Scaptomyza brachycerca Hardy, 1965

Rampasso, Augusto Santos & O’Grady, Patrick Michael, 2025, Review of Hawaiian Elmomyza species (Diptera, Drosophilidae, Scaptomyza). I. The cyrtandrae, exigua, and obscuricornis species groups, with the descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 5729 (1), pp. 1-42 : 26-27

Scaptomyza brachycerca Hardy, 1965

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Scaptomyza brachycerca Hardy, 1965: 660 .

Diagnosis. Epandrium broad, with a ventral lobe. Surstylus is large, curved and with a well-developed ventral lobe in posterior view. A marginal row of ten surstylar teeth is distributed in the middle portion of the surstylus. A group of long bristles is found in the ventral lobe.

Distribution. Hawaiian Islands : Hawaiʻi.

Ecology. Unknown.

Types. The holotype male (6511, on pin) and allotype female (6511a, on pin) are deposited in the BPBM (not examined). Kaʻula Gulch , Hawaiʻi, 6,990 ft. [ 2,130 m], Aug 1952, D. E. Hardy col.

Material Examined. Paratype. 1 ♂ ( UHIM2015.00322 ), Kīlauea , Hawaiʻi, 11 Oct 1929, Silene sp .

( Caryophyllaceae ), O. H. Swezey col., D. E. Hardy det.

Figures

FIGURE 18. Habitus of Scaptomyza brachycerca Hardy, 1965 (specimen UHIM2015.00322, [paratype]), in dorsal (A) and right lateral (B) views. Scale bar = 1 mm. Male terminalia of the respective individual in posterior (C), oblique posterior (D) and left lateral (E) views. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.