Peckia (Peckia) hillifera (Aldrich)

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2013, <strong> Revision of the New World genus <em> Peckia </ em> Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3622 (1), pp. 1-87 : 54-55

Peckia (Peckia) hillifera (Aldrich)

( Figs. 86, 87 ) (figs. 99–99b in Aldrich 1916, figs. 299–301 in Roback 1954, figs. 31–32 in Dodge 1965a)

Sarcophaga hillifera Aldrich, 1916: 210 . USA, Florida, Miami. Holotype male, in USNM (not examined).

Description. Male. Head. Ocellar setae equal to or shorter than postoculars. Outer vertical seta stronger than postoculars. Black orbital setae. Three frontal setae situated below the dorsal limit of the lunule. Genal setae black dorsally, yellow or white ventrally. First two rows of occipital setae black, others yellow. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals = 0 + 1, dorsocentrals = 0 + 2, intra-alars = 2 + 2 (anterior one shorter), supra-alars = 2 + 3, basal scutellars = 3. Prosternum and posterior surface of hind coxa with black setae. White or yellow and black anteroventral scutellar setae. Two katepisternal setae. Postalar wall with only black setae. Lower calypter with a central dark spot and a fringe of long hair-like setae along outer margin, extending to its posterior margin. Mid femur without a ctenidium. Antero-dorsal surface of mid tibia with 1 median seta and 1 apical seta. Hind tibia with 2 setae in the basal third, 1 in the middle third and 1 preapical on antero-dorsal surface. Abdomen. Postero-ventral seams between T3/T4 and T4/T5 parallel. Microtrichosity of the abdomen laterally grey. ST1+3 with only black hair-like setae. Two lateral setae on each side of T4. T5 with grey microtrichosity. Posterior seam of T5 not projected posteriorly and ventrally, and normal setae in postero-ventral area directed posteriorly. Terminalia. ST5 orange. Medial margin of ST5 ∩-shaped. Inner margins of ST5 arms straight. ST5 with a pair of antero-medial ventrally directed apophyses. Inner margins of ST5 arms with a patch of short setae on the anterior region and long hair-like setae distributed anteriorly. Syntergosternite 7+8 longer than high in lateral view, orange, with golden microtrichosity. Epandrium bright orange. Cercus orange proximally and brown or dark brown distally. Cercus in lateral view straight and progressively narrowing towards the apex. Dorsal margin of cercus at midlength with a depression followed by a small and rounded tooth-like projection. Cercal apex acute in lateral view. Surstylus orange, triangular, with a rounded apex, with postero-distal surface less sclerotized (more smooth; lighter and more transparent colour) than the remaining surface. Pregonite triangular, becoming narrower towards the apex, curved in lateral view, with a rounded apex. Postgonite elongated, with a hooked apex. Basi- and distiphallus connected by a desclerotized strip. Juxta with an apical rounded margin and lateral plate distinguishable. Juxta without demarcated connection with the phallic tube, as sclerotized as the phallic tube. Juxtal lateral plate straight in apical view, short and straight, with a uniform outer edge, and an acute apex. Distiphallus with a pair of lateral styli separated, each with a longitudinal cleft, visible in lateral and apical views. Vesica with a rounded lobe proximally and distally composed of two C-like structures connected proximally and each with an acute, hook-shaped apex in lateral view.

Distribution. NEARCTIC— USA (Alabama, Florida). NEOTROPICAL— Bahamas (Bimini Is., Exuma Cays, New Providence), Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico (Tamaulipas), Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago ( Trinidad), Venezuela (Aragua).

Material examined. Bahamas: 1 male, South Bimi Is. B.W.I., vii.1951, C. & P. Vaurie ( MNRJ) . Cuba: 1 male, Las Villas, El Rosario , 23.v.1965, J. Colman ( MNRJ) . 1 male, Provinz Santiago de Cuba, Parque Baconao, ca. 500m W Hotel Los Corales, 5 km W der Lagune Sigua ( Baconao ), 19°77'N 75°31'W, 18–30.xii.1997, A. Stark ( ZMUC) . Jamaica: 1 male, Milk River Bath, 11.iii.1970, Wirth & Farr ( ZMUC) . Panama: 1 male, Colón, Galeta Island , 24.ii.2002, J. Mendéz ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, Colón, San Lorenzo , 07.vii.2000, J. Méndez ( ZMUC) . Venezuela: 1 male, Aragua, Mouth of Río Ocumare, coastal flats nr La Boca , 17–20.xi.1997, T. Pape ( ZMUC) .

Figures

FIGURES 78–89. 78. Peckia (Peckia) uncinata. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 79. Peckia (Peckia) imperialis. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 80. Peckia (Peckia) hirsuta. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 81–82. Peckia (Peckia) rubella. 81. Vesica, dorsal view. 82. Detail of vesica with microtrichia, dorsal view. 83. Peckia (Peckia) amoena. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 84–85. Peckia (Peckia) enderleini. 84. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 85. Male terminalia, ventral view. 86–87. Peckia (Peckia) hillifera. 86. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 87. Distiphallus with an arrow pointing to the subapical undulation of the lateral plate, left ventro-lateral view. 88. Peckia (Peckia) keyensis. 89. Peckia (Peckia) hondurana. Distiphallus and pregonite, left lateral view. (Abbreviations: Ce –cercus, J—juxta, Jlp—juxtal lateral plate, Ls—lateral stylus, Pog—postgonite, Prg—pregonite, Sr—surstylus, V—vesica.)