Hypocritanus Miranda, 2020
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.2.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4449979 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AB1A78F5-66E2-49EB-A5C5-2CD64292DD39 |
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Plazi |
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Hypocritanus Miranda |
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gen. nov. |
Genus Hypocritanus Miranda View in CoL View at ENA gen. nov.
Figs 12–15 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 , 84–85 View FIGURES 78–88. 78
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Type species: Baccha fascipennis Wiedemann, 1830
Ocyptamus fascipennis species group. Mengual et al. (2018)
Description. Head. Face narrow (between 1/4 and 1/3 of head width) and either pale or mostly dark ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 78–88. 78 ); tubercle on ventral 1/2 of the face ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 78–88. 78 ). Frons ~1/3 of head width. Antennal insertions confluent ( Fig. 84 View FIGURES 78–88. 78 ). Female ocellar triangle ~1 ocellus-width from lateral eye margin. Dorsal occiput with 1 row of pile ( Fig. 85 View FIGURES 78–88. 78 ). Thorax. Scutum dark, and with anterior row of longer pile (’collar’ of authors, see Fig. 49 View FIGURES 48–60 in Mengual et al. 2018). Scutellum mostly pale but darker laterally. Anterior anepisternum pilose. Katatergite with long microtrichia (as in Fig. 62 View FIGURES 61–67. 61 ). Metaepisternum pilose. Metasternum bare. Upper calypter margin with pile shorter than pile on the ventral calypter margin. Male metafemur with longer pile on anterior surface. Wing. *Alula mostly bare except for apical 1/4. Wing hyaline with a median dark triangular marking ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ); *most of cells c, br and bm bare. Abdomen. Abdomen elongated, narrow, and slightly petiolate ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ); terga with either quadrangular or triangular pale maculae baso-laterally ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ). Terminalia. Female tergum 7 rectangular and wide; tergum 8 rectangular, wide and with distinct concavity on posterior margin ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ); *epiproct as a pair of sclerites connected by a basal narrow bridge, and sclerites fuse into cerci apico-laterally by a narrow strip ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ). *Male subepandrial sclerite quadrangular, with baso-lateral corners extended basally and similar to ‘horns’ ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ); basiphallus teardrop-shaped, distiphallus membranous with dorsal sclerotized triangular region.
Included species (2): H. fascipennis ( Wiedemann, 1830) comb. nov. [3, 4], H. lemur ( Osten Sacken, 1877) comb. nov. [3, 4].
Etymology. The name is a reference to the Latin word ‘ hypocrites ’ which relates to ‘actor’ or ‘mime’, an allusion to the fact that this group resembles, ‘pretends to be’, Ocyptamus , but is not that genus. The name is to be treated as masculine.
Comments. This Nearctic genus, corresponding to the former Ocyptamus fascipennis species group, is characterized by distinctive wing markings ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ) and the medial swelling on the 2nd abdominal segment ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22. 12–15 ). Some codons in the cytochrome B gene are so far unique to this genus ( Miranda et al. 2016). Further information on this group can be found in Mengual et al. (2018).
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