Chrysopilus camargoi, Santos, Charles Morphy D. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2007

Santos, Charles Morphy D. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2007, Chrysopilus (Diptera: Rhagionidae) from Brazil: redescription of Chrysopilus fascipennis Bromley and description of eleven new species, Zootaxa 1510, pp. 1-33 : 19-22

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.177231

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6248639

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87DF-FF84-ED57-2B98-F90DFE0DFE37

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Plazi

scientific name

Chrysopilus camargoi
status

sp. nov.

Chrysopilus camargoi View in CoL sp. n.

Figures 57–65 View FIGURES 57 – 60 View FIGURES 61 – 65

Material. Holotype ɗ, BRAZIL, State of Rio de Janeiro, Itatiaia, Maromba, 22º 22’S 44º 37’W, VIII/1946, Barreto col. ( MZSP); paratypes: 2 ɗ and 1 Ψ, same as holotype ( MZSP).

Diagnosis. Wing hyaline with brownish antero-distal macula; R2+3 reaching C far from R1, with wide distal concavity; areas around crossveins r-m and m-m pigmented; pterostigma rounded, large; meso-anterior incision of tergite IX on male rather short; many golden setae on scutum, scutellum and abdomen.

Male. Body length, 9.0–10.0 mm. Wing length, 5.8–6.2 mm. General color brownish gray. Eyes and ocelli brownish yellow, facets homogenous, ocellar tubercle gray. Gena gray, clypeus bare and brown. Antenna brownish yellow arista darker; scape bare, half the length of pedicel; pedicel approximately oval; first flagellomere oval, as long as pedicel ( Figure 58 View FIGURES 57 – 60 ), with many golden setae. Maxillary palpus long, slender ( Figure 59 View FIGURES 57 – 60 ). Proboscis and labella brownish to yellow. Occiput gray, with dark setae.

Thorax dark brown, scutellum lighter than scutum, with many golden setae. Halter bare, knob yellowish, stem darker. Coxae brownish gray, femora and tibiae yellowish. Wing hyaline with antero-distal brownish macula ( Figure 57 View FIGURES 57 – 60 ); pterostigma rounded, large; areas around crossveins m-m and r-m pigmented; R2+3 reaching C far from R1, with wide distal concavity; R4 forking with almost right angle, without short appendage, with distal fold toward anterior margin; CuA2 and A1 fusing far from margin; crossvein m-m far from origin of M2.

Abdomen brownish gray, with golden setae on tergites. Gonocoxite and gonostylus brown; gonocoxite longer than wide; gonostylus long, slightly rounded distally, covered with long setae, a group of fine setae medially; aedeagus long; ejaculatory and gonocoxal apodemes relatively short, gonocoxal apodeme curved outwards; lateral ejaculatory process wide, curved inward ( Figure 61 View FIGURES 61 – 65 ); meso-anterior incision of tergite IX short ( Figure 62 View FIGURES 61 – 65 ); cercus brown.

Female. Body length, 10.0 mm. Wing length, 7.0 mm. Gena yellowish gray. Thorax and abdomen similar to male. Anterior margin of sternite VIII rounded, hypogynial valves with 7-8 long setae ( Figure 64 View FIGURES 61 – 65 ); genital fork with anterior portion acuminate, distal apodeme short and curved ( Figure 65 View FIGURES 61 – 65 ); cercus two-segmented, distal segment suboval ( Figure 63 View FIGURES 61 – 65 ); long common spermathecal and spermathecal ducts; spermathecae spherical ( Figure 60 View FIGURES 57 – 60 ).

Distribution. This species is known only from the type-locality.

Etymology. The species is named after the Brazilian entomologist Dr. João M. F. Camargo, eminent Meliponinae bee systematist.

MZSP

Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Rhagionidae

Genus

Chrysopilus

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