Grallipeza pleuritica (Johnson)

Marshall, S. A., 2013, Grallipeza Rondani (Diptera: Micropezidae: Taeniapterinae) of the Caribbean and North America, Zootaxa 3682 (1), pp. 45-84 : 77-78

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BCEA9C83-9664-4A40-9BC2-A7D56BB134B4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6154173

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F78361-FF9B-FF8C-FF44-11C6FC8BFCBA

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scientific name

Grallipeza pleuritica (Johnson)
status

 

Grallipeza pleuritica (Johnson) View in CoL

Calobata pleuritica Johnson, 1894:279 View in CoL .

Grallipeza pleuritica, Steyskal, 1968 View in CoL :48.8.

Description (from type photographs and original description): Colour: Head, including frontal vitta and palpus, almost entirely orange, only ocellar triangle black; clypeus shining dark brown, darker laterally. Fore femur yellowish brown, darker distally; fore tibia black, basal fore tarsomeres white, distal tarsomeres brown (not seen; from original description). Hind tarsomeres uniformly brown. Thorax with notum blue-black, shining; pleuron reddish. Katepisternal bristles golden. Abdomen black.

Head: Arista conspicuously long haired at least over basal half. Frontal vitta broadest in front of ocelli, slightly tapered anteriorly, slightly narrowed behind ocelli and and slightly expanded at posterior margin.

Thorax: Fore femur with only small ventral setulae. One dorsocentral bristle.

Wing: Anal cell setulose, wing membrane with a diffuse discal band extending from M to C.

Male abdomen: Epandrium small, narrow, about 2.5 times as long as broad, shorter than T6.

Type material: Johnson indicates a type series of “upwards of thirty specimens” including males and females. Photographs on the Museum of Comparative Zoology web site illustrate one of the male syntypes (http:// insects.oeb.harvard.edu/mcz).

This specimen, bearing the labels “ Type 13324” “ JAMAICA ”, Type C.W. Johnson” and “ pleuritica ”, is here designated lectotype of Calobata pleuritica Johnson.

Comments: Johnson describes this species on the basis of “upwards of thirty specimens” from Port Antonio, Jamaica. Grallipeza pleuritica is distinctive in colour and the type photographs posted by MCZ are excellent, so there seems to be no problem with either diagnosing or defining this species. Only four Jamaican Grallipeza specimens were available for study, and none correspond to G. pleuritica . These specimens represent two species that differ widely from one another, and from G. pleuritica , in head colour, chaetotaxy, abdominal tergites and other features; they are described as new here as G. cliffi and G. marleyi .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Micropezidae

Genus

Grallipeza

Loc

Grallipeza pleuritica (Johnson)

Marshall, S. A. 2013
2013
Loc

Calobata pleuritica

Johnson 1894: 279
1894
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