Amazunculus platypodus (Hardy)

Marques, Dayse W. A., Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Rafael, José A., 2019, Revision of the genus Amazunculus Rafael (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 4577 (3), pp. 439-472 : 465-467

Amazunculus platypodus (Hardy)

Figs 153–167

Dorylas (Eudorylas) platypodus Hardy, 1950: 442 , figs. 6 a–d.

Eudorylas platypodus ; Aczél, 1952: 245.

Pipunculus (Eudorylas) platypodus ; Hardy, 1966: 5.

Amazunculus platypodus ; Rafael, 1986: 16, figs 1–5; De Meyer, 1996: 44; Galinkin & Rafael, 2008: 521, figs 12–13; Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012: 15; Marques & Rafael, 2018.

Redescription. Mesopleuron ( Fig. 153 ) dark brown to black, mostly brown pruinose, except anepisternum grey pruinose anterodorsally; katatergite and anatergite grey pruinose. mediotergite brown pruinose. Legs ( Figs 153– 154 ) dark brown to black, except apices of trochanters, extreme apices of femora and bases of tibiae yellow; femora with grey pruinescence on the posterior face. Wing ( Fig. 154–155 ). Length 7.8 mm. LW/MWW = 3.5. LTC/LFC = 1.6. Membrane mostly hyaline except by basal third darkened. Abdomen ( Figs 153–154 ). Dark brown to black with brown pruinescence, except tergite 1 and tergites 3–5 with interrupted bands of grey pruinescence posteriorly. Tergite 6 and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 157 . Terminalia. Syntergosternite 8 with a large membranous area ( Fig. 158 ). Epandrium yellowish brown, very inflated. Surstyli ( Fig. 159 ) yellowish brown, symmetric and fused with epandrium, with rounded apex, elongated ventrally ( Figs 160–161 ). Phallic guide ( Figs 163–165 ) long and curved, base distinctly expanded dorsally with apex elongated in lateral view ( Fig. 165 ), about 1.6× hypandrium length. Basal processes of phallus large and pointed, surpassing posterior margin of hypandrium ( Fig. 163 ). Phallus ( Figs 165–166 ) with large pointed projections apically. Ejaculatory apodeme as in Fig. 167 .

Female. Unknown.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂: “[ BRASIL], Amazon. [? Amazonas], 66–53 [without year and collector] [3°21'46.33"S, 65°50'37.80"W]” “ Holotype ♂ Dorilas platypodus D. E. Hardy ” “ Holotype ” “ Dorilas (Eudorylas) platypodus Hardy, Det. 1950 , D.E. Hardy ” “ NHMUK 010863721 ” ( NHMUK) ( Fig. 156 ). Additional material: “ BRASIL, Pará, C.[onceição do] Araguaia , [8°10'35.32"S, 49°26'47.49"W], 19–31.i.1983 ” “ J. A. Rafael, armadilha de Malaise” “Comparado com tipo Eudorylas platypodus (Hardy) , J. A. Rafael—1985” “ J. Skevington Specimen #7959” (1 ♂, INPA).

Holotype condition. Antennae lost. Right eye slightly damaged. Right wing mounted in a microslide with balsam. Terminalia placed in a microvial with glycerin, both pinned upon the pin with the specimen.

Geographical distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Pará ( Fig. 183 ).

Habitat. This species is found in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, collected with Malaise trap at ground level.

Figures

FIGURES 183. Distribution of Amazunculus species. 183, A. claripennis Rafael & Rosa, A. duckei Galinkin & Rafael, A. francyae sp. nov., A. manauara sp. nov., A. panamensis sp. nov., A. platypodus (Hardy) and A. psilalarius sp. nov.

FIGURES 153–156. Amazunculus platypodus (Hardy). Holotype male. 153, Habitus, right lateral view; 154, Habitus, dorsal view; 155, Wing; 156, Holotype labels.

FIGURES 157–167. Amazunculus platypodus (Hardy). Holotype male. 157, Tergites 6, 7 and sternites 6, 7, ventral view; 158, Syntergosternite 8, posterior view; 159, Epandrium and surstyli, dorsal view; 160, Surstyli, ventral view; 161, Left surstylus, lateral view; 162, Right surstylus, lateral view; 163, Hypandrium, phallic guide and phallus, ventral view; 164, Phallic guide, dorsal view; 165, Hypandrium, phallic guide and phallus, left lateral view; 166, Phallus, ventral view; 167, Ejaculatory apodeme.