Hendelia saopaulo ( Caloren & Marshall , 1998 )

Lonsdale, Owen & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011, Revision of the New World Hendelia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae), Zootaxa 2748, pp. 1-17 : 16

Hendelia saopaulo ( Caloren & Marshall, 1998)

( Figs 55–58 )

Clusiodes saopaulo Caloren & Marshall 1998: 303 . Hendelia saopaulo . Lonsdale & Marshall 2007: 147.

Diagnosis. As described for H. heliconiae except as follows: body length 3.6 – 3.8mm; bristles brown with vibrissa light brown to yellow; posterior fronto-orbital smaller than anterior bristle or absent; frons always entirely yellow with ocellar tubercle brown; base colour of thorax light yellow with venter of pleuron often white and subnotal stripe thinner, and postpronotum light yellow to white, often strongly contrasting with scutum; female darker with base colour of scutum orange, anterior margin of first flagellomere lightly infuscated, and pigment on fore leg more strongly contrasting; anterodistal margin of epandrium broadly rounded, not strongly produced; surstylus broader and rounder; base of pregonite smooth; spermatheca globose and tuberculate. Non-type male paler (see comments).

Distribution. Southeast Brazil (Rio de Janiero).

Non-type material examined. BRAZIL. Rio de Janiero: Teresópolis, Serra dos Orgáos Natl. Pk., trail to Pedra do Sino, 1300 – 1700m, sweep, 25.i.1990 (1Ψ, DEBU).

Comments. Caloren & Marshall (1998) state that Hendelia saopaulo has three fronto-orbital bristles, but this character appears to be variable as the posterior bristles are reduced in the holotype, two paratypes and the non-type male, and absent in three paratypes. The non-type male differs from the type specimens in that it is entirely pale yellow except for the wing spots, and has a faint notal stripe, a dark ocellar tubercle, and an orange tint on the frons and anepimeron. The male genitalia (which are useful in separating this species from congeners), however, are concordant with those of the dissected types, and the collection locality falls within the known range of this species.

Figures

FIGURES 33 – 58: Genitalic figures of Hendelia mirabilis (Frey) and those species described by Caloren & Marshall (1998). Figs 33 – 36: H. kinetrolicros (Caloren & Marshall); 33: male external components, left lateral; 34: surstylus, posterior surface; 35: hypandrial complex, left lateral; 36: female internal genitalia. Figs 37 – 40: H. mirabilis; 37: male external components, left lateral; 38: surstylus, posterior surface; 39: hypandrial complex, left lateral; 40: female internal genitalia. Figs 41 – 44: H. napo (Caloren & Marshall); 41: male external components, left lateral; 42: surstylus, posterior surface; 43: hypandrial complex, left lateral; 44: female internal genitalia. Figs 45 – 48: H. phrenzinus (Caloren & Marshall); 45: male external components, left lateral; 46: surstylus, posterior surface; 47: hypandrial complex, left lateral; 48: female internal genitalia. Figs 49 – 51: H. pterygion (Caloren & Marshall); 49: male external components, left lateral; 50: surstylus, posterior surface; 51: hypandrial complex, left lateral. Figs 52 – 54: H. stimulator (Caloren & Marshall); 52: male external components, left lateral; 53: surstylus, posterior surface; 54: hypandrial complex, left lateral. Figs 55 – 58: H. saopaulo (Caloren & Marshall); 55: male external components, left lateral; 56: surstylus, posterior surface; 57: hypandrial complex, left lateral; 58: female internal genitalia.