Eibesfeldtphora breviloba Brown

Brown, Brian V., Braganca, Marcos A. L., Gomes, Diego S., Queiros, Jarbas M. & Teixeira, Marcos C., 2012, Parasitoid phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from the threatened leafcutter ant Atta robusta Borgmeier (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Zootaxa 3385, pp. 33-38 : 34-35

Eibesfeldtphora breviloba Brown new species

Fig. 1 .

Diagnosis. This species is distinctive by the thin elongate dorsal process and shorter, but still thin ventral process of the oviscape. It is most similar to E. tonhascai (Brown) , differing in the much shorter ventral process, and to E. declinata (Borgmeier) , differing by the thinner processes of the oviscape. In the key of Brown (2001), E. breviloba keys to couplets 5, where it comes closest to E. tonhascai .

Description. Female. Body length 2.1–2.6 mm. Apex of foretarsomere 5 not narrowed. Costa ratio 0.41–0.44 wing length. Oviscape with two short processes; dorsal process dorsoventrally flattened in posterior view; ventral process rounded in posterior view, largely fused to oviscape. Both processes with fine apical setae.

Derivation of specific epithet. Named for the short lobes of the oviscape.

Holotype. Ƥ, BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro, 23°01’S, 43°28’W), 10.i.2010, D. da Silva Gomes [barcode: LACM ENT 305110] (MZSP).

Paratypes. 2 Ƥ, same data as holotype (LACM, MZSP).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 3. Female phorid fly oviscapes, lateral. 1. Eibesfeldtphora breviloba; 2. Eibesfeldtphora digitalis; 3. Myrmosicarius exrobustus.