Peckia (Sarcodexia) roppai (Lopes & Tibana)

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2013, <strong> Revision of the New World genus <em> Peckia </ em> Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3622 (1), pp. 1-87 : 76-77

Peckia (Sarcodexia) roppai (Lopes & Tibana) , new subgeneric affiliation

( Figs. 100, 101 ) (figs. 36–42 in Lopes & Tibana 1982)

Euboettcheria roppai Lopes & Tibana, 1982: 294 . Brazil, Mato Grosso, Sinop. Holotype male, in MNRJ (not examined).

Description. Male. Head. Ocellar setae equal to or shorter than postoculars. Outer vertical seta of same size as postoculars. Black orbital setae. Four frontal setae situated below the dorsal limit of the lunule. Genal setae black anteriorly, yellow or white posteriorly. First two rows of occipital setae black, others yellow. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals = 0 + 1, dorsocentrals = 0 + 3 (anterior one shorter), intra-alars = 2 + 2 (anterior one shorter), supraalars = 2 + 3, basal scutellars = 4. Prosternum and posterior surface of hind coxa with black setae. Black anteroventral scutellar setae. Three katepisternal setae. Postalar wall with only black setae. Lower calypter with a central dark spot and a fringe of long hair-like setae along outer margin, extending to or almost to its posterior margin. Mid femur with a ctenidium, male hind femoral organ without setae set in a patch. Antero-dorsal surface of mid tibia with 1 median and 1 apical seta. Hind femur with a row of antero-ventral and a row of postero-ventral setae. Hind tibia antero-dorsally with 1 seta in the basal third, 1 in the middle third and 1 preapical. Abdomen. Postero-ventral seams between T3/T4 and T4/T5 parallel. Microtrichosity of the abdomen laterally golden. ST1+3 with only black hair-like setae. Three lateral setae on each side of T4. T5 with golden microtrichosity. Posterior seam of T5 not projected posteriorly and ventrally, and normal setae in postero-ventral area directed posteriorly. Terminalia. ST5 orange. Medial margin of ST5 ∩-shaped. Inner margins of ST5 arms straight. Inner margins of ST5 arms with long hair-like setae posteriorly. Syntergosternite 7+8 longer than high in lateral view, brown anteriorly and yellow posteriorly, with golden microtrichosity. Epandrium bright orange. Cercus orange proximally and brown or dark brown distally. Cercus in lateral view progressively narrowing towards the apex, with the distal half of the dorsal margin slightly curved, with an acute apex ditected ventrally. Cercus with no more than 5 ventral spines, distinctly separated from each other. Surstylus shorter than 1/2 cercus. Surstylus orange, finger-shaped with anterior margin slightly projected towards the anterior body region, with a rounded apex. Pregonite tongue-shaped, curved in lateral view, with a lateral projection, and an undulated apex. Postgonite elongated, with a hooked apex. Basi- and distiphallus connected by a desclerotized strip. Juxta with juxtal lateral plate with three juxtal horns. Basal horn long and straight, of the same colour as the phallic tube. Distal two horns slightly curved. The bifurcation giving origin to the juxtal lateral plates is deep and leaves the lateral plates not very close to each other. Distiphallus with a pair of lateral styli separated, each with a longitudinal cleft. Short vesica composed of one entire plate without demarcated connection with the distiphallus.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL— Brazil (Mato Grosso), Ecuador, Peru (Loreto, Madre de Dios).

Material examined. Brazil: 3 males ( Euboettcheria roppai Lopes & Tibana, 1982 , paratypes), Mato Grosso, Sinop. BR 163, Km. 500–600, 12°31'S 55°37'W, x.1975, Alvarenga & Roppa ( MNRJ) . Ecuador: 33 males, Napo Province, Yasuní National Park, Yasuní Research Station , 76°36'W 00°38'S, 03–20.xi.1998, T. Pape & B. Viklund ( ZMUC) . Peru: 1 male, Loreto, Previsto , 700–799m, 15–30.v.1965, J. Schunke ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, Madre de Dios, Manu, Río Manu, Pakitza , 70°58'W 12°7'S, 250m, 09–23.ix.1988, Amnon Freidberg ( USNM) .

Figures

FIGURES 97–111. 97. Peckia (Sarcodexia) tridentata. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 98. Peckia (Sarcodexia) aequata. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 99. Peckia (Sarcodexia) florencioi. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 100–101. Peckia (Sarcodexia) roppai. 100. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 101. Male terminalia, apical view. 102–103. Peckia (Sarcodexia) dominicana. 102. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 103. Distiphallus, left lateral view. 104–105. Peckia (Sarcodexia) chirotheca. 104. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 105. Distiphallus, apical view. 106–107. Peckia (Sarcodexia) notata. 106. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 107. Male terminalia, ventral view. 108–109. Peckia (Sarcodexia) lambens. 108. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 109. Distiphallus, pregonites and postgonites, ventral view. 110–111. Peckia (Sarcodexia) cocos n. sp. 110. Cerci and surstyli, left lateral view. 111. Distiphallus, pregonites and postgonites, left lateral view. (Abbreviations: bJh—basal juxtal horn, Ce—cercus, J—juxta, Jh—juxtal horns, Jlp—juxtal lateral plate, Ls—lateral stylus, Pog—postgonite, Prg—pregonite, Sr—surstylus, V—vesica.)