Puliciphora mexicanae, Disney, R. Henry L., 2003

Disney, R. Henry L., 2003, Seven new species of New World Puliciphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) with a new key to the Neotropical species, Zootaxa 162, pp. 1-22 : 13

Puliciphora mexicanae sp. nov.

(Fig. 12)

Female

Frons brown, with 4 SAs­0­0­6 bristles. Eyes large, their length from above almost twice breadth of postpedicel. The latter brown with only two SPS vesicles, which are a little larger than sockets of upper SAs. Palps brown, but paler than postpedicels, with five bristles and twice as many longish hairs. Pale brown labrum at least 1.3x as broad as postpedicel. Thorax as brown as frons; without humeral or alar bristles and the wing rudiment being an ill defined patch with a small hair and two pale spots; with six bristles at rear margin that are almost equally spaced but the outermost pair are about 1.6x as long as the other four bristles. Abdominal tergites brown, but T1 almost black and tiny flap of T5 is straw yellow. T4­T6 as Fig. 12. Venter brownish yellow with numerous hairs above and below. Legs with brown femora and tibiae and straw yellow tarsi.