Craspedochaeta festiva ( Sóos, 1962 )

Lonsdale, Owen & Marshall, Stephen A., 2006, Revision of the New World species of Craspedochaeta (Diptera: Clusiidae), Zootaxa 1291 (1), pp. 1-101 : 27-28

Craspedochaeta festiva ( Sóos, 1962)

( Fig. 11 , Map 3)

Czernyola festiva Sóos, 1962: 142–144 .

Redescription ( Fig. 11 )

Body length 3.1 mm. Bristles yellow (including bristles on basal section of costa). Lateral scutellar bristles small. Acrostichal bristle absent. Scutum yellow with anterior margin (excluding postpronotum) and median basal spot brown. Scutellum yellow with basal and anterior­lateral margins brown. Laterotergites brown lateral to scutellum excluding lower margin of katepisternum. Pleuron and legs yellow. Head predominantly yellow; frons with light orange tint (darkest anteriorly); ocellar tubercle brown; back of head with one pair of stripes radiating from foramen (connected dorso­medially); gena and anterior margin of occiput silvery tomentose. Abdomen dark brown with tergite 1 and cerci yellow. Distal 1/5 of wing clouded from costa to R 4+5. Distance between crossveins distinctly longer than length of posterior cross­vein.

Female

Unknown.

Male terminalia

Cerci similar in shape to those of C. nigrithorax . Surstyli concealed. Not dissected.

Distribution: Brazil (Map 3).

Holotype: BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero , Dist. Fed. Brasil, vii.1938, Servico Febre Amarela, M.E.S. Bras. (1♂, USNM).

Figures

FIGURES 10–23: Head and thorax, dorsal colouration of the New World Craspedochaeta without an entirely dark notum; 10: C. xanthonotum spec. nov.; 11: C. festiva (Sóos, 1962); 12: C. loreto spec. nov.; 13: C. trivittata (Sóos, 1962); 14: C. weemsi spec. nov.; 15: C. pacaraima spec. nov.; 16: C. candida spec. nov.; 17: C. apsilutea spec. nov.; 18: C. ornata (Hennig, 1938); 19: C. transversa Czerny, 1903; 20: C. synneura (Hennig, 1938); 21: C. pleuralis (Williston, 1896); 22: C. pollostos spec. nov; 23: C. chela spec. nov, male.