stylus, median process, and pair of lateral styli (Fig. 5 C – D); median stylus almost straight, median process tubular and lateral stylus slightly curved (Fig. 5 C – D). Female Unknown.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	discussion	Remarks Microcerella grinteri sp. nov. is morphologically similar to M. quimaliensis (Lopes, 1982) but can be separated by the almost straight cercus in lateral view, the hat-like superior projection of the vesica, and the juxta being shorter than paraphallus (Fig. 5 C – D); while in M. quimaliensis, the cercus is evidently curved in lateral view, the superior projection of the vesica is stick-like, and the juxta is approximately as long as the paraphallus (Lopes 1982: figs 48 – 52).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC734FF950755E30CD7DB5BFD.taxon	distribution	Distribution Chile (Santiago).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 7338316 E- 49 EF- 469 A- 9 F 46 - 4 F 7 D 79589293 Figs 7 – 8	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Male: head without proclinate orbital setae; wings with vein R 1 bare; terminalia with epandrium black (Fig. 8 D), basiphallus and distiphallus fused dorsally without a dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 7 D), and vesica with a superior and inferior projection, the superior one little developed and the inferior one pointed (Fig. 7 D – E).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	etymology	Etymology The species epithet ‘ hyperbole’, from Greek and treated as a noun in apposition, refers to the exaggerated complexity of the phallic structures.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype ECUADOR • ♂, T 4, T 5 and terminalia dissected and stored in a microvial with glycerin pinned under the specimen; “ Ecuador / V. Cotopaxi / m 3250 / 4 - VI- 83 / Coll. Lassos [handwritten on white paper] // Microcerellini / Det. B. E. Cooper 1985 [printed on white paper] // Microcella / sp. nov. 11 / Det.: J. R. Santos 2022 [printed on white paper] // HOLOTYPE [printed on red paper] // Microcerella hyperbole sp. nov. / Santos, Mello-Patiu, / Couri & Mulieri 2025 [printed on white paper] ”; CNC.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	description	Description Male (n = 1) MEASUREMENTS. Length: 7 mm. HEAD. Parafacial, fronto-orbital plate and postocular orbit dark brown with silver pruinosity (Fig. 8 A – C); facial ridge with setae on lower third; parafacial with row of setulae close to eye, similar in size to subvibrissal setae; frons about 0.27 head width at level of ocellar triangle; frontal vitta blackish; 8 – 9 well-developed frontal setae reaching level of apex of pedicel; rows of frontal setae parallel except anteriormost 2 divergent; reclinate orbital seta present, proclinate orbital setae absent; ocellar setae as developed as upper frontals; outer vertical seta undifferentiated from postocular setae; gena and genal groove with silver pruinosity (Fig. 8 A, C); gena with black setae; postgena silvery-gray pruinose with blackish setae; antenna black (Fig. 8 C); first flagellomere approximately 1.5 × as long as pedicel; arista micro pubescent on basal half (Fig. 8 C); palpus blackish (Fig. 8 A, C). THORAX. Dark brown with silvery-gray pruinosity (Fig. 8 A – B); chaetotaxy: acrostichals 1 + 0, dorsocentrals 2 (well developed) + 3 (well developed), intra-alars 1 + 2, supra-alars 1 + 3 (the anteriormost shorter), postpronotals 3, notopleurals 4; postalar wall bare; postalar callus with 2 setae; scutellum with pair of basal and pair of subapical setae, apical setae absent, and discal setae absent; katepisternum with 3 setae almost in straight line; meral setae 5; proepisternum bare. WING. Hyaline, with dark brown veins (Fig. 8 A – B); tegula dark brown; basicosta yellowish; vein R 4 + 5 with setulae dorsally at basal ½ of distance to crossvein r-m; vein R 1 bare; cell r 4 + 5 open at wing margin; costal spine differentiated; third costal sector bare ventrally. LEGS. Blackish-brown, pulvilli yellowish-brown (Fig. 8 A); mid femur with 3 median anterior setae, row of anteroventral setae, 2 preapical posterior setae, row of posteroventral setae, and without ctenidium; mid tibia with 2 median anterior setae, 1 median posterior seta and 2 posterior setae in apical third; hind trochanter without ventromedian pad of short, spiniform setae. ABDOMEN. Dark brown with silvery-gray pruinosity (Fig. 8 A); T 4 without pair of median marginal setae and pair of lateral marginal setae; T 5 with row of marginal setae; ST 2 – 4 with marginal setae similar in size of discal setae; ST 5 with membranous window, arms approximately 3 × of base length, and dense setae pattern (Fig. 7 A). TERMINALIA. Black (Fig. 8 D); cercus with numerous setae in basal half and sparse setae in apical half; cercal prongs divergent dorsally and rounded (Fig. 7 B – C); surstylus bacilliform, with apical setae (Fig. 7 B); pregonite slightly curved and longer than postgonite (Fig. 7 D); postgonite with apex pointed and short seta inserted on anterior margin near middle (Fig. 7 D); postgonal apodeme broad (Fig. 7 D); basiphallus and distiphallus fused dorsally without dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 7 D); vesica with superior and inferior projection, superior one little developed and inferior one pointed (Fig. 7 D – E); juxta distinctly separated from paraphallus with long pointed anterior projection (Fig. 7 D – E); acrophallus formed by median stylus, median process, and pair of lateral styli (Fig. 7 D – E); median stylus, median process and lateral stylus almost straight with lateral stylus with spines in apex (Fig. 7 D – E). Female Unknown.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	discussion	Remarks Microcerella hyperbole sp. nov. is morphologically similar to M. rufipes (Lopes, 1982) but can be separated by the vesica being smooth and the juxta with a long pointed anterior projection (Fig. 7 D – E), while the vesica has numerous projections and a smooth juxta in M. rufipes (Lopes 1982: figs 62 – 64).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC731FF960763E51ED7F05DB3.taxon	distribution	Distribution Ecuador (Cotopaxi).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 2498 FBD 3 - 3 C 86 - 40 C 8 - BD 69 - 55 D 1 CB 51 D 5 FE Figs 9 – 10	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis Male: head without proclinate orbital setae; wings with vein R 1 bare; terminalia with epandrium orange, basiphallus and distiphallus fused dorsally without a dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 9 D), and vesica with a superior and inferior projection, the superior one C-like in lateral view and the inferior one with pointed lobes (Fig. 9 D – E).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	etymology	Etymology The species epithet ‘ jimi ’ (‘ jim’ + ‘ i’), masculine genitive, is given in honor of Jim O’Hara (CNC).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	materials_examined	Type material Holotype PERU • ♂, abdomen dissected and stored in a microvial with glycerin pinned under the specimen; “ La Huerta, Puno / Peru 3800 m. / 24 - 28. XI. 1955 / L. E. Pena [printed on white paper] // // Microcella / sp. nov. 12 near / M. carchia / Det.: J. R. Santos 2022 [printed on white paper] // HOLOTYPE [printed on red paper] // Microcerella jimi sp. nov. / Santos, Mello-Patiu, / Couri & Mulieri 2025 [printed on white paper] ”; CNC.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	description	Description Male (n = 1) MEASUREMENTS. Length: 9 mm. HEAD. Parafacial, fronto-orbital plate and postocular orbit dark brown with silvery pruinosity (Fig. 10 A – C); facial ridge with setae on lower third; parafacial with row of setulae close to eye, similar in size to subvibrissal setae; frons about 0.32 head width at level of ocellar triangle; frontal vitta blackish (Fig. 10 B – C); 9 – 10 well-developed frontal setae reaching level of apex of pedicel; rows of frontal setae parallel except anteriormost 3 divergent; reclinate orbital seta present, proclinate orbital setae absent; ocellar setae as developed as upper frontals; outer vertical seta 2 × as long as postocular setae; gena and genal groove with silver pruinosity (Fig. 10 A, C); gena with black setae; postgena silvery-gray pruinose with black setae; antenna black (Fig. 10 A, C); first flagellomere approximately 2 × as long as pedicel; arista micro pubescent on basal half (Fig. 10 C); palpus blackish (Fig. 10 A, C). THORAX. Dark brown with silvery pruinosity (Fig. 10 A – B); chaetotaxy: acrostichals 2 (anteriormost shorter) + 0, dorsocentrals 2 + 3, intra-alars 1 + 2, supra-alars 1 + 2, postpronotals 3, notopleurals 4; postalar wall bare; postalar callus with 2 setae; scutellum with pair of basal and pair of subapical setae, apical setae absent, and discal setae absent; katepisternum with 3 setae almost in straight line; meral setae 7 – 8; proepisternum bare. WING. Hyaline, with dark brown veins (Fig. 10 A – B); tegula dark brown; basicosta yellowish; vein R 4 + 5 with setulae dorsally at ⅓ of distance to crossvein r-m; vein R 1 bare; cell r 4 + 5 open at wing margin; costal spine differentiated; third costal sector bare ventrally. LEGS. Blackish-brown, pulvilli yellowish-brown (Fig. 10 A); mid femur with 2 median anterior setae, row of anteroventral setae, 2 preapical posterior setae, row of posteroventral setae, and without ctenidium; mid tibia with 2 median anterior setae, 2 median posterior setae and 2 posterior setae in apical third; hind trochanter without ventromedian pad of short, spiniform setae. ABDOMEN. Dark brown with silvery pruinosity; T 4 with pair of median marginal setae and pair of lateral marginal setae; T 5 with row of marginal setae; ST 2 – 4 with marginal setae more developed than discal setae; ST 5 with membranous window, arms approximately 2 × of base length, and dense setae pattern (Fig. 9 A). TERMINALIA. Syntergosternite 7 + 8 and apex of phallus black, other structures orange; cercus with numerous setae in basal half and sparse setae in apical half; cercal prongs divergent dorsally and rounded (Fig. 9 B – C); surstylus almost rectangular, with apical setae (Fig. 9 B); pregonite straight and longer than postgonite (Fig. 9 D); postgonite with apex rounded and curved and short seta inserted on anterior margin in middle (Fig. 9 D); postgonal apodeme short and oval (Fig. 9 D); basiphallus and distiphallus fused dorsally without dorsal membranous strip (Fig. 9 D); vesica with superior and inferior projection, superior one C-like in lateral view and inferior one with pointed lobes (Fig. 9 D – E); juxta distinctly separated from paraphallus with median anterior projection (Fig. 9 D); acrophallus formed by median stylus, median process, pair of lateral styli and pair of lateral processes (Fig. 9 D – E); median stylus, median process, lateral stylus and lateral process almost straight with lateral stylus with spines in apex (Fig. 9 D – E). Female Unknown.	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	discussion	Remarks Microcerella jimi sp. nov. is morphologically similar to M. carchia Pape, 1990 but can be separated by the juxta being apically straight and its median anterior projection having a conspicuous spine in the apical half (Fig. 9 D – E), whereas in M. carchia the juxta is apically bilobed and its median anterior projection has no spine (Lopes 1982: figs 56 – 58).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
A464791EC732FF8B07BFE4D5D70D5D57.taxon	distribution	Distribution Peru (Puna).	en	Santos, Josenilson Rodrigues dos, Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de, Couri, Márcia Souto, Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo (2025): Five new species of Microcerella Macquart, 1851 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Andean Region. European Journal of Taxonomy 989: 245-265, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.989.2897, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2897/13129
