Cephalosphaera aurata Souza & Ale-Rocha, 2009

Marques, Dayse W. A., Rafael, José A. & Pollet, Marc, 2019, First records of Pipunculidae (Diptera) from French Guiana, with the description of a new species, Zoosystema 41 (13), pp. 249-258 : 251

Cephalosphaera aurata Souza & Ale-Rocha, 2009

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Cephalosphaera aurata Souza & Ale-Rocha, 2009: 993 , fig. 4A- D. — Rodriguez & Rafael 2012: 16. — Marques & Rafael 2017).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guyane. 1 ♂, Mitaraka, MIT-E, partially opened areas on savane roche 2, 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W, 471 m a.s.l., 13-20.VIII.2015, MT (6 m), leg. P. Henri Dalens, sample code: MITARAKA/230, MNHN .

GEOGRAPHICAL RECORDS. — French Guiana (first record), Brazil: Amazonas.

REMARKS

This species was described and illustrated by Souza & Ale-Rocha (2009). It is close to Cephalosphaera procera Rafael & Menezes, 1999 described from Costa Rica. Figure 2 A-K included here should enable a better identification of this species which can be easily recognized by the combination of the following characters: antenna with pedicel light brown, postpedicel yellow with somewhat obtuse apex ( Fig. 2 A, B); legs predominantly yellow, with coxae, apex of mid and hind femora, and hind tarsus brown ( Fig. 2 A); wing hyaline, section between dm cell and vein M 2 longer than vein dm-m ( Fig. 2 C); tergites 1-4 slightly yellow laterally in the specimen preserved in alcohol (yellow in original species description) with dark brown basal spot, base of tergite 5 dark brown to black, opaque, and apical 1/3 gray pruinose ( Fig. 2 D); syntergosternite 8 not as long as tergite 5, with large membranous area, not reaching epandrium ( Fig. 2 E, F); surstylus symmetrical ( Fig. 2 E; see Fig. 2 G, H for lateral view); phallic guide short with group of stout spines at tip ( Fig. 2 I); phallus trifid, long and distally spiralized ( Fig. 2 J); ejaculatory apodeme as in Fig. 2K.