Dolichocolon cantrelli, Cerretti & Shima, 2011

Cerretti, Pierfilippo & Shima, Hiroshi, 2011, World revision of Dolichocolon Brauer & Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae: Exoristinae: Goniini), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (3), pp. 544-584 : 573-575

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00689.x

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10545800

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A887E7-CC16-FFE3-FCEA-825B9CCDFA61

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Valdenar

scientific name

Dolichocolon cantrelli
status

sp. nov.

DOLICHOCOLON CANTRELLI SP. NOV.

( FIG. 20A–E View Figure 20 )

Type material: Holotype ♂: [ Australia] Ingham [18°39′S 146°09′E] Q/ 26 May 1961 / R Straatman [ ANIC] GoogleMaps . Paratypes: Australia: 1 ♂, Northern Territory, Surprise Creek, 16.2SS 136.0SE, 45 km south-west of Borroloola , ix.1975, M.S. Upton [ ANIC] . Papua New Guinea: 1 ♂, Leiwomba Plain, 7.5.57, Coll J H Ardley [ DASF] . Taiwan: 2 ♂♂, Takao [= Kaohsiung,: 22°37′N 120°16′E], 14.xii.1907 [one specimen without terminalia] [ USNM] GoogleMaps .

Etymology: Named after the Australian dipterist Bryan K. Cantrell, who first figured the male terminalia of this species ( Cantrell, 1988).

Description: Body length: 6.5 - 7.9 mm. Coloration and pruinescence: Head mostly black, covered with grey pruinescence. Palpus mainly brown, shading into yellowish just distally. Scape and pedicel varying from brown to fuscous red. Thorax mainly black; posterior 2/3 (or more) of scutellum reddishyellow; scutum with four presutural dark vittae, lateral vitta distinctly outlined and ending wedgeshaped beside posthumeral seta. Legs black. Tegula and basicosta black or dark brown. Abdomen black, more or less reddish laterally on tergites 3 and 4; tergites 3-5 with transverse bands of whitish-grey pruinescence on anterior 1/3–2/3 ( Fig. 20A, B View Figure 20 ); transverse bands on tergites 3 and 4 more or less interrupted mediodorsally, showing a narrow longitudinal black vitta.

Head: Compound eye bare. Second aristomere 6.5-10.0 times as long as wide. Thickened part of third aristomere about 0.6-0.7 times as long as second aristomere. Postpedicel 6.5-7.1 times as long as pedicel. Vertex at its narrowest point 1.00-1.15 times as wide as compound eye in dorsal view. Lateral vertical seta not or slightly differentiated from postocular setae. Six to eight frontal setae descending below level of base of arista. Fronto-orbital plate with one irregular row of medioclinate setae or setulae lateral to row of frontal setae. Gena in profile about 0.2 times (or less) as high as compound eye. Postocular setae fine, relatively long, slightly bent forwards. Prementum about 1.0–1.5 times as long as wide.

Abdomen: Syntergite 1 + 2 with short and weak median marginal setae, only slightly differentiated from marginal setulae. Tergite 3 with one pair of median marginal setae about as long as 2/5-3/5 of corresponding tergite. Tergite 4 with a row of nine to 12 marginal setae shorter than corresponding tergite. Tergite 5 with a row of marginal and discal setae.

Male terminalia ( Fig. 20C–E View Figure 20 ): Epandrium short, subglobular ( Fig. 20C View Figure 20 ). Hypandrial arms long, apically slightly bent anteriorly. Distal 1/4 of cerci not strongly

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separated. Cerci, in lateral view, strongly bent posterodorsally and widened apically, basally evenly convex ( Fig. 20C–E View Figure 20 ). Distal 1/3 of surstylus strongly bent posterodorsally and twisted medially of about 90° (or more) ( Fig. 20D, E View Figure 20 ); basal 2/3 massive and well characterized by a strong laterobasal, horn-like apophysis (slightly bent medially ( Fig. 20C–E View Figure 20 ), entirely covered with fine, dense, setae.

Hosts: Unknown.

Distribution: Australasian: Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory), Papua New Guinea. Oriental: Taiwan.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

DASF

Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

Genus

Dolichocolon

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