Fannia penicillaris (Stein)

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Fannia penicillaris (Stein)

Fannia penicillaris Stein, 1900:205 (Homalomyia) . Syntypes male and female deposited in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt–Universität (ZMHB) or destroyed [formerly in Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM)]( Pont & Werner 2006: 12). Type-locality: Bolivia, Songo

Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex.10–19 fr; scape dark brown; pedicel dark brown with apex light-brown; arista dark brown with base light brown; palpus dark brown and clavate; scutum dark brown on anterior half and light-brown on posterior half; 1 pra differentiated from ground setulae; wing with upper margin brown; haltere yellow; calypters whitish with margins brownish or not; legs brown; hind coxa with 3 setulae on posterior margin; hind femur on posteroventral surface with strong pre-apical protuberance and tuft of long setae with hooked apices; hind tibia with 4–5 av; abdomen elongate with syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 laterally translucent-yellow, with median vitta dark brown; sternite 1 setulose; bacilliform process cuneiform ( Albuquerque et al. 1981, Wendt & de Carvalho 2009).

Biology. Fannia penicillaris is a synanthropic species, a mechanical vector of Dermatobia hominis eggs ( Guimarães & Papavero 1999), and collected with liver, sardines ( Almeida et al. 1985; de Carvalho et al. 2002), light trap, and traps with banana and meat baits (Wendt & de Carvalho 2009). It is associated with carrion (Leandro & D’Almeida 2005).

Comments. these characters apply only to the male sex. According to Wendt and de Carvalho (2009), F. penicillaris and F. tumidifemur (Stein) are similar. They can be differentiated by the coloration of scutum, dark brown up to the second postsutural dc. Phylogenetically, F. penicillaris is close to F. b e l l a Albuquerque and both species belong to the monophyletic group heydenii ( Albuquerque et al. 1981; Domínguez & Roig-Juñent 2008).

Reference for Colombia: Stein (1904).

Distribution. Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (de Carvalho et al. 2003).