Artemita podexargenteus, Enderlein, 1914

Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Zichinelli, Marcela Maria Parada & Barrett, Bolívar Rafael Garcete, 2022, An illustrated checklist of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Paraguay with three new synonyms and 22 new records of species for the country, Zootaxa 5190 (1), pp. 1-55 : 22-23

podexargenteus Enderlein, 1914 ( Fig. 79 )

Artemita podexargenteus Enderlein, 1914a: 304 . Holotype: female (MZPW). Type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina.

= Artemita bicolor Kertész, 1914: 482 . Syntype: 1 male (HNHM, destroyed, according to Woodley 2011: 398). Type locality: Bolivia, Coroico ; Syntype: 1 female ( HNHM, destroyed, according Woodley 2011: 398). Type locality : Brazil, Espírito Santo. Syn. by Ururahy-Rodrigues (2004: 398).

References. Kertész, 1914: 461–462 (in key to species); 485 (list, A. podexargenteus ); James, 1967: 98 ( A. podexargenteus , mentioned to occur in Paraguay); James, 1971: 62 (in key to species), 68–69 ( A. podexargenteus , record from Paraguay); James, 1973a: 26.50–51 (cat.); Woodley, 2001: 84–85 (cat.); Ururahy-Rodrigues, 2004: 398 (suppl. descr., A. bicolor syn. of A. podexargenteus , figs 1–19); Woodley, 2011: 398 (cat.).

Material examined. Paraguay: 1 ♀, [Alto Paraná], Ciudad del Este , ii.1992, Bolívar Garcete col. ( MEL). 1 ♀ , San Pedro, Santa Rosa del Aguaray, Rancho Laguna Blanca , 23°48’S 56°17”W, 13–14.ix.2017, B. Garcete coll. ( MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX2087) .

Distribution. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (Alto Paraná: Ciudad del Este; Itapúa: Hohenau; San Pedro: Santa Rosa del Aguaray), Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Comments. In James (1971), he states on page 69, in the last line before the references, “Hohenan alta” as the locality in Paraguay, which should be read as Hohenau, department of Itapúa. Images of the specimen from Ciudad del Este , Alto Paraná San Pedro, Paraguay can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114959489.

Figures

FIGURES 73–84. Stratiomyid species, habitus dorsal. 73. Hermetia illucens (Linnaeus, 1758), female. 74. Hermetia pulchra Wiedemann, 1830, female. 75–76. Hermetia teevani Curran, 1934, male and female, respectively. 77. Nemotelus sp. 1, female. 78. Acanthinomyia elongata (Wiedemann, 1824), male. 79. Artemita podexargenteus Enderlein, 1914, female. 80. Panacris nigribasis Lindner, 1949, male. 81. Raphiocera armata (Wiedemann, 1830), male. 82. Acrochaeta fasciata Wiedemann, 1830, male. 83. Merosargus cingulatus Schiner, 1868, male. 84. Merosargus coxalis Lindner, 1949, male. Scale bar, 1 mm.