Emmesomyia sobria ( Albuquerque & Couri, 1981 )

Gomes, Roberto Pereira, Fogaça, João Manuel, Bortolanza, Mariza & Pereira, Adriana Couto, 2019, New records of the Brazilian Anthomyiidae (Diptera) and a checklist of species from Palmas Grasslands Wildlife Refuge, Check List 15 (1), pp. 93-103 : 100

Emmesomyia sobria ( Albuquerque & Couri, 1981) Figure 10

Anthojuba sobria Albuquerque and Couri 1981: 157 . Type locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia. Pamplona 1992: 571 (figure, head).

Diagnosis. Antenna yellow. Palpus basally light brown and apically yellow. Flagellomere very enlarged. Thorax yellow with areas of gray pruinosity, presenting dorsally a brown stripe reaching scutellum. Dorsocentral setae 2+3, the presutural first one with half length of the sec- ond one. Katepisternal setae 1+1+1. Suprasquamal ridge bare. Vein dm-cu straight.

Material examined. BRAZIL. Paraná: 1 ♀, Palmas, PGWR, A.C. Pereira col., Ar, 5.iii.2013 (LabDip); 1 ♀, Palmas, PGWR, A.C. Pereira col., Ar, 29.v.2013 (Lab- Dip); 1 ♂, Ponta Grossa, Vila Velha, Reserva IAPAR, BR 376, 18.viii.1986 (PROFAUPAR) ( DZUP); same locality and collector: 1 ♀, 25.viii.1986; 1 ♀, 10.xi.1986; 2 ♀, 22.xii.1986; 1 ♀, 10.xi.1986; 1 ♂, 10.vii.2000; 1 ♀, Guarapuava, Estância Águas Santa Clara, 04.viii.1986 (PROFAUPAR) ( DZUP); same locality and collector: 1 ♀, 25.viii.1986; 1 ♀, 15.ix.1986; 1 ♂, Telêmaco Borba, Reserva Biológica Samuel Klabin, 24.xi.1986 (Entomological surveying PROFAUPAR) ( DZUP); same locality and collector: 1 ♀, 08.xii.1986; 1 ♀, 15.xii.1986; 1 ♀, 17.viii.1987; 1 ♀, 14.ix.1987; 1 ♂, São José dos Pinhais, Serra do Mar, BR 277, km 54, 20.x.1986 (PROFAUPAR) ( DZUP); same locality and collector: 1 ♂, 24.xi.1986 ( DZUP).

Distribution. Brazil (Santa Catarina) ( Albuquerque and Couri, 1981).

Biology. The behavior of Emmesomyia is not well known, species are most likely coprophages in the larval stage, some Oriental species are larviparous ( Ackland 1995).

New record. Paraná (Guarapuava, Palmas, Ponta Grossa, São José dos Pinhais, Telêmaco Borba)

Leucophora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830