Tomosvaryella scopulata Hardy, 1963

Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany & Rafael, José Albertino, 2021, Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) of Colombia, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 4985 (1), pp. 37-68 : 50

Tomosvaryella scopulata Hardy, 1963

Figs 73–82 , 133

Tomosvaryella scopulata Hardy, 1963: 262 , figs 1 i–l; 1965b: 64, figs 24 f, g; 1966: 8; Scarbrough & Knutson, 1989: 536, figs 4 a–d; Ale-Rocha & Rafael, 1995: 409; De Meyer, 1996: 93; Ale-Rocha, 1996: 181; Rafael & Ale-Rocha, 2004: 16; Ale-Rocha & Souza, 2011: 293, 297, figs 27, 86; Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012: 27, 33, 35, 39; Rafael & Rodriguez, 2016: 454, 455.

Diagnosis. Male. Postcranium with lower half grayish-pruinose, upper half brownish-pruinose ( Fig. 73 ). Hind trochanter with small triangular protuberance ( Fig. 74 ). Tergites and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 75 . Surstyli asymmetrical, robust with laterobasal lobe setulose; apex somewhat apically truncated in dorsal view, right surstylus slightly shorter ( Figs 76–77 ), both surstyli with tips slightly downward-directed when seen in lateral view ( Figs 78–79 ). Apex of phallic guide short, angled at about 30 degrees ( Fig. 80 ). Phallus with one ejaculatory duct with three spines reclined, the other two ducts without spine ( Fig. 80 ). Ejaculatory apodeme shortened, distally truncated ( Fig. 81 ). Gonopods subsymmetrical, right gonopod slightly longer ( Fig. 82 ).

Material examined. COLOMBIA, Bolivar, SFF[Santuario de Fauna y Flora] Los Colorados, Villa Roca , 9º54’N / 75º07’W, 180 m [eters], Malaise, 24.ix–9.xi.2001, E. Deulufeut leg, “M2419”, (1♂, IAvH)” (photographed specimen); “ idem , Vichada, PNN[Parque Nacional Natural] Tuparro, Pie Cerro Tomas , 5º21’N / 67º51’W, 250 m [eters], 22.v.–3.vi.2001, W. Villalba leg “M1792” (1♂, LEUA)” .

Geographical distribution. Argentina; Cuba; Dominica; Mexico; Nicaragua; ( Rodriguez & Rafael 2012); Colombia, Bolivar, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Colorados; Vichada, Parque Nacional Natural Tuparro ( Fig. 133 ).

Habitat. The specimens were collected with Malaise traps at ground level in areas of tropical dry forest in the Caribbean region, at the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Colorados and Parque Nacional Natural Los Colorados, where the vegetation is composed of gallery forest with low elevation of the canopy from the ground in the Orinoco region of Colombia.

Comments. The specimens collected are similar to the holotype illustrated by Ale-Rocha & Rafael (1995), differing only in the length, which exceeds in 1.16 mm that of the holotype.

Figures

FIGURE 133. Geographical records of Tomosvaryella species in Colombia. T. lynchi, T. macarenensis sp. nov., T. similis, T. venezuelana, T. subvirescens and T. scopulata.

FIGURES 73–82. Tomosvaryella scopulata Hardy, 1963 (IAvH–2419). Male. 73, Habitus, left lateral view; 74, Left hind trochanter, lateral view; 75, Tergites and sternites 6 and 7, ventral view; 76, Tip of abdomen with syntergosternite 8, ventral view; 77, Susrtyli, dorsal view; 78, Left surstylus, lateral view; 79, Right surstylus, lateral view; 80, Phallic guide and phallus, left lateral view; 81, Ejaculatory apodeme, lateral view; 82, Hypandrium and gonopods, ventral view.