Hendelia campa
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.201850 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6193472 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF6987A7-4528-901D-1FF8-F9F6FB963EF3 |
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Plazi |
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Hendelia campa |
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Hendelia campa View in CoL spec nov.
( Figs 5 View FIGURES 1 – 5 , 17–19 View FIGURES 17 – 28 )
Description ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ). Male. Body length 4.0mm. Bristles yellow. Two dorsocentral bristles with short but welldeveloped setula in front of anterior bristle. Vibrissa long and stout, slightly upcurved. Two lateral scutellar bristles with anterior pair minute. Posterior fronto-orbital setula-like. Head yellow with inner face and anterior margin of first flagellomere black, frons dark yellow, ocellar tubercle brown and anterior 2/3 of gena dark brown; gena and parafacial pilose. Notum dark yellow with faint central orange stripe on scutum. Pleuron dark yellow with orange and brown mottling on anepimeron, anepisternum and anterodorsal face of katepisternum. Legs yellow with fore coxa light yellow and distal tarsomere on all legs light brown. Abdomen dark brown. M1+2 ratio 5.4. Wing darkly clouded on distal ¼ from costa to R4+5.
Male terminalia. ( Figs 17–19 View FIGURES 17 – 28 ) Epandrium shallow, tapering towards base, and with clusters of long setae on anterodistal and posterodistal margins. Surstylus angled anteriorly and with setose transverse posteromedial ridge. Cerci entirely fused and very thin (slightly widened apically) with one pair of apical bristles. Ejaculatory apodeme long and thin with shallow apical depression. Hypandrium with four medial bristles (three short and one long). Pregonite wide, flat, longitudinally wrinkled, with medial row of empty sockets, and two distal setulae. Phallapodeme large, thin and crested with base narrow.
Female. Unknown.
Etymology. The specific epithet is Latin for “caterpillar”, as the epandrium somewhat resembles the head of a caterpillar.
Holotype. MEXICO. Xalapa, 22.ii.1998, A. Freidberg (1ɗ, TAUI).
Comments. Externally, Hendelia campa resembles H. pterygion (from which it can be separated using the characters listed in couplet 6) but the male genitalia are much more similar to those of H. stimulator , particularly in the structure of the surstylus and phallapodeme. The epandrium of H. campa , however, is shorter (particularly towards the base), there are distal setulae on the pregonite, the phallus is longer and thinner and only one of the hypandrial bristles is pronounced.
Hendelia campa , H. pterygion and H. stimulator form a distinctive group in which the vibrissa is very long and thick, the scutellum is yellow, the inner surface of the first flagellomere is dark, the cerci are long and thin, and the pregonite is strongly projecting, wrinkled and easily observed without dissection.
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