Prochyliza azteca McAlpine, 1977

Martín-Vega, Daniel, 2014, On the identity of Prochyliza nigrimana (Meigen) and Prochyliza nigricornis (Meigen) (Diptera: Piophilidae), with a synopsis of Prochyliza Walker and description of a new species, Zootaxa 3893 (2), pp. 277-292 : 283-284

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.7

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6142691

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scientific name

Prochyliza azteca McAlpine, 1977
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Prochyliza azteca McAlpine, 1977 View in CoL

Prochyliza azteca McAlpine 1977: 45 View in CoL . Type locality: México ( San Cristóbal de las Casas). Holotype (♀) and paratype (1 ♀) in CNC.

Material examined. 1 ♀ ( CNC, paratype): México, San Cristóbal de las Casas; 12.vi.1969; leg. B. V. Peterson; det. J. F. McAlpine. 1 ♀ ( CNC): Panamá, Chiriqui, Cerro Punta; 19.v.1977; det. J. F. McAlpine.

Diagnosis. The following combination of characters is distinctive of P. azteca : lower quarter or less of the frons orange ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 C); gena black; front coxa, mid and hind femora and mid and hind tibiae entirely yellow; margins and fringes of calypters white.

Remarks. According to McAlpine (1977), the two strictly Neotropical species of the genus, P. azteca and P. inca , were derived from the Holarctic fauna. McAlpine (1977) also suggested that P. i nc a would be the most closely related to P. azteca . However, the morphology of the male of P. az t e ca remains undescribed, so it is not possible to know if this species shares with P. inca the extremely distinctive two horn-like spines on the epandrium ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D).

Biology. The larvae are necrophagous. Jirón & Cartín (1981) collected both adults and larvae on a dead dog during the dry season in a secondary forest of San José, Costa Rica, highlighting that P. a z t ec a was one of the most abundant insect species during most part of the decomposition process. The experiment of Jirón & Cartín (1981) was carried out in the campus of the University of Costa Rica, meaning that P. azteca may have developed synanthropic tendencies.

Distribution. Neotropical; described from southeastern México ( McAlpine 1977), it has been also recorded from Costa Rica ( Jirón & Cartín 1981) and Panamá ( Ozerov & Norrbom 2010).

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Piophilidae

Genus

Prochyliza

Loc

Prochyliza azteca McAlpine, 1977

Martín-Vega, Daniel 2014
2014
Loc

Prochyliza azteca

McAlpine 1977: 45
1977
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