Craspedochaeta candida, Lonsdale & Marshall, 2006

Lonsdale, Owen & Marshall, Stephen A., 2006, Revision of the New World species of Craspedochaeta (Diptera: Clusiidae), Zootaxa 1291 (1), pp. 1-101 : 34-36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1291.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F7C11924-8B4C-475A-8A17-ECA5B8F5747C
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F8783-FFDF-CC1B-FEC4-FA6BC368FE3A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Craspedochaeta candida
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Craspedochaeta candida View in CoL spec. nov.

( Figs. 16 View FIGURES 10–23 , 45, 46 View FIGURES 45–46 , 66 View FIGURES 61–66 , Map 5)

Description ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 10–23 )

Body length 3.0 mm. Bristles yellow (including bristles on basal section of costa). Acrostichal bristle absent. Ocellar bristle small. Scutum yellow with thick, dark brown, longitudinal median stripe and one thick transverse stripe behind suture. Scutellum and laterotergites dark brown. Pleuron light yellow with vertical dark brown stripe on posterior margin of dorsal ¾ of anepisternum and sometimes with faded brown spot on mediananterior face of katepisternum. Legs light yellow with distal ¼ of femora and basal ¾ of tibiae yellow. Frons orange (fading to brown posteriorly); back of head with one pair of dark brown dorsal stripes that join basally; antenna (excluding arista) and head below antenna bright white. Abdomen brown with tergite 1, anterior half of tergite 2 (sometimes only laterally), surstylus and cerci yellow. Wing dusky on distal 1/3 and darkly clouded from costa to R 4+5 (darkest around R 2+3); distance between crossveins distinctly longer than length of posterior crossvein.

Female

Unknown.

Male terminalia ( Figs. 45, 46 View FIGURES 45–46 , 66 View FIGURES 61–66 )

As described for S. pleuralis except as follows: cerci more ovate in outline; surstylus straight, sparsely setulose, approximately 1/3 height of epandrium, rounded apically, and with triangular subapical process posteriorly (three tubercles distally on inner face of process); hypandrial arm relatively wide; pregonite widely lobate and setose on posterior margin; anteroapical projection thin and long.

Etymology: The specific name is Latin for “shining” and “white”, referring to the diagnostic striking white regions of the head that are in contrast to the rest of the body, particularly the dark frons.

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil (Map 5).

Holotype: BOLIVIA. Depto La Paz , San Silverio, 20km S Caranvi, 15°50’S, 67°36’W, 750m, 21.iii.2001, S.D. Gaimari (1♂, CBFC). GoogleMaps

Paratype: BRAZIL. Roraima: Rio Uraricoera, Ilha de Maraca , 18–28.vii.1987, J.A. Rafael, L.S. Aquino & J. Binda, Arm. Mal. (1♂, INPA) .

Comments: Craspedochaeta candida differs from other species in the C. transversa group by having a small ventral process on the surstylus, a particularly pronounced cruciate pattern and a bright white antenna in sharp contrast to the relatively dark frons.