Puliciphora longitergum, Disney, R. Henry L., 2003

Disney, R. Henry L., 2003, Seven new species of New World Puliciphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) with a new key to the Neotropical species, Zootaxa 162, pp. 1-22 : 12

Puliciphora longitergum sp. nov.

( Fig. 16 )

Female

Frons light brown with 4 SAs­0­0­6 bristles. Eyes large, their length from above being about 1.7x breadth of postpedicel. The latter brown with four SPS vesicles, which are larger than sockets of upper SAs. Palps light brown with five bristles and a dozen somewhat longish hairs. Yellowish brown labrum about 1.4x width of postpedicel. Thorax light brown; with a small bristle by spiracle; a small alar bristle on pale, ill defined, wing remnant; with four bristles at rear margin, the inner pair being further apart than either is from an outer bristle and the hairs between them are a little stronger than the rest. Abdominal tergites brown to dark brown, with T6 represented by apodemes only. T4­T6 as Fig. 16 . Venter yellowish brown with numerous hairs above and below. The ovipositor segments (7­9/10) when extended measure 0.55­0.60 mm in length. Legs with light brown femora and tibiae and paler tarsi. The shorter spur of hind tibia situated as in P. cacaulandiae .

Material

HOLOTYPE female, Mexico, Chiapas, Laranjá, 300 m, July 1977, Hojurusia Deselva ( CUMZ ­ 4­49). PARATYPE female as holotype.

Figures

FIGURES 15 ­ 19. Puliciphora females, abdominal tergites 4 ­ 6: (15) P. laranjae; (16) P. longitergum; (17) P. pygmaea; (18) P. interrupta (19) P. parsetosa. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.