Kelloggina laemmerti Lane & d’Andretta, 1956

Gil-Azevedo, Leonardo Henrique & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2021, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Blephariceridae (Diptera) in the collection of Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 61, pp. 1-19 : 10-13

Kelloggina laemmerti Lane & d’Andretta, 1956 ( Fig. 7 )

Lane & d’Andretta (1956: 190, fig. 8). Hogue (1971: 5).

Types in MZSP: HOLOTYPE ( Fig. 7 ): 1 ♂ (# MZ 006172) from Brazil, RJ, Itatiaia , Rio Campo Belo, 1,800 m a.s.l.,

II/1941, Raymond C. Shannon & Hugo Laemmert coll. PARATYPE: 1 ♂, same data of holotype.

Diagnosis: Male ( Fig. 7 ): General coloration yellow. Head: Front brown and clypeus yellow. Eyes broadly contiguous and narrowly separated above; upper portion quite larger than the lower one. Antenna with 14 segments, scape and pedicel brown, flagellum black. Proboscis distinctly longer than head. Palpus with four black segments. Thorax: Pronotum yellow. Scutum yellow, with a broad median and 1+1 lateral brown stripes. Scutellum yellow. Pleura yellow with light brown areas. Legs: Coxae, trochanters, femora, tibiae, and tarsi yellow. Hind tibia with two spurs. Hind last tarsal segment with a bristly basal enlargement. Wing hyaline, with costal cell yellowish. Vein m-m absent, only a stump on M₄ vein.

Distribution: BRAZIL: RJ (Itatiaia).

Remarks: Female unknown. Lane & d’Andretta (1956) listed an additional 12 ♂ paratypes. Four male paratypes were lost during the MNRJ fire. The other eight were not examined.

Figures

Figure 7. Holotype male of Kelloggina laemmerti Lane & d’Andretta, 1956: (A) Habitus, lateral view; (B) Habitus, dorsal view; (C) Wing; (D) Head, frontal view; (E) Male terminalia;(F) Labels.Scale bars:A, C = 2 mm; B = 1 mm;D = 0.5 mm;E = 0.2 mm.