Camarota cylindrica Deeming, 1981

Riccardi, Paula Raile & Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, 2018, Revision of Camarota Meigen (Diptera: Chloropidae), with a new species from Uganda, Zootaxa 4526 (2), pp. 221-231 : 228

Camarota cylindrica Deeming, 1981

( Figs. 4 , 7, 12, 14 , 19 )

Deeming, 1981: 790–793, 820; Ferrar, 1987: 115 (data after Deeming); Nartshuk, 1987: 147 (predatory development); Nartshuk, 2014: 84, 86 and 2014: 517, 521 [one time erroneously as C. angustipennis Deeming ] (predatory development).

Material examined: 2 ♂ Uganda, District Masindi, Budongo forest, 1082m a.s.l., 1°43’N 31°33’E, 15–25.i.1997, canopy fogging of Cynometra alexandri (Fabaceae) , Thomas Wagner leg. [MZUSP] (photo, wing and abdomen dissected). Further material in the von Tschirnhaus collection: 14 specimens from Rwanda, Préfecture Rusuma, Ibanda Makera, 2°09’S 30°55’E, 1,350 m a.s.l., 7.xi.1993, gallery forest, canopy fogging from Tecla nobilis ( Rutaceae ), Thomas Wagner leg. [ZSM].

Distribution. Cameroun, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda *.

Comments. The wings of C. meghalayensis and C. thenmalaensis are similar to C. cylindrica , with vena spuria less conspicuous, R 4+5 almost reaching the wing apex and M 1 curved apically.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Camarota species. 1A; 1C, C. curvipennis habitus. 1B, C. curvipennis antenna (modified from Balachowsky & Mesnil, 1935). 2, C. angustifrons habitus. 3, C. ugandae sp. nov. habitus. 4, C. cylindrica habitus. Scale bar 1 mm. The arrow points to the transverse stripe on the third aristomere.

FIGURES 5–14. Camarota species. 5–8, head in dorsal view. 5, C. curvipennis. 6, C. ugandae sp. nov. 7, C. cylindrica. 8, C. angustifrons. 9, C. ugandae sp. nov., scutellum. 10–14, wing. 10, C. curvipennis. 11; 14, C. ugandae sp. nov. 12; 13, C. cylindrica.

FIGURES 15–19. Camarota postabdomen. 15, male terminalia of C. curvipennis, ventral view. 16–17, female terminalia of C. curvipennis. 16, dorsal view. 17, ventral view. 18, male terminalia of C. ugandae, ventral view. 19, male terminalia of C. cylindrica, ventral view. Scale bar 0.1 mm. Abbreviations: b sc, bacilliform sclerite; bas, basiphallus; cer, cercus; dis, distiphallus; ep, epandrium; epi, epiproct; hyp, hypandrium; hypo, hypoproct; mes, mesolobus; phal, phallapodeme; phal sc, phallapodemic sclerite; pog, postgonite; prg, pregonite; st, sternite; sur, surstylus; t, tergite.