Coniceromyia maculipennis Borgmeier

Ament, Danilo César & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2016, Taxonomic revision of Coniceromyia Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of three new species from Brazil, Zootaxa 4086 (1), pp. 1-87 : 42-45

Coniceromyia maculipennis Borgmeier

( Figs. 97–100 , 173 , 225, 292)

Coniceromyia maculipennis Borgmeier, 1969b: 57 , figs. 23–24, 28.

Diagnosis (male). Macula at the middle of the wing, extending from wing anterior region to base of CuA1, reaching all veins.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL: São Paulo: Bocaina , x.1968, Scabra & Alvarenga col. ( MZSP).

Redescription. Male. Body length, 2.0 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, sparsely setulose, with well-defined median furrow. Flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, pubescent, elongate-conical. Arista apical, pubescent, about the same length of the flagellomere 1. Palpus light yellow; two genal setae. Thorax. Scutum and pleural regions yellowish-brown, with darker areas on the proepimeron and dorsally on the anepisternum, scutellum brown; lateral regions to the scutellum dark brown; anepisternum bare. Legs yellowish-brown, hind femur with apical darkening. Foretibia basal half elevated dorsally with two dorsal strong setae and a sharp spine; one strong anterodorsal and one strong posterodorsal seta. Foretibia apical half with excavation bearing many tiny blunt setulae and anterodorsal row of eight orange strong setulae. Foremetatarsus excavated anteriorly, with setulose anteroapical process, without differentiated setae ( Fig. 173 ). Hind femur not swollen (height/length ratio, 0.33), with posteroventral group of tiny blunt setulae narrow, adjacent to ventral margin ( Figs. 292 ). Wing (Fig. 225). Costa slightly swollen, 0.45 of the wing length; M1 concave, curved posteriorly at the apex; M2 almost straight, anteroposterior distance between M2 and CuA1 at CuA1 apex about 1.3 times the distance between M1 and M2 at the same level; CuA1 sinuous. Halter white. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, with lighter posterior band. Hypopygium yellowish-brown ( Figs. 97–100 ). Epandrium covered with microtrichia mostly dorsally, large proximal lateral areas bare; dorsal and left sutures of the epandrium present. Left epandrial process dorsally setose, with a ventral lobe, dorsal lobe directed medially, subepandrial process with three pointed projections ( Figs. 98 and 100 , black arrow), subepandrial setulose transversal elevation ( Figs. 98 and 100 , white arrow) and approximately ten subepandrial large setae. Right epandrial projection with subepandrial group of setulae. Hypandrium without lateral projections.

Geographical distribution. Known only from the type-locality in the State of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil. Comments. See comments under C. anacleti and C. epicantha .

Figures

FIGURES 97 – 100. Coniceromyia maculipennis hypopygium, 97. Dorsal, 98. Ventral, 99. Left lateral, 100. Right lateral. Black arrow, subepandrial process with three pointed projections; white arrow, subepandrial setose transversal elevation.

FIGURES 158 – 173. Coniceromyia male forelegs. 158. C. costaricana; 159. C. cristifemur; 160. C. cubensis; 161. C. diaphaniptera; 162. C. disparivena; 163. C. epicantha; 164. C. femoralis; 165. C. franciscana; 166. C. globosa; 167. C. hoggi (modified from Kung 2009); 168. C. impluvia; 169. C. impudica; 170. C. latimana; 171. C. leucomacula; 172. C. lobipennis; 173. C. maculipennis.

FIGURES 289 – 293. Coniceromyia male hind femur. 289 – 290. C. leucomacula; 291. C. lobipennis; 292. C. maculipennis; 293. C. mexicana.