Eccritosia barbata (Fabricius, 1787)

Montanuci, Pietra S., Vieira, Rodrigo & Krolow, Tiago K., 2023, A new species of Cerozodus and new records of Asilinae and Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) from Tocantins, Brazil, Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2023008) 113, pp. 1-22 : 15

Eccritosia barbata (Fabricius, 1787)

( Figs 52 – 55 )

Material examined. BRASIL [ BRAZIL], Tocantins: Wanderlândia , 06°50’55.680”S – 48°7’8.400”W, malaise [malaise trap], 10-13.XI.2012, Krolow, T . K. & Oliveira, L. A. (♂, ♀ CEUFT) .

Distribution. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Tocantins *, Paraíba, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro), Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina ( LAMAS, 1973).

Comments. Eccritosia barbata has a wide distribution in most of South America, extending from Venezuela to Argentina, with records in most Brazilian states ( LAMAS, 1973). In this species the females are larger in length than the males, the females are approximately 24 mm and the males 22 mm. It is characterized by having a white or yellowish mystax ( Figs 54, 55 ), black thorax ( Fig. 53 ), black forelegs and median, black hind femur, yellow tibiae and hind tarsi with white setae, abdomen with black tergite 1 with a white stripe ventrally and white macrosetae laterally, tergite 2 brown with white lateral setae, remaining tergites light brown, terminalia reddish ( Fig. 52 ).

Figures

Figs 52–55. Eccritosia barbata (Fabricius, 1787), male, habitus: 52, lateral view; 53, dorsal view; head: 54, frontal view; 55, lateral view.