Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896

Krolow, Tiago Kütter, Henriques, Augusto Loureiro, Gorayeb, Inocêncio De Sousa, Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco & Buestán, Jaime, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896 (Diptera: Tabanidae: Scionini), Zootaxa 3904 (3), pp. 301-333 : 303

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6100321

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scientific name

Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896
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Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896 View in CoL View at ENA

Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896: 3 View in CoL . Type species, Pityocera festai Giglio-Tos, 1896 (mon.); Kröber, 1930: 310 –312 (revision Pityocerini); 1934: 235 (catalog); Fairchild, 1964: 170 (subgenera); 1969: 204 (classification); 1971: 28 (catalog); Moucha, 1976: 41 (catalog); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 51 (catalog); Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 46 (catalog); Henriques et al., 2012: 278 (corrections and additions to catalog); Lessard et al., 2013: 517 (molecular Scionini View in CoL ); Lessard, 2014: 231 (revision Scionini View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. size varying from small to medium; eyes pilose; frons narrow parallel-sided; antenna with the first flagellomere modified, with dorsal and ventral projections in a bipectinate shape, or with dorsal projections in a pectinate shape, or partially fused with the flagellomeres 2 and 3; first flagellomere with well developed tuft of hairs dorsally; face bulbous and generally shiny, pruinose in some species; clypeus shiny but rarely partially pruinose; proboscis very elongated, over two times greater than the head length; labella and theca little sclerotized, moderately shiny; wings fumose, only one species with a contrasting color pattern; conspicuous wing venation with r5 cell closed far from the wing margin and with a very elongated petiole. Terminalia ♀: tergite IX fused; tergite X divided into two pieces; cercus with apex rounded or subtriangular; hypoproct with apex rounded, not reaching half of the cercus length; hypogynium subtriangular with lateral margins straight or rounded; acute apex with an elongated slit reaching the hypogynial valve; genital fork with slender arms without distal expansions or with poorly sclerotized distal expansions; anterior margin generally concave with acute lateral extremities. Terminalia ♂: epandrium fused with lateral margins rounded, hollowed at base and apex (dorsal view); cercus subrectangular; hypoproct elongated, exceeding the cercus apex; hypandrium + gonocoxite robust with the anterior margin rounded or almost straight; pronounced hollow on gonocoxite (dorsal view), reaching half of its length; gonostylus elongated, digitiform with acute apex; aedeagus narrow without anterior expansion, in size subequal to the gonocoxal apodemes.

Distribution. Central and northern South America (until the central region of Brazil).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tabanidae

Loc

Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896

Krolow, Tiago Kütter, Henriques, Augusto Loureiro, Gorayeb, Inocêncio De Sousa, Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco & Buestán, Jaime 2015
2015
Loc

Pityocera

Lessard 2014: 231
Lessard 2013: 517
Henriques 2012: 278
Coscaron 2009: 46
Fairchild 1994: 51
Moucha 1976: 41
Fairchild 1964: 170
Krober 1930: 310
Giglio-Tos 1896: 3
1896
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