Coenosia velutinifacies

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2016, Species of Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) described by Fritz van Emden from the British Museum Ruwenzori Expedition of 1934 – 1935, Zootaxa 4144 (4), pp. 529-555 : 554

Coenosia velutinifacies ( Emden, 1940: 221; 1941: 225)

( Figs 125–127 )

Holotype male seen; right mid leg missing, abdomen a little damaged.

Diagnosis. General colour dark brown, a little shining; scutum and abdomen uniformly brown, without markings; frons, fronto-orbital plate, face and parafacial velvety black; postpedicel velvety black; wing infuscated; calypters very white; legs entirely dark brown; scutellum with four strong setae, and with setulae on disc; anterior katepisternal short, lower one about half the length of the long posterior one; upper calypter short, lower calypter about 2.5 times the length of the upper one and strongly projecting beyond it; haltere with knob brown; hind tibia with an anterior and an anterodorsal seta inserted at the same level; sternite 5 as in Fig. 125 .

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 126 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 127 .

Notes. Included in the niveifrons group. The name was made available by its inclusion in Emden’s (1940) key, whilst the formal description appeared a year later ( Emden 1941). One male (not a paratype) dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 125 – 127. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in lateral view: 125 – 127. Coenosia velutinifacies (Emden).