Neorhinotora, Menezes & Calhau & Ale-Rocha, 2021

Menezes, Isis Sá, Calhau, Julia & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2021, Description of a new species of Neorhinotora Lopes, 1934 (Diptera: Heleomyzidae) from Central America, Zootaxa 4969 (3), pp. 581-586 : 585

Identification key to species of Neorhinotora

1. Wing with three or more supernumerary veins in cell r 1 ( Fig. 1C )............................................... 2

- Supernumerary veins absent ( Fig. 1a , Almeida & Ale-Rocha, 2008) or at most one present and incomplete in cell r 1 ( Fig. 1 G, H )................................................................................................. 3

2. Wing with five supernumerary veins and smoky brown spots; surstylus with two projections, one facing the dorsal surface and the other, much smaller in size, facing the ventral surface in lateral view (Fig. 92.7, McAlpine, 1981)..................................................................................................... N. diversa (Giglio-Tos)

- Wing with three supernumerary veins, dark spots only on transverse veins and distally on R 4+5 and M 1 veins ( Fig 1A, F ); surstylus geniculate in lateral view ( Fig. 2D )........................................... N. elsalvadorensis sp. nov.

3. Arista micropubescent; wing with two well-defined spots on dm-cu and at distal end of R 4+5 and M 1, these spots connected to each other ( Fig. 1d , Almeida & Ale-Rocha, 2008)............................................ N. mutica (Schiner)

- Arista glabrous; wing with inconspicuous spots in dm-cu and at distal end of R 4+5 and M 1, these spots not connected to each other ( Figs. 1a, b , Almeida & Ale-Rocha, 2008)............................................................. 4

4. Surstylus with two projection, one facing the dorsal surface and the other, smaller in length, facing the ventral surface in lateral view ( Figs. 2a, e , Almeida & Ale-Rocha, 2008)............................... N. amapaensis Guimarães & Papavero

- Surstylus trifid (Figs. 4a, e, Almeida & Ale-Rocha, 2008)..................................... N. aristalis (Fischer)

Figures

FIGURE 1. Neorhinotora elsalvadorensis sp. nov. (♂ holotype, USNM). A. Lateral habitus; B. Head, lateral view; C. Head, frontal view; D. Dorsal habitus; E. Abdomen, dorsal view; F. Right wing, dorsal view (♂ paratype, USNM); G–H. Left and right wings of Neorhinotora aristalis from Brazil—Amazonas, dorsal view (♂, INPA); I. Left wing of Neorhinotora aristalis from Panama—Barro Colorado Island, dorsal view (♂, USNM). Arrow indicates the supernumerary veins.

FIGURE 2. Male terminaliaof Neorhinotora elsalvadorensis sp. nov. A. Protandrium, dorsal view; B. Sternite 5; C. Protandrium, ventral view; D. Epandrium, lateral view; E. Epandrium, ventral view; F. Epandrium, dorsal view; G. Genitalia, ventral view; H. Genitalia, lateral view; I. Genitalia, dorsal view. Scale = 0.1 mm. Abbreviations: an: anus; avm: anteroventral margin of hypandrium; bac scl: bacilliform sclerite; cerc: cercus; ej apod: ejaculatory apodeme; epand: epandrium; hypd: hypandrium; hypd arm: hypandrial arm; pgt: postgonite; ph: phallus; phapod: phallapodeme; pregt:pregonite; spm dt: sperm duct; spm sac: sperm sac; st: sternite; sur: surstylus; syntgst: syntergosternite; tg: tergite; vpl: ventral plate of hypandrium.