Campylocera scalaris ( Hendel, 1934 ), 2016

Korneyev, V. A., 2016, New Taxa And Synonymy In The Family Pyrgotidae (Diptera Tephritoidea) Ii Subtribe Adapsiliina And Afrotropical Campylocera, Vestnik Zoologii 50 (3), pp. 195-218 : 204

Campylocera scalaris ( Hendel, 1934) comb. n. ( fig. 5–7 )

Prohypotyphla scalaris Hendel, 1934: 149 ; Vanschuytbroeck, 1963: 41; Steyskal, 1980: 560.

M a t e r i a l. Type. Syntypes 2 ♀: Kenya: “Kenya colony / Kabete / 26–27. x. 25 / G. B. Purvis / in house”, “Prohypotyph- / la / scalaris H. / F. Hendel. det.”, “ Coll. Hendel. ” (NHMW; DEI) .

Non-type. Nigeria: Zaria , Samaru, m. w. trap, 1.06.1966, 1 ♀, 21.05, 22, 24, 26.06.1967, 8 ♀, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26.06.1968, 13 ♀, 10, 31.05, 26.06.1972, 3 ♀ (J. Deeming) ( USNM) ; Samaru , mercury vapor lamp, 15–22.06, 13– 20.07.1970, 2 ♀ (P. H. Ward) ( BMNH) . Kenya: Nairobi , 10.1934, 1 ♀ (F. W. Edwards), 4.02.1959, 1 ♀ (no collector); Karura, 06.1936, 1 ♀ (van Someren) ( BMNH) .

D i a g n o s i s. C. scalaris is a species superficially similar to C. ferruginea in its almost uniformly yellowishbody often with reddish-yellow lyrate pattern on scutum and whitish scutellum, hyaline wings, medium-size (wing length 6.5–8.1 mm), and only one pair of ocellar and one pair of postocellar setae present, with pedicel moderately elongate, shorter than flagellomere 1 (the latter parallel-sided, twice as long as wide and apically blunt), lacking outer vertical setae, mid coxae with 2 setae laterally and short setulae medioventrally, short setulose hind coxae, femora not thickened, with long basal and subbasal ventral setae, fore femur without long dorsal setae, mid and hind femora with short and thin apicoventral setae, scutellum short setulose with 4 scutellar setae, wide abdomen, differing from other Campylocera by the wide conical oviscape without setose swellings but with a ventral incision (lateral view). It is closely related to C. unicolor Becker and C. hyalipennis (see discussion above), differing from the second by the blunt flagellomere 1, slightly darker mesonotum and somewhat wider aculeus ( fig. 8 , 3 ), but the ranges of variability of these characters need additional studies to see if they are separate species.

R e m a r k. See discussion on synonymization of Campylocera , Congopyrgota Aczél, 1958 , syn. n., and Prohypotyphla Hendel, 1934 syn. n.

Figures

Fig. 5. Congopyrgota hyalipennis holotype ♀ (MRAC): 1, 7 — head, left (arrow indicates pointed angle of the flagellomere 1); 2 — head, anterior view; 3 — oviscape, dorsal view; 4 — habitus, left; 5 — wing; 6 — palp; 8 — head, dorsal view; 9 — mesonotum, dorsal view; 10 — abdomen and oviscape, right view; 11 — labels (1–3 — redrawn from Aczél (1958), with changes, 4–11 — original photos).

Fig.6. Campylocera kiwuensis holotype Ơ (MRAC):1 — habitus, lateral view;2 — wing; 3 — head,right; 4 — head, dorsal view; 5 — palp; 6 — fore leg, posterior view; 7 — hind leg, anterior view; 8 — epandrium, ventral view.

Fig. 7. Campylocera hyalipennis, non-type ♀ (Uganda, USNM): 1 — abdomen, ventral view; 2— abdominal sternites 1–6; 3 — oviscape, left view; 4 — spermatheca (1 of 3); 5 — aculeus.

Fig. 8. Campylocera scalaris holotype ♀ (NHMW): 1 — habitus, lateral view; 2 —wing; 3 — head, left (arrow indicates enlarged setae); 4 —head, dorsal view; 5 — mesonotum, dorsal view; 6 — fore leg, posterior view; 7 — mid leg, anterior; 8 — hind leg, anterior view; 9 — oviscape, dorsal and left view; 10 — labels.

Fig. 3. Campylocera ferruginea, non-type Ơ (1–6) and ♀ (7–11) (Nigeria, USNM): 1–2 — genitalia, right and ventral view; 3 — outer and inner surstyli, ventral view; 4–6 — phallus glans at different angles; 7 — oviscape apex; 8 — aculeus; 9 — vagina and ventral receptacle; 10 — medioventral lobe; 11 — spermathecae (2 of 3).