Neopleurophora dicrodrilus, Ament & Amorim, 2013

Ament, Danilo Cesar & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the genus Neopleurophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of thirty seven new species, Zootaxa 3657 (1), pp. 1-93 : 60-62

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D3E95FDE-9836-474B-89E5-3575C82DD307
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287F2-FFE7-FFB0-FF42-2375CE70D594
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Neopleurophora dicrodrilus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Neopleurophora dicrodrilus View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 144–147 View FIGURES 144–147 , 192 View FIGURES 160–195 , 230 View FIGURES 196–233 , 320–321 View FIGURES 320–323 )

Diagnosis (males). Hypandrium left lobe with apical, curved thin projection; phallus with ventral, sclerotized, bifurcated projection.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, COLOMBIA: Risaralda: SFF Otún Quimbaya: El Molinillo , 4.72ºN, 75.57ºW, 21.iii–4.iv.2003, Malaise trap, 2,220 m, G. López col. ( IAVH) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 6♂, same data as holotype, but deposited at LACM GoogleMaps .

Description. Male. Body length, 3–3.8 mm. Head. Frons black, pubescent, without median furrow. Flagellomere 1 reddish-brown, darker at apex, pubescent, oval. Arista pre-apical, pubescent. Palpus yellowishbrown; 1–2 lower genal and two upper genal setae. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, except yellow anterolateral areas, pleural sclerites yellowish-brown, anepisternum posterior margin brown, setulose dorsally, with one long seta; scutellum dark brown, with grayish medial and posterior areas. Legs yellowish-brown, hind femur brown at apex. Forefemur with ventral row of four strong setae near apex. Foretibia with one dorsal seta at basal third and an anterodorsal row of strong setae. Foremetatarsus ratio, 4.7. Midtibia with one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal setae at basal fourth ( Fig. 192 View FIGURES 160–195 ). Hind femur not swollen (height/length ratio, 0.35), without ventral strong setae. Hind tibia with 2–3 anterodorsal and 4–5 posterodorsal setae ( Fig. 230 View FIGURES 196–233 ). Wing. Costa 0.5 of the wing length, other wing features as for the genus. Halter yellowish-brown. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, with lighter posterior band. Hypopygium light brown ( Figs. 144–147 View FIGURES 144–147 ). Epandrial medial process bifurcated into a pointed left branch and an approximately rectangular right branch. Epandrial right posterior margin with rounded ventral and dorsal projections, with subepandrial setulose process. Hypandrium left lobe large, with an apical curved, thin projection, right lobe medium-sized, rectangular. Hypoproct with two setae. Phallus ( Figs. 320–321 View FIGURES 320–323 ). Basiphallus without dorsal process. Core plate flattened, bilobed. Epiphallus with transparent scales, connected to right arm at left lateral of the phallus. Ventral plate well developed, apically bifurcated into a secondary scaled process, not connected to the epiphallus, and a ventral bifurcated, sclerotized projection.

Female. Unknown.

Geographic distribution. Known only from the type-locality, a high altitude site in Amazonian Colombia. Etymology. The specific epithet dicrodrilus refers to the phallic ventral bifurcated projection, and it is derived from the Greek roots dikros (forked) and drilos (penis) and should be treated as a noun in apposition.