Glyphidops filosus ( Fabricius, 1805 )

Gomes, Lucas R. P., Sepúlveda, Tatiana A. & Pedraza-Lara, Carlos, 2023, Neriidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from Mexico: new species, new records and an identification key, Zootaxa 5264 (1), pp. 27-46 : 36

Glyphidops filosus ( Fabricius, 1805)

( Figs 1E , 2F, G , 8D )

Diagnosis. Frontal vitta yellow with ovate black spot on posterior third, covering the ocellar tubercle and narrowing towards the median occipital sclerite ( Fig. 1E ). First flagellomere lanceolate with arista apical and densely white pubescent ( Fig. 1E ). Vibrissa absent. Prosternum narrow, separated from proepisternal plate by a wide membranous area. Two dorsocentral prescutellar setae. Scutum with two dorsal white pruinescent stripes, separated by wide median brown stripe that narrows after transverse suture. Supra-alar seta absent ( Fig. 2F, G ). Fore coxa with one antero-apical seta (adapted from Sepúlveda et al. 2014).

Material examined. Mexico. Chiapas. Ocosingo, Montes Azules [16.11260, -90.94089], 9-14.vii.1987, F. Arias & L. Cervantes, 1 male ( CNIN) . Oaxaca. km 54 Tuxtepec - Oaxaca [18.07732, -96.14509], 28.iii.1984, A. Ibarra, 1 female ( CNIN) . Veracruz. Estación Biológica Los Tuxtlas [18.48394, -95.00997], 20.i.1986, F. Arias, 1 female ( CNIN) ; same label information, except: 10.vii.1988, V. Hernández & R. Pérez, 1 female ( CNIN) ; 13.xi.2017, Carlos, P., Saúl, G., Magali, E., Leonardo, G., 1 female ( CARF - CPL 1759 ) ; 12.viii.1992, E. Ramírez, 1 male ( EBCH) .

Distribution. Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca *, Veracruz *), Guatemala and Honduras to Surinam and South to Bolivia and Brazil ( Sepúlveda et al. 2014).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Cerantichir enderleini Hennig, 1937, male, dorsal view (A); Eoneria blanchardi Aczél, 1951, female, dorsal view (B); Glyphidops durus (Cresson, 1926), female, dorsal view (C), and male, abdomen (D); Glyphidops filosus (Fabricius 1805), male, head (E); Glyphidops flavifrons (Bigot, 1886), female, abdomen (F), and male, dorsal (G); Nerius plurivittatus Bigot, 1886, male, dorsal (H); Odontoloxozus longicornis (Coquillett, 1904), male, lateral (I). Scale bars: 1 mm.

FIGURE 2. Habitus in lateral view. Cerantichir enderleini Hennig, 1937, male (A) and female (B); Eoneria blanchardi Aczél, 1951, female (C); Glyphidops durus (Cresson, 1926), male (D) and female (E); Glyphidops filosus (Fabricius 1805), male (F) and female (G). Scale bars = 1 mm.

FIGURE 8. Distribution records of Neriidae in Mexico: Cerantichir enderleini Hennig, 1937 and Cerantichir mexicana sp. nov. (A); Eoneria blanchardi Aczél, 1951 and Eoneria ramirezi sp. nov. (B); Odontoloxozus longicornis (Coquillett, 1904) and Odontoloxozus pachycericola Mangan & Baldwin, 1986 (C); Glyphidops durus (Cresson, 1926) and G. filosus (Fabricius, 1805) (D); G. flavifrons (Bigot, 1886) and G. xanthopus (Schiner, 1868) (E); Nerius pilifer Fabricius, 1805, N. plurivittatus Bigot, 1886, and N. purpusianus Enderlein, 1922 (F). Circle= literature records. Star= new records.