Coenosia morio ( Emden, 1940: 220 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2016, Species of Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) described by Fritz van Emden from the British Museum Ruwenzori Expedition of 1934 – 1935, Zootaxa 4144 (4), pp. 529-555 : 550

Coenosia morio ( Emden, 1940: 220)

( Figs 95–97 )

Holotype male seen; left wing damaged.

Diagnosis. General colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum uniformly brown; postpedicel very long and slender, about 4 times the length of the pedicel and with a pointed apex; palpus brown; legs brown, fore coxa grey pollinose; wing infuscated; arista with short hairs; scutellum with both pairs of setae long, and with setulae on disc; anterior katepisternal about half as long as the posterior one; lower calypter about 1.8 times the length of the upper one; haltere brown; fore tibia with a very long posteroventral seta; hind tibia with one anterior and one anterodorsal, both very long and inserted at the same level; abdomen of male curved downwards; sternite 5 as in Fig. 95 .

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 96 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 97 .

Notes. The species keys out as an isolated species in the group key and can be very easily recognized by the long postpedicel with its pointed apex. One paratype male was dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 89 – 100. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in lateral view: 89 – 91. Coenosia hyalinipennis (Emden). 92 – 94. Coenosia megalocalyptra (Emden). 95 – 97. Coenosia morio (Emden). 98 – 100. Coenosia multisetosa (Emden).