Tethysimyia Species B

Ebejer, Martin J., 2023, A first account of Chyromyidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) from continental Central and South America and some Caribbean Islands, with descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 5319 (3), pp. 301-331 : 326

Tethysimyia Species B ,

Fig. 20B

BONAIRE: 3♀♀, Washington Slagbaai , Playa Chikitu, 12–19.xii.2022, 12.2791°N, 68.3485°W, leg. O. Vorst & V. J. Kalkman, Malaise trap, BON 2022-2023.8, Museum Leiden ( RMNH), preserved in alcohol .

These three specimens are also identical to each other; they are probably a third species. Although similar to species A, they differ from it and from T. bonairensis in the following characters: eye as in species A, more vertical-oblique compared to horizontal-oblique as in T. bonairensis ; paraverticals present and convergent, arista dark to base; yellow thorax with dark declivity on anterior margin above neck and dark mediotergite; narrow bands on tergites 2–5 and lateral spots on tergite 6. The chaetotaxy of head and thorax is the same as in species A.

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FIGURE 20. Tethysimyia spp. female specimens from Bonaire, A. species A. B. species B. C. species C.