Monoclona, Mik, 1886

Amaral, Edna Maria, Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira & Falaschi, Rafaela Lopes, 2022, An unknown world in the Neotropical region: a complete life cycle of a new species of Monoclona Mik, 1886 (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae), Zootaxa 5091 (1), pp. 107-130 : 127

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5FE5AE8D-E0E3-4FEE-B452-F8D710D72451

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5843662

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F26D10-FFEA-7168-E8F6-7A278CEAF43B

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Monoclona
status

 

Key for the males of the Neotropical species of Monoclona View in CoL View at ENA

1 Three ocelli......................................................................................... 2

- Two ocelli ( Figs. 5–6 View FIGURES 5–6 ).................................................................................. 3

2(1) Palpus black. Thorax yellow. Dark brown abdomen with triangular yellow spots at the base of the tergites. Male terminalia yellow............................................................... Monoclona abdominalis Fisher, 1939 .

- Palpus yellow. Thorax brown. Dark brown abdomen with yellow bristles. Male terminalia dark brown........................................................................................... Monoclona tapicarei Lane, 1952 View in CoL .

3(1) Tergite 1 black or brown............................................................................... 4

- Tergite 1 yellow or whitish ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 3–4 )....................................................................... 6

4(3) Distal apex of hind tibia black. Tergite 8 without a row of strong bristles on a truncate distal end, gonocoxite with a pair of short median processes with long bristles........................................ Monoclona bicolor ( Enderlein, 1910) View in CoL .

- Hind tibia entirely yellow. Male genitalia not as above....................................................... 5

5(4) Abdomen with tergite 1 brown, tergites 2–6 mainly blackish, anterior and posterior borders yellow, tergite 7 entirely yellow. Male genitalia dark brown or black.............. Monoclona digitata Edwards, 1940 View in CoL ( Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 29).

- Abdomen with tergites 1, 2, 6, and 7 entirely dark brown or black, tergites 3–5 black with a yellow basal band. Male terminalia black................................... Monoclona trifasciata Edwards, 1940 View in CoL ( Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 32).

6(3) Abdomen completely black except for yellow tergite 1............................................................................................... Monoclona nigriventris Edwards, 1940 View in CoL ( Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 31).

- Abdomen not entirely black............................................................................ 7

7(6) Head yellow with a dark brown area surrounding ocelli. Abdomen with tergites 1, 6, and 7 yellow, tergites 2–5 yellow at the median region with black spots laterally. Male terminalia entirely dark brown or black........................................................................ Monoclona maculata Edwards, 1933 View in CoL ( Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 30).

- Head entirely yellow ( Figs. 5–6 View FIGURES 5–6 ). Abdomen with tergite 1 whitish, tergites 2–5 shining dark-brown with a yellow slender transverse band along posterior margin, tergite 6 yellow with brown blurred rounded marks mesally, tergite 7 yellow ( Figs. 3–4 View FIGURES 3–4 ). Male terminalia yellow basally and brown distally ( Figs. 7–12 View FIGURES 7–8 View FIGURES 9–10 View FIGURES 11–12 )..................... Monoclona carambeiensis View in CoL sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

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