Glaphyropyga andina, Sánchez, 2024

Sánchez, Pável, 2024, Two new species of Glaphyropyga Schiner (Diptera: Asilidae: Asilinae) from Peru, Zootaxa 5399 (3), pp. 241-253 : 243-245

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.3.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10516770

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Glaphyropyga andina
status

sp. nov.

Glaphyropyga andina sp. nov. ( Figs 5–19 View FIGURES 5–10 View FIGURES 17–19 ).

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Diagnosis. Apical scutellar macrosetae absent; abdomen dark brown, almost entirely golden pruinose with a ferruginous aspect; epandrium spatulate apically; R 4+5 bifurcation anterior to the apex of cell d; gonocoxite with pointed apex; spermathecae fusiform.

Description of male holotype. Lengths. Body: 12.5 mm; wing: 10 mm.

Head. ( Figs 6–7 View FIGURES 5–10 ) Slightly wider than high; antenna black, scape and pedicel black setose, the former about 1.5 times the length of the latter; postpedicel about twice the length of scape and pedicel combined; stylus short, about two thirds the length of pedicel and composed of two articles, first minute, about a third the length of second, the latter with a preapical seta-like sensorial element about half its length, placed dorsally and extending little beyond its apex ( Fig. 8a View FIGURES 5–10 ); face narrow, about a ninth the width of head, predominantly silver pruinose, with sparse pale golden pruinosity; facial gibbosity weakly developed, restricted to lower third of head; mystax also restricted to lower third of head, predominantly with white macrosetae, except on sides, with yellow macrosetae; ocellar tubercle with sloping sides, two black ocellar setae; postocular macrosetae black above and yellowish bellow, occiput white setose, covered with gray pruinosity; palpus black, yellowish setose; proboscis black, labial setae yellow. Thorax. Dark brown, golden cinereous pruinose, except the dark paramedial and lateral mesonotal stripes; scutellum with impressed rim. Chaetotaxy: Pronotum yellowish setose, two pairs of yellowish macrosetae on antepronotum; postpronotal lobe yellowish setose; scutum with black macrosetae, two notopleural, one supraalar and two postalar; only postsutural dorsocentral macrosetae present; scutellar disc with very few short black setae, some apical scutellar black setae, the central pair slightly longer, though not bristly; pleura yellowish setose, katatergal macrosetae yellow; anatergite bare. Wing. ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 5–10 ) Yellowish, with metallic reflections; microtrichia on anteroapical margin extend partially to apical regions of r 1 and r 2+3; R 2+3 more or less straight; R 4+5 bifurcation anterior to level of apex of cell d; crossvein r-m slightly posterior to middle of cell d; R 4 ends slightly below the wing apex; cell r 4 narrow basally; R 5 slightly sinuous near to base; m–m about three times the length of r–m and four times that of M 2 base; haltere yellowish. Legs. Slender, yellow, except mid and hind femora, with a brown dorsal stripe, and hind tibia and tarsi, brown; hind femur basally attenuated; claws black, empodia and pulvilli yellowish. Chaetotaxy: Black setose; macrosetae yellowish, fore femur with two ventral and two posterodorsal; mid femur with three ventral, six anteroventral, three anterior and one posterodorsal, subapical; hind femur with two anterior, five ventral, and dorsally one subapical on each side; fore tibia with one dorsal and two ventral, long; mid tibia with two ventral and one posteroventral; hind tibia with three dorsal and one ventral. Abdomen. Slender, dark brown, except posterior margins of segments 2-5, yellow; segments 1-7 golden pruinose, yellowish setose; tergites 2-5 with two posterolateral yellowish macrosetae; segment 8 apruinose, black setose. Terminalia. ( Figs 9 View FIGURES 5–10 , 11–13) Dark brown, short; epandrium thin, slightly curved downwards towards apex, with black and yellow setae; hypandrium subrectangular, broad, twice as wide as long, posterior margin yellowish setose; gonocoxite subrectangular (Fig. 14), apex pointed posteriorly and curved towards inner side, gonocoxal apodeme absent; gonostylus yellowish, apex attenuated and curved upwards; phallus with only one prong (Figs 15–16), medially expanded in dorsal view; ejaculatory apodeme narrow, inserted about at the middle of the phallus.

Female. ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 17–19 ). Similar to male, except for the following: Face mainly golden pruinose; seta-like sensorial element of stylus placed apically ( Fig. 8b View FIGURES 5–10 ); mystacal macrosetae mainly yellow, except some lateral ones, black. Terminalia ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 17–19 ) with segment eight short, half the length of the former one, apruinose; arms of genital fork parallel-sided, genital fork apodeme broad and blunt; common duct short; individual ducts four times as long as common duct; spermathecae fusiform ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17–19 ).

Variation. Lateral macrosetae of mystax vary from yellow to black. A male specimen presents the legs predominantly yellow, with the dorsal stripe on mid and hind femur less conspicuous.

Etymology. A feminine adjective in the singular form that comes from the Latin word andinus, which means pertaining to the Andes Mountains; referring to the distribution of the species.

Distribution. ( Fig. 34 View FIGURE 34 ). Kosñipata Valley, Paucartambo, Cuzco, Peru.

Type material. 28 ♁, 3 ♀. Holotype: PERU, CU [Cuzco] Valle de Kosñipata C.I. Wayqecha 13°10’31” [South], 71°34’53” [West] 2692 m 06.i.2008 C. Castillo / HOLOTYPE ♁ Glaphyropyga andina Sánchez ( MUSM) . GoogleMaps Paratypes: Same data as holotype (1 ♀, 15 ♁) ; PERU, CU. Valle de Kosñipata, Rocotal 2052 m, 13°06’48”, 71°34’13”, 07.i.2008 C. Castillo / PARATYPE (9 ♁, 1 ♀) Glaphyropyga andina Sánchez ( MUSM) GoogleMaps ; same as previous, except for date of collection, 10.xii.2007 (3♁, 1 ♀).

Holotype condition. Detached terminalia and right wing pinned along with specimen.

MUSM

Peru, Lima, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museo de Historia Natural

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Genus

Glaphyropyga

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