Robustagramma lingulatum Cui and Marshall, 2005

Marshall, Stephen A. & Cui, Yongsheng, 2005, Systematics of Robustagramma, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera), Zootaxa 1026 (1), pp. 1-122 : 22-23

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1026.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EDC6787-C73B-4969-BA06-022D0532364F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5052546

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0392570D-FFB2-426D-FEDA-AC3387FDFE05

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Robustagramma lingulatum Cui and Marshall
status

sp. nov.

Robustagramma lingulatum Cui and Marshall View in CoL , new species

( Figs. 13–17 View FIGURES 13–17 , 364 View FIGURES 363–370 )

As described for Robustagramma uniseta except as follows.

Male: Body length 1.6–2.0 mm. General color dark brown to black. Frons indistinctly flattened and shiny. Face and lower frons brown to dark brown. Two orbital bristles, anterior bristle 2/3 as long as posterior. Postvertical bristles similar to or slightly shorter than inner occipital bristles. Eye height ca.1.8–2.0 times genal height. Preapical palpal bristles slightly shorter than twice maximum width of palpus. Anterior portion of wing lightly infuscated. Costa ending near wing apex, extending past R 4+5 by 1–2 vein widths. Discal cell with or without a short stump vein M. Mid femur with 5–8 posteroventral bristles on basal half.

Sternite 5 with a row of 8 or 9 conspicuously stout bristles on border line between dark and pale portions, and two linguiform posterolateral flanges; some special scales on flanges. Surstylus relatively narrow in lateral view.

Holotype (♂, DEBU): VENEZUELA: Aragua. Henry Pitter N.P., Rancho Grande , 9.iv.1994, L. Masner.

Paratype: VENEZUELA: Merida. 6 km S Azulita , near road, 3.v.1988, S. A. Marshall (1 ♂, DEBU) .

Etymology: The name lingulatum refers to the shape of flanges of sternite 5.

DEBU

Ontario Insect Collection, University of Guelph

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sphaeroceridae

Genus

Robustagramma

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