Coenosia ruwenzorica ( Emden, 1940: 173 )

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 : 551-552

Coenosia ruwenzorica ( Emden, 1940: 173)

( Figs 107–109 )

Holotype male seen; mid legs and right hind leg missing.

Diagnosis. General colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum with five brown vittae; legs yellow, femora brown on apical half or third of dorsal surface; arista short-haired; palpus brown; scutellum with four strong setae; anterior katepisternal fine and about half of the length of the lower one; abdomen without markings, brown, a little shining; lower calypter 2.8 times the length of the upper one, distinctly projecting beyond it; hind tibia with one anterior, one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal setae, the posterodorsal inserted basad of the others; sternite 5 as in Fig. 107 .

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 108 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 109 .

Notes. This species belongs to the vittata group. One paratype male was dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 101 – 112. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in lateral view: 101 – 103. Coenosia niveifrons Stein. 104 – 106. Coenosia ruwenzorica Speiser. (syn: Coenosia kilembana syn. nov.). 107 – 109. Coenosia morio (Emden). 110 – 112. Coenosia somereni (Emden).