Peckia (Euboettcheria) gagnei (Lopes)

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2013, <strong> Revision of the New World genus <em> Peckia </ em> Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3622 (1), pp. 1-87 : 27-28

Peckia (Euboettcheria) gagnei (Lopes)

( Figs. 47, 48 ) (figs. 43–48 in Lopes 1975b)

Euboettcheria gagnei Lopes, 1975b: 478 . Dominica, Clarke Hall. Holotype male, in USNM (not examined).

Description. Male. Head. Ocellar setae stronger than postoculars. Outer vertical seta of same size as postoculars. Black orbital setae. Four frontal setae situated below the dorsal limit of the lunule. Genal setae black anteriorly, yellow or white posteriorly. First two rows of occipital setae black, others yellow. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals = 0 + 1, dorsocentrals = 0 + 3 (anterior one shorter), intra-alars = 1 + 2 (anterior one shorter), supraalars = 2 + 3, basal scutellars = 4. Prosternum and posterior surface of hind coxa with black setae. Three katepisternal setae. Postalar wall with only black setae. Lower calypter with a central dark spot and a fringe of long hair-like setae along outer margin, extending almost to its posterior margin. Mid femur with a ctenidium. Anterodorsal surface of mid tibia with 1 median and 1 apical seta. One row of setae on ventral surface of hind femur. Hind tibia antero-dorsally with 1 seta in the basal third, 1 in the middle third and 1 preapical. Abdomen. Postero-ventral seams between T3/T4 and T4/T5 parallel. T5 with grey microtrichosity. Microtrichosity of the abdomen laterally grey. ST1+3 with only black hair-like setae. Three lateral setae on each side of T4. Terminalia. ST5 orange. Medial margin of ST5 Λ- shaped. Inner margins of ST5 arms convex, with a patch of short setae on the median region, and long hair-like setae posteriorly. Syntergosternite 7+8 longer than high in lateral view, orange, with golden microtrichosity. Epandrium bright orange. Cercus orange proximally and brown or dark brown distally. Cercus in lateral view most narrow in the middle, with dorsal margin undulated, and an acute apex. Cercus with dorsal setae modified into robust spines on the apical half in lateral view. Surstylus brown, finger-shaped with anterior margin slightly projected towards the anterior body region, and an acute apex. Pregonite tongue-shaped, curved in lateral view, with a lateral projection, and an undulated apex. Postgonite elongated, with a hooked apex. Basi- and distiphallus connected by a desclerotized strip. Juxta without demarcated connection with the phallic tube. Juxta sclerotized and composed of one long plate without juxtal lateral plate and juxtal horns. Juxta sinuous in lateral view, with the lateral edges folded ventrally and the apex curved upwards. Distiphallus with a pair of lateral styli separated, each with a longitudinal cleft. Short vesica composed of one entire plate without demarcated connection with the distiphallus.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL— Dominica, Guadeloupe.

Material examined. Dominica: 1 male, Clarke Hall , 11.ii.1985, W.W. Wirth ( MNRJ) ; 1 male, same data but 31.iii.1965, D.R. Davis ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, S. Chiltern, 07.ii.1964, Dale F. Bray ( USNM) ; 2 males, St. Paul. Springfield Estate , 2.5 km ENE Canefield, 15°21'N 61°22'W, 450m, 11–18.vi.1991, J.E. Rawlins & S.A. Thompson ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, Springfield , 01.vi.1965, D.R. Davis ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, Parish of St. Peter , Anse Mulatre Ravine, 2 km S Dublane, 15°30'30''N 61°27'80''W, 50m, 15–19.iii.2003, M.E. Irvin, M.B. Shepard, E. Benson & G. Carner ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, Parish of St. John Calabrits Natl Park , 15°50'N 61°28'W, 100m, 19–20.iii.2003, M.E. Irvin, M.B. Shepard, E. Benson & G. Carner ( ZMUC) . Guadeloupe: 1 male, 06.viii.1957, J.W. Boyes ( MNRJ) .

Figures

FIGURES 41–53. 41–42. Peckia (Euboettcheria) anguilla. 41. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 42. Male terminalia, dorsal view. 43–44. Peckia (Euboettcheria) volucris. 43. Distiphallus, left lateral view. 44. Cercus, left lateral view. 45. Peckia (Euboettcheria) hernandosi n. sp. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 46. Peckia (Euboettcheria) subducta. Male terminalia, left lateral view, with an arrow pointing to the ventro-lateral rounded lobes of the phallic tube. 47–48. Peckia (Euboettcheria) gagnei. 47. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 48. Male terminalia, dorsal view. 49–50. Peckia (Euboettcheria) epimelia. 49. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 50. Cerci, dorsal view. 51–53. Peckia (Euboettcheria) collusor. 51. Male terminalia, left lateral view. 52. Cerci, dorsal view. 53. Distiphallus, left lateral view. (Abbreviations: Ce—cercus, J—juxta, Ls—lateral stylus, Pog—postgonite, Prg—pregonite, Sr—surstylus, V—vesica.)