Syllimnophora clavitibia ( Stein, 1911 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Zoologia (e 46879) 37, pp. 1-57 : 44

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13176217

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Syllimnophora clavitibia ( Stein, 1911 )
status

 

Syllimnophora clavitibia ( Stein, 1911) View in CoL

Figs 169–172

Paralectotypes. 5 males, 3 females. Lectotype in SMT, designated by Pont, 2001 a: 467). Bolivia and Peru .

Diagnosis. Length of body. 5.5–6.0 mm (male, female). Head. Frons broad in both sexes, about one-third of head-width. Frons brown. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, face and gena brown, silver pruinose from certain angles. Ocellar triangle silver puinose, broad, reaching lunule. Ocellar setae very long and with some additional setulae. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, bare. Palpus dark brown. Oral margin projecting forwards, and with many black setae besides the vibrissa. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, with 2 silver pruinose vittae along dorsocentral rows of setae. Postpronotum and notopleuron silver pruinose. Dorsocentrals 2+3. Haltere brown. Calypters white. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 1 posterior seta; in male enlarged on apical third and with many short setae on all surfaces, longer apicad. Hind femur with an anteroventral row of setae on apical half. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal setae on middle third; 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. M slightly curved forward close to apex. Abdomen. Dark brown, with a median silver pruinose vitta and lateral spots on all tergites.

Remarks. The species can be immediately recognized in the male by the enlarged apical third of mid tibia, with many short setae in all surfaces which become longer apicad. It can be identified with the key by Stein (1911, as Limnophora clavitibia ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Syllimnophora

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