Rhinotora pluricellata Schiner

Calhau, Julia, Coelho, Lívia Aguiar, Kawada, Ricardo, Lima, Felipe Varussa De Oliveira & Guillermo-Ferreira, Rhainer, 2016, Review of Rhinotora (Diptera, Heleomyzidae) with description of a new species and key to all known heleomyzid species from Brazil, Zootaxa 4138 (3), pp. 513-533 : 522-524

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Rhinotora pluricellata Schiner View in CoL

( Figs 4A View FIGURE 4. A – C –F, 10)

Rhinotora pluricellata Schiner, 1868: 233 View in CoL . Syntypes 2♂, 2♀, NWM. Type-locality: " Brazil ". Distr.— Brazil (Guanabara, São Paulo). Refs—Fischer 1932: 425, figs 8–9, 20 (antenna, scutellum, wing); Lopes, 1935: 20, figs 1, 4–7 (egg, male genitalia, ovipositor); Papavero 1967: 2 (catalogue); Almeida & Ale-Rocha 2011: 54 (male genitalia).

Diagnosis. This species resembles R. lopesi , R. salesopolitana , R. paschoali sp. nov. and R. spiloptera by the single supernumerary crossvein arising from the middle of R2+3. On the other hand, it resembles R. dirversipennis and R. salesopolitana by the scutum without dark pruinose spots, having a uniform golden pruinose cover. Rhinotora pluricellata differs from all remaining Rhinotora by the male genitalia with bottle-shaped cerci and phallus with microtrichose apex.

Redescription. Head ( Figs 4A–B View FIGURE 4. A – C , D–F). Yellow to brown, silvery to golden pruinose. Anterior reclinate orbital seta about as long as one fourth of posterior seta. Mouthparts brown, clypeus and palpus yellowish. Thorax ( Figs 4 A–B View FIGURE 4. A – C , D–E). Scutum yellowish to reddish brown, golden setulose, golden pruinose. Scutellum triangular with apical and lateral spiniform protuberances; base of apical seta protuberant; yellowish brown, golden pruinose, apex and lateral spines shiny. Wing ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4. A – C ,D). Medial vein ratio: 0.49. Veins mostly dark brown with white and yellow areas; C mostly yellow, dark brown on distal two thirds of cell c. Membrane hyaline with dark spots. Cell r1 with five to six simple supernumerary crossveins. Cell r2+3 with a simple or branched supernumerary crossvein arising from the middle of R2+3. Legs ( Figs 4A View FIGURE 4. A – C , D). Fore femur on male about three times longer than wide. Distal third of mid femur with short strong anteroventral setae. Distal third of hind femur with anteroventral row of strong setae. Mid tibia with one distinct ventroapical seta. Abdomen. Tergites brown, sternites yellowish brown; brown setulose. Protandrium ( Almeida & Ale-Rocha 2011). Sternite 5 medially membranous; laterally fused with sternite 6. Male genitalia ( Almeida & Ale-Rocha 2011). Cerci fused to each other, abruptly narrowing from base to apex (bottle-shaped). Surstylus single lobed, foot-shaped in lateral view. Phallus short, slender, with microtrichose apex.

Distribution ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ). Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo).

Examined type material. SYNTYPES. “Novara R.; Brasilia / pulricellata; Alte Sammlung / Type ” (photographs of 1Ƌ, 1♀, NMW).

Examined non-type material. BRAZIL. São Paulo: Itaporanga, N. B. Antonina, i.1946, Barretto col. (1Ƌ, MZUSP).