Chonocephalus depressus Meijere, 1912

Disney, R. H. L., 2008, Review of Neotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1772 (1), pp. 1-54 : 13-15

Chonocephalus depressus Meijere

( Figs 33–38 )

Chonocephalus depressus Meijere, 1912: 151 (female only). Disney, 1991: 208 (male).

Chonocephalus similis Collin, 1912: 105 (part) nec Brues, 1905. Misidentification, Disney, 2002: 14 .

Chonocephalus ecitophilus Borgmeier & Schmitz, 1923: 145 . Disney, 2002: 14.

Chonocephalus japonicus Schmitz, 1941: 82 , fig. of male wing only. Disney, 2002: 15.

Chonocephalus dimakae Paulian, 1958: 12 . Disney, 2005: 406.

Chonocephalus pallidulus Beyer, 1964 in Hardy & Beyer, 1964: 298. Disney, 2002: 15.

Chonocephalus simiolus Beyer, 1964 in Hardy & Beyer, 1964: 300. Disney, 2002: 15.

This species has been transported around the world by man. It is also recorded from the Palaearctic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions.

Material. 2 males, Bolivia, La Paz, Caranavi 15 o 49’S, 67 o 33’W, compost pans, 13–15 April S. A. Mar- shall ( DEBU) . 1 male, Colombia, Rio Raposo , 1 July 1964, V . H. Lee ( USNM). 1 female, Hawaii , Lanikai Oahu, 30 December 1945, W. W. Wirth ( USNM) .

Natural history. The original type series was reared from a rotting caterpillar of Prodenia . The females caught on the edible paddy straw mushrooms Volvariella (Plutaceae) were probably ovipositing on over ripe sporophores. A female caught on turmeric ( Curcuma longa L., Zingiberaceae ) infested with larval Dichocrocis punctiferalis (Guenée) ( Lepidoptera , Pyralidae ) in India was possibly attracted to diseased or moribund caterpillars. It has been reared from bread fruit ( Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg , Moraceae ) It has also been reported from a colony of the army ant Eciton quadriglume in Brazil ( Borgmeier & Schmitz, 1923, Disney, 2002).

Figures

FIGURES 33–35. Chonocephalus depressus male, hypopygium: (33) from below, with right gonopod somewhat foreshortened, with detail of left gonopod to left and right anterior process of epandrium from another specimen and other angle; (34) right gonopod; (35) left face of hypopygium. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 36–37. Chonocephalus depressus female, details of abdomen: (36) sternite 8, furca (f) and spermatheca (s); (37) tergite 8. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURE 38. Chonocephalus depressus female, hairs and microtrichia of abdominal tergites.