Periscelis striata ( Hennig, 1969 ) Freitas & Ale-Rocha, 2023

Freitas, Geovânia & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Scutops Coquillett, 1904 (Diptera: Periscelididae), Zootaxa 5244 (5), pp. 401-427 : 424

Periscelis striata ( Hennig, 1969) comb. nov.

( Figs 20A–D )

Scutops striatus Hennig, 1969: 601 , 604 (Fig. 25); Prado, 1975: 2 (Neotropical catalog); Amorim & Vasconcelos, 1989: 42 (key); Mathis & Rung, 2011: 359 (world catalog).

Diagnosis. Frons yellow with pale sparse pruinescence and a brown spot above the middle, wide, occupying almost the entire width of the forehead and extending along the sides until close to the apex; dark brown ocellar triangle; yellow face with two small reniform spots above the middle, dense whitish pruinescence on the ventral margin of the face and more discrete lateral to the base of the antenna; gena, postgena and occiput yellow; scutum predominantly dark brown with one yellow stripe on dorsocentral line and one on notopleural region; pleura dark brown with one stripe on the ventral margin of the anepisternum; yellow scutellum with narrow brown basal spot; wing light brown with brown costal margin, basal part of the costal vein and Radius light yellow, M4 short, not reaching the wing margin; dm-m present, complete; CuA incomplete, cup cell absent.

Type material examined (pictures). Holotype female ( CNC). PERU, Madre de Dios, Avispas , 10–20.ix. 1962, 400 m (L. Pena).

Figures

FIGURE 20. Scutops striatus Hennig, 1969.A–D (holotype) (Periscelis striata [Hennig, 1969] comb. nov.). A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Head, lateral view; D, Thorax, dorsal view.