Corethrella (Corethrella) longituba Belkin, Heinemann & Page, 1970

Amaral, André P., Mariano, Rodolfo & Pinho, Luiz Carlos, 2023, Description of five new species of frog-biting midges (Diptera, Corethrellidae) from Brazil and examination of new morphological characters with utility for taxonomic and phylogenetic studies, European Journal of Taxonomy 874 (1), pp. 1-120 : 79-80

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.874.2135

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:62C858FA-A538-4E0F-B0A1-624E0062F931

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8040055

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0396879B-FF8F-3677-FEAF-A26AFDEEEC9A

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Felipe

scientific name

Corethrella (Corethrella) longituba Belkin, Heinemann & Page, 1970
status

 

Corethrella (Corethrella) longituba Belkin, Heinemann & Page, 1970 View in CoL

Fig. 38 View Fig ; Appendix 1

Material examined

BRAZIL – São Paulo State • 1 ♂, adult; Campos do Jordão, Córrego Canhambora ; 22°41ʹ44ʺ S, 45°29ʹ30ʺ W; 1538 m a.s.l.; M. Spiez leg.; 4 Oct. 2005; light sheet; CE-MHS GoogleMaps .

Description

Male adult (n = 1)

HEAD. Sensilla ( Fig. 38A View Fig ): Ocular row with 1 thick offset seta at ventral part, 12 setae shortly extending posteriorly. Subocular row not well-defined; vertex with about 15 scattered setae. Postgenal row with 5 slender setae on mid-posterior portion of head. With 2 thick ventromedial setae.

THORAX. Sensilla ( Fig. 38B View Fig ): Antepronotum with 4 slender lateral setae. Postpronotum with 1 thick dorsal and 2 slender posterior setae.Scutum, prescutal area with 2 thick and 1 intermediate setae vertically aligned near prescutal suture, 3 slender setae more dorsally; group of 7 slender setae anteriorly. Antealar area with group of 10 thick/intermediate and 6 slender setae ventrally; 10 slender setae dorsally located. Supraalar area with 2 thick setae, with 4 slender setae surrounding. Dorsocentral row, posterior part with group of 4 thick offset setae; about 28 thick/intermediate and 25 slender completing row. Scutellum with 11 thick setae. Posterior anepisternum without setae. Anepimeron with 10 slender setae.

WING. R 3 /R 1: 0.43; R 2+3 /R 2: 0.74.

LEGS. Empodium ( Fig. 38C View Fig ) of intermediate length, slender, with 3 branches. Ta1/Ta2: 3.33; Ta3/Ta4: 0.53.

Distribution and biology

This specimen has previously been recorded in Amaral et al. (2019). It was collected with a light trap near a stream in an area of Araucaria moist forest in Campos do Jordão State Park, São Paulo. The altitude recorded was 1538 m a.s.l.

This species is otherwise known from the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico at altitudes ranging from 1 to 150 m a.s.l. ( Borkent 2008).

Remarks

The individual differs from the description by Borkent (2008) in the presence of one sensillum coeloconicum on flagellomere IX.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Corethrellidae

Genus

Corethrella

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