Puliciphora interrupta Borgmeier

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 : 10

Puliciphora interrupta Borgmeier

( Figs 18 and 27)

Puliciphora interrupta Borgmeier, 1960: 323 .

The type locality is Brazil, Curitiba. In the Museum Koenig (Bonn) I found some females of this species in alcohol. Two have been mounted on slides. One of these had a small mite attached to its abdomen.

FIGURES 20­22. Puliciphora females: (20) P. p a r v u l a; (21) P. b i c o l o r; (22) P. cubensis . (After Borgmeier, 1960, 1969b).

FIGURES 23­28. Puliciphora females: (23) P. sobria ; (24) P. s e t o s a; (25) P. r u f i p e s; (26) P. frivola ; (27) P. interrupta ; (28) P. borinquenensis . (After Borgmeier, 1960).

Figures

FIGURES 15 ­ 19. Puliciphora females, abdominal tergites 4 ­ 6: (15) P. laranjae; (16) P. longitergum; (17) P. pygmaea; (18) P. interrupta (19) P. parsetosa. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.