Peckia (Squamatodes) virgo (Pape)

Buenaventura, Eliana & Pape, Thomas, 2013, <strong> Revision of the New World genus <em> Peckia </ em> Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) </ strong>, Zootaxa 3622 (1), pp. 1-87 : 81-82

Peckia (Squamatodes) virgo (Pape) , new subgeneric affiliation

( Fig. 116 ) (figs. 395–398 in Pape 1994)

Blaesoxipha (Gigantotheca) virgo Pape, 1994: 40 . British Virgin Islands, Necker I. Holotype male, in USNM (not examined).

Description. Male. Head. Ocellar setae stronger than postoculars. Outer vertical seta of same size as postoculars. Black orbital setae. Two frontal setae situated below the dorsal limit of the lunule. Genal setae black anteriorly, yellow or white posteriorly. Occipital setae white or yellow. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals = 0 + 1, dorsocentrals = 0 + 3 (anterior one shorter), intra-alars = 1 + 2 (anterior one shorter), supra-alars = 2 + 3, basal scutellars = 4. Prosternum and posterior surface of hind coxa with black setae. Black antero-ventral scutellar setae. Three katepisternal setae. Postalar wall with only black setae. Lower calypter with a central dark spot and a fringe of long hair-like setae along outer margin, extending to its posterior margin. Mid femur with a ctenidium. Hind femur with a row of antero-ventral and a row of postero-ventral setae. Abdomen. Postero-ventral margins of T3 and to a lesser extent T4 curved posteriorly, so that segment 3 and to a lesser extent segment 4 are of near-equal length dorsally and ventrally. Posterior seam of T5 projected posteriorly and ventrally. Microtrichosity of the abdomen laterally grey and golden. ST1+3 with only black hair-like setae. T5 with grey microtrichosity. Posterior seam of T5 not projected posteriorly and ventrally, and normal setae in postero-ventral area directed posteriorly. Terminalia. ST5 orange. Medial margin of ST5 ∏-shaped. ST5 arms with acute apophyses anteriorly. Inner margins of ST5 arms straight. Syntergosternite 7+8 longer than high in lateral view, orange, with golden microtrichosity and a crown of setae. Epandrium bright orange. Cercus orange proximally and brown or dark brown distally. Cercus in lateral view progressively narrowing towards the apex, straight with a few setae dorsally. Surstylus orange, triangular, with an acute apex. Pregonite elongated with a rounded apex. Postgonite elongated, with a hooked apex. Basi- and distiphallus connected by a desclerotized strip. Phallic tube short and straight. Juxta with a demarcated connection with the phallic tube. Juxta without juxtal lateral plate. Juxta entire with a rounded protuberance. Lateral styli fused and forming only one broad tube. Vesica absent.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL—British Virgin Is., Dominican Republic.

Material examined. British Virgin Is: 1 male, Necker Island , 21.vii.1987 ( ZMUC) ; 1 male, Guana Island , 01–14.vii.1984, S.E. & P.M. Miller ( ZMUC) . Dominican Republic: 1 male, Peravia, 9km S San José de Ocoa, 19.vii.1987, A.L. Norrbom ( ZMUC) .

Unplaced species-group names

The following names represent nominal species-group taxa that cannot be reliably placed in synonymy but are not expected to represent additional species.

Sarcophaga auribarbata Townsend, 1912: 357 . Peru, Piura. Holotype female, in USNM (not examined). Considered by Aldrich (1930: 27) as synonymous with his Sarcophaga cotyledonea (= Peckia (Pattonella) intermutans ), but treated as a valid species of Paraphrissopoda (= Peckia sensu stricto) by Lopes (1969: 36).

Sarcophaga incerta Walker, 1853: 324 . Jamaica. According to the curator of BMNH, the holotype female is missing. Aldrich (1930) examined this holotype and mentioned that this species “runs to the vicinity of hillifera Aldrich ”, but he still considered himself unable to identify it further. Later, Dodge (1965b) received notes about this holotype from Oldroyd and commented about its poor condition.

Figures

FIGURES 112–116. 112–113. Peckia (Squamatodes) ingens. 112. Cerci and surstyli, left lateral view. 113. Distiphallus, left lateral view. 114–115. Peckia (Squamatodes) trivittata. 114. Male terminalia with an arrow pointing to the dorsal crest of the juxta, left lateral view. 115. Distiphallus with an arrow pointing to the dorsal crest of the juxta, apical view. 116. Peckia (Squamatodes) virgo. Male terminalia, left lateral view. (Abbreviations: Ce—cercus, J—juxta, Ls—lateral stylus, Prg—pregonite, Sr—surstylus.)