Marshallicona quitu Cerretti & Pape, 2020

Cerretti, Pierfilippo, Badano, Davide, Gisondi, Silvia, Giudice, Giuseppe Lo & Pape, Thomas, 2020, The world woodlouse flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae), ZooKeys 903, pp. 1-130 : 1

Marshallicona quitu Cerretti & Pape sp. nov. Figs 1C , 15

Type material.

Holotype ♂: Mindo-Bellavista Ecuador /Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve / 0°3'28.57"S, 78°46'6.02"W /2000m 1 May 2001 /S.A. Marshall and S.P.L. Luk (PUCE). Paratypes 2 ♂♂: same data as holotype (NHMD, MZUR).

Description.

Male. Body length: 4.5-5.5 mm. Colouration: head mostly black in ground colour, antenna and palpus brown; occiput and posterior 2/3 of fronto-orbital plate shiny without microtomentum, anterior 1/3 of fronto-orbital plate and parafacial covered with silver reflecting microtomentum; thorax (including tegula, basicosta, wing veins and legs) black in ground colour, microtomentum virtually absent; abdomen mainly yellow except brownish posterior margin of tergites 1+2, 3 and 4 and on posterior 1/2-2/3 of tergite 5. Wing membrane infuscate around veins. Head: frontal vitta slightly narrower than fronto-orbital plate (measured at midlength). Parafacial entirely bare below lower frontal seta. Lateral vertical seta not differentiated from strongest uppermost postocular setae. Prementum stout, not longer than wide; labella broad. Thorax: one posthumeral seta (medial); 1 + 1 supra-alar setae; 0 + 2 intra-alar setae; 2(3) + 3 dorsocentral setae; 0-3 + 1 acrostichal setae. One or 2 katepisternal setae. Legs: fore tibia without posterior seta. Abdomen: mid-dorsal depression on syntergite 1+2 confined to anterior half.

Distribution.

Neotropical - Ecuador.

Etymology.

The species epithet is derived from the Quitu tribe, the pre-Columbian indigenous people who founded the city of Quito, which is now the capital of Ecuador. The name should be treated as a noun in apposition.

Figures

Figure 1. Rhinophoridae photographed in nature. A Bezzimyia sp. (Ecuador) B Bixinia winkleri (Australia) C Marshallicona quitu (Ecuador) D Paykullia maculata (Finland) E Stevenia sp. (Italy) F Tricogena rubricosa (Finland) G Phyto sp. (Italy). Photographs by Steve Marshall (A, C), P. C. (B, E, G), Hakon Haraldseide (D, F).

Figure 15. Marshallicona quitu gen. et sp. nov. (Ecuador) ♂. A Habitus in lateral view B abdomen in dorsal view C head in lateral view D head in frontal view E wing in dorsal view F, G epandrial complex in posterior view (F) and lateral view (G) H hypandrial complex in lateral view [A-D holotype, E-H paratype].