Chonocephalus species G

Disney, R. H. L., 2005, Revision of Afrotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae), Journal of Natural History 39 (5), pp. 393-430 : 425

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930410001708680

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F6887D7-3A04-4B69-FE3C-FCA104A0C4CC

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scientific name

Chonocephalus species G
status

 

Chonocephalus species G

( Figures 63, 64 View Figures 63, 64 )

Two males of C. justini were caught in the same trap on the same dates. So species G is possibly the female of this species.

Material

Female , Seychelles, Silhouette Island, La Passe, above mausoleum, Malaise trap, 1–4 July 2000 (J. Gerlach) ( CUMZ —8-98) .

Female

Length of eye subequal to diameter of pale brownish yellow postpedicel. Palps straw yellow with up to 20 hairs of which the two subapicals are clearly longer. Frons, thoracic notum and abdominal tergites light brown; T1+2–T6 with dark bands at rear margins, but these not extending to the edges of the tergites; thus T3 with 20–24 hairs at rear margin, but only half lie within the dark band. Microtrichia of frons, thoracic notum and abdominal tergites all minute and dense. Legs straw yellow but femora, especially those of the mid and hind legs, very lightly tinged brown. Hind tarsus with ventral hair palisade on basitarsus only. Details of abdominal terminalia as Figures 63, 64 View Figures 63, 64 .

CUMZ

Cameroon University, Museum of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Chonocephalus

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