Corynoneura vidiapodeme, Wiedenbrug & Lamas & Trivinho-Strixino, 2012

Wiedenbrug, Sofia, Lamas, Carlos E. & Trivinho-Strixino, Susana, 2012, 3574, Zootaxa 3574, pp. 1-61 : 53-55

Corynoneura vidiapodeme sp. n.

( Fig. 34)

Type material. Holotype male, BRAZIL, SP, Salesópolis , Estação Biológica de Boracéia 23°39.229´, 45°53.367´W, 8–1.xi.2010, Malaise trap, B. Brown et al . Paratype: one male, same data as holotype .

Diagnostic characters. The male of C. vidiapodeme is differentiated from other species with phallapodeme attachment placed in the caudal apex of sternapodeme and apex of hind tibia with a s-shaped seta by the antenna plumose with 7 flagellomeres and inferior volsella narrow and large. Corynoneura vidiapodeme is similar to C. renata and can be distinguish from this species due to the narrower aedeagal lobe and by the by shape of the phallapodeme.

Etymology. From Latin “ vidi ” meaning “appear, be seen” referring the easily recognisable phallapodeme.

Description

Male (n = 2)

Wing length 0.52–0.57 mm.

Color. Thorax brownish. Abdominal tergites I–V whitish, rest brownish. Legs whitish.

Head. AR = 0.62. Antenna with 7 flagellomeres, apical flagellomere 105 µm ( Fig. 34 A). Flagellomeres with more than one row of setae each. Eyes pubescent.

Thorax. Antepronotal lobes dorsally tapering.

Wing. Clavus/wing length 0.24–0.25. Anal lobe absent ( Fig. 34 B).

Legs. Hind tibial scale 30 µm long, with one s-seta.

Hypopygium ( Figs 34 C– D). Tergite IX with 4 setae. Laterosternite IX with 1 seta. Superior volsella low with short setae. Inferior volsella large and narrow. Aedeagal lobe with narrow base well sclerotized. Sternapodeme rounded, anteriorly straight, phallapodeme caudal attached. Phallapodeme oar-shaped.

Metric and meristic features in Table 1.

Remarks. Corynoneura vidiapodeme sp. n. was collected with a Malaise trap in the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo State, Brazil.