Apocephalus camarae, Brown, Brian V., 2014

Brown, Brian V., 2014, Revision of the Apocephalus analis group of ant-decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 3857 (4), pp. 551-570 : 562

Apocephalus camarae new species

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Diagnosis. This species has a smaller anteromedial pair of setae adjacent to the posterior row on the venter of segment 6.

Description. Body length 1.4 mm. Frons 0.5 head width. Flagellomere 1 rounded oval, whitish yellow. Pleuron whitish yellow. Costa 0.56 wing length. Halter light brown. Abdominal tergites normal sized. Tergite 6 light brown, about as broad as tergite 5, entire, apical margin straight, posterior margin with few elongate thick setae. Venter of abdomen whitish yellow, venter of segments 3–5 with scattered thin setae, venter of intersegment 6–7 membranous, setae absent. Venter of segment 6 lacking sclerite, with row of long setae and slightly more anterior, smaller medial pair. Oviscape rounded, anterior process short, broadly rounded, with two large lateral setae: one dorsolateral and one ventrolateral. Dorsum of oviscape bare. Apex roundly pointed, downturned, with few small apical setae. Ventral setae of oviscape absent. Intersegment 7–8 without sclerotization. Anterior arms of stylet anteriorly parallel, well separated, stylet slightly curved in lateral view.

Distribution. Northeastern Brazil.

Derivation of specific epithet. Named for Brazilian dipterist Josenir Camara.

Holotype. ♀, BRAZIL: Bahia: Lencois, Rio Mucugezinho, 12.57°S, 41.38°W, 24.x.2008, Bandeza, Calor et al., light trap [LACM ENT 305129] (MZSP).

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 34. Female abdomens. 25, 32. Dorsal. 27, 29, 33, 34. Ventral. 31. Left lateral. 26, 30. Oviscape, dorsal.