Neopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis ( Brues, 1919a )

Ament, Danilo Cesar & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the genus Neopleurophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of thirty seven new species, Zootaxa 3657 (1), pp. 1-93 : 6-8

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1

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scientific name

Neopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis ( Brues, 1919a )
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Neopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis ( Brues, 1919a)

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Paraspiniphora scutellata var. jamaicensis Brues, 1919a: 431 .

Chaetocnemistoptera jamaicensis ; Schmitz, 1927: 31; 1929: 93.

Chaetopleurophora jamaicensis ; Brues, 1943: 52; Borgmeier, 1961: 3; 1962: 452; 1968: 13.

Chaetopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis ; Borgmeier, 1969: 38.

Neopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis ; Brown, 1992: 51.

Material examined. Holotype ♀, JAMAICA: Liguanea Plain , xii.1911, C. Brues col. ( MCZ).

Comments. The female holotype of N. scutellata var. jamaicensis differs from the female holotype of N. scutellata in having three posterodorsal setae on hind tibia, while N. scutellata has four. Its status has been changed over the years depending on the view if this represents sufficient variation to separate them as different species. Both holotypes are females and could not be associated to males with confidence. Neopleurophora hind leg chaetotaxy sometimes can be used to diagnose species, but species as N. kleini sp. nov., N. colobopyga sp. nov., N. setipes and N. browni sp. nov. show intraespecific variation of this character, in some cases even in the same specimen. Since the diagnoses of most species are based on male terminalia, which are not available in this case, and hind leg chaetotaxy is extremely plastic within the genus, we do not see enough evidence to accept them as different species.

For the sake of the construction of a system within the genus to organize our knowledge on the diversity of species, but without having to erect additional formal taxa below the generic level, we propose groups and subgroups of species. Two main divisions—I and II—contain respectively groups 1 to 4 and 5 to 6. Group 6 is further divided into sections A and B. Even though we tried to gather the species based on features that seemed to correspond to apomorphic states (especially from the male terminalia characters), a formal study of the phylogenetic relationships within the genus is still wanting.

I. Species with free-ending epiphallus

Diagnosis. Epiphallus free-ending, bearing thin, transparent scales; phallic ventral plate usually not very developed, restricted to right side of phallus ( Figs. 6 View FIGURES 1–7 , 252–277 View FIGURES 252–255 View FIGURES 256–259 View FIGURES 260–263 View FIGURES 264–267 View FIGURES 268–271 View FIGURES 272–275 View FIGURES 276–279 ). Right subepandrial setulose process absent ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 48–51 ). Midtibia with three or more anterodorsal setae, hind tibia with five or more anterodorsal setae. Tergites with dense microtrichia producing a silvery sheen.

Species included. Neopleurophora scleropyga and N. synaptodrilus (group 1); N. acrensis , N. kleini , N. microssoma , N. prionotopyga and N. reginensis (group 2); N. acrochaetopyga , N. carcharopyga , N. dichaeta and N. tanytarsus (group 3); N. atlantica and N. boliviana (group 4).

Group 1.

Diagnosis. Right arm of phallus fused to basiphallus ( Figs. 252–255 View FIGURES 252–255 ).

Species included: Neopleurophora scleropyga and N. synaptodrilus .

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Neopleurophora

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Neopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis ( Brues, 1919a )

Ament, Danilo Cesar & Amorim, Dalton De Souza 2013
2013
Loc

Neopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis

Brown, B. V. 1992: 51
1992
Loc

Chaetopleurophora scutellata var. jamaicensis

Borgmeier, T. 1969: 38
1969
Loc

Chaetopleurophora jamaicensis

Borgmeier, T. 1968: 13
Borgmeier, T. 1962: 452
Borgmeier, T. 1961: 3
Brues, C. T. 1943: 52
1943
Loc

Chaetocnemistoptera jamaicensis

Schmitz, H. 1929: 93
Schmitz, H. 1927: 31
1927
Loc

Paraspiniphora scutellata var. jamaicensis

Brues, C. T. 1919: 431
1919
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