Phasia multisetosa ( Villeneuve, 1923 ) Sun & Marshall, 2003
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.276.1.1 |
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4177F6E7-B276-438E-8E49-EE5ECD84D351 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C-8BFE-FF4C-FEAF-FC9FFB1CF962 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Phasia multisetosa ( Villeneuve, 1923 ) |
status |
comb. nov. |
3.6.11 Phasia multisetosa ( Villeneuve, 1923) View in CoL , comb. nov.
(Figures I37, II8.3)
Allophora multisetosa Villeneuve, 1923: 81 View in CoL .
Alophora multisetosa View in CoL : Emden 1945: 432 (revision).
Alophora (Alophorella) multisetosa View in CoL : Crosskey 1980: 824 (catalog).
DESCRIPTION
Body length: 78 mm.
MALE: HEAD. Head compressed anteriorly. Eyes separated by a distance 0.5 times as wide as ocellar triangle. Frontoorbital plate black, yellowish grey pruinose, 23 rows of hairs laterally. Frontal vitta brown, divergent. Frontal vitta at base of antennae 1.8 times as wide as frontoorbital plate anteriorly. Ocellar setae present but fine; outer vertical setae absent; inner vertical setae absent. Face brown, grey pruinose. Parafacial brown, grey pruinose, bare, 1.1 times as wide as first flagellomere. Lower margin of face projecting, visible in profile, orange yellow; yellowish grey pruinose. Vibrissa well differentiated; intervibrissal distance as long as distance between vibrissa and eye on same side; facial ridge with bristles on lower 1/4. Gena brown, grey pruinose; hairs white; height 0.11 times eye height. Lunule normal; sublunular bulla indistinct. Antenna pedicel yellow or brown; first flagellomere black, 1.3 times as long as pedicel; arista thickened on basal 0.3. Length of oral opening 2.12.2 times its width. Occiput flattened, white pruinose; hairs white. Palpus brown.
THORAX. Mesoscutum very thinly grey pruinose, without black longitudinal vitta, with fine black hairs. 0+1 acrostichal seta; 0+1 dorsocentral seta; 1 postpronotal seta; presutural supraalar seta absent; 0 postsutural intraalar seta; 23 notopleural setae; 1 supraalar seta; 2 postalar setae. Pleuron thinly grey pruinose; hairs black and brown. Anepimeral setae medium size, black; 27 katepisternal setae; 68 meral setae. Scutellum brown; thinly grey pruinose, with two pairs of marginal setae; apical setae present and distinct; discal setae randomly arranged, not in rows. Subscutellum not very prominent. WING. Lower calypter hyaline white. Wing base without scalelike setae. Tegula black. Basicosta yellow. Wing pictured, narrow or broad; petiole of apical cell 0.24 times as long as preceding section of R 4+5; M meeting R 4+5 almost at right angle. Halter brown. LEGS. Fore femur brown; ventrally and laterally with whitish yellow hairs, dorsal surface with black hairs. Fore tibia brown, without bristles, apically with 1 v, 1 pv and 1 d. Fore tarus brown. Fore claws brown, apex black, 1.1 times as long as fifth tarsomere. Pulvilli brown. Mid femur brown, ventrally and laterally with whitish yellow hairs, dorsal surface with black hairs. Mid tibia brown, with 1 ad and 1 v, apically with 1 ad, 1 pv, 1 v and 1 d. Hind femur brown, ventrally and laterally with whitish yellow hairs, dorsal surface with black hairs. Hind tibia brown, with 4 ad and 34 pd.
ABDOMEN. Abdominal tergites yellow, but tergites IV, V sometime black; pruinosity absent; longitudinal vitta absent. Relative length of abdominal tergites I+II:III:IV:V = 1.2:1:1:1; relative width I+II:III:IV:V = 0.4:1:1:0.8. Hair spots indistinct. TERMINALIA. Syncercus slender, not notched posteriorly, apex bent ventrally. Surstylus longer than cercus, flattened dorsoventrally. Ejaculatory small, knoblike. Hypandrium broad, as long as phallapodeme. Pregonite reduced, even, haired ventrally. Postgonite welldeveloped, haired ventrally, apex almost rounded. Phallus broad, long, haired dorsally. Distiphallus membranous.
FEMALE: Eyes touching. Wing pictured. Anterior spinelike setae of hind tibia absent. Sternite VII (sheath) longer than sternite VI, pointed apically, bent, apex directed dorsally, smooth ventrally. Ovipositor bent upward.
TYPE MATERIAL
Holotype ♀, NIGERIA, Ibadan, 12.9.1922 (BMNH, examined).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED
ZIMBABWE: Umtali District, 23.ix.1931, P.A. Sheppard (1♂, AMNH). TANZANIA: Tanganyika, Ilonga, ixxi.1954, host: Dysdercus sp. P.T. Walker (1♂ 1♀, BMNH).
HOSTS
Dysdercus superstitiosus F. ( Hemiptera , Pyrrhocoridae ): Nigeria ( Emden 1945: 432). Dysdercus sp. ( Hemiptera , Pyrrhocoridae ): Tanzania (new record).
NOTES
According to Emden (1945: 432), the type specimen was reared from Dysdercus superstitiosus F. by A.W.J. Pomeroy, but there is no such host label with the type.
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Phasia multisetosa ( Villeneuve, 1923 )
Sun, Xuekui & Marshall, Stephen A. 2003 |
Alophora (Alophorella) multisetosa
Crosskey, R. W. 1980: 824 |
Alophora multisetosa
Emden, F. I. Van 1945: 432 |
Allophora multisetosa
Villeneuve, J. 1923: 81 |