Neomuscina schadei Snyder, 1949

Pereira-Colavite, Alessandre & De, Claudio J. B., 2012, Taxonomy of Neomuscina Townsend (Diptera, Muscidae) from Brazil, Zootaxa 3504, pp. 1-55 : 39-41

Neomuscina schadei Snyder, 1949

( Figs. 95–100 )

Neomuscina schadei Snyder 1949: 6 (key), 32 (description); Snyder 1954: 425 (key); Pont 1972: 51 (catalogue); de Carvalho et al. 1993: 59 (catalogue); Lopes & Khouri 1996: 959 (cited as near N. paramediana ); Couri & de Carvalho 2002: 154 (key); Costacurta et al. 2003: 394 (collected); de Carvalho et al. 2005: 96 (catalogue); Rodríguez-Fernández et al. 2006: 98 (listed); Schühli et al. 2011: 135 (listed).

Diagnosis: acrostichal 0:1; dorsocentral 2:4; male: intra-alars 2; mid femur with three preapical setae; wing hyaline.

Color: general body coloration brownish yellow; frons yellow, apex brown; facialia, parafacialia and gena yellow; antenna and palpus brown; scutum light brown with four light stripes of grey pruinosity; apexes of median and hind femora brown; calypters and halter yellow; wing hyaline ( Fig. 133 ).

Male. Length. Body: 5.5–6.0 mm; wing: 6.3–6.8 mm.

Head: eyes separated from each other by 0.1–0.13 mm, at level of ocellar tubercle; 14–15 pairs of frontal setae; ocellar seta large and convergent; postocellar seta large and divergent; inner vertical seta small and convergent; outer vertical seta small and divergent.

Thorax: acrostichal 0:1; dorsocentral 2:3; intra-alars 2; apex of fore tibia with setae on anterodorsal, dorsal, posterodorsal and posteroventral surfaces; mid femur with row of setae on posteroventral surface from base to middle, reappearing near apex; mid femur with three preapical setae, on dorsal, posterodorsal and posterior surfaces; apex of mid tibia with setae on anterior, posterodorsal, posteroventral, ventral and anteroventral surfaces; hind femur with complete row of dorsal, posteroventral and anteroventral setae; hind tibia with one median anterodorsal setaand one to three median anteroventral setae; hind tibia with anterior, anterodorsal, dorsal, ventral and anteroventral setae at apex; wing with one dorsal and one or two ventral setae at apex of stem vein.

Abdomen: epandrium, in profile not projected basally.

Female (differing as follows): Length. Body: 5.6–6.0 mm; wing: 6.0– 6.3 mm; eyes separated from each other by 0.3–0.33 mm, at level of ocellar tubercle; 11–12 pairs of frontal convergent setae, except for upper two pairs, divergent; ocellar and postocellar setae large and divergent; inner vertical seta large and convergent, and outer vertical seta large and divergent; sternite VIII with strong spike-like setae; epiproct with four setae, setae in a square-shaped arrangement (2:2).

Comments: Snyder (1949) mentioned that N. schadei looks like N. dorsipuncta (Stein) . As mentioned by the author, until the examination of both holotypes, N. schadei must be classified as a distinct species, given its geographical distribution ( N. schadei from southeastern South America and N. dorsipuncta from Mexico).

Holotype (not examined): AMNH. Type-locality: Villarica, Paraguay.

Type material examined: Paratypes: PARAGUAI. 1 male and 1 female “Villarica, Paraguay / VI 1937, F. Schade coll.” ( MNRJ) \ 1 male “3 / Para- / type | Villarica Para- / guay VI.1937 / F. Schade Coll | Brit. Mus. / 1950-249 | Paratype 3 / Neomuscina / schadei / Snyder” ( BMNH) \ 1 female “Ƥ / Para- / type | Villarica Para- / guay VI.1937 / F. Schade Coll | Brit. Mus. / 1950-249 | Paratype Ƥ / Neomuscina / schadei / Snyder” ( BMNH).

Other material examined: BRAZIL. Minas Gerais. 5 males “Paraopeba, Minas, BRASIL / H. Ebert, 10-IX-69 ” ( MNRJ) \ Paraná. 1 female “ BRASIL PR Antonina / Reserva Biol. Sapitundava / 05.X.1987 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 12.X.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 male and 1 female, same locality and collector, 19.X.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 26.X.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 02.XI.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 16.V.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 16.V.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 male and 1 female “Colombo - PR / EMBRAPA BR476 Km20 / BRASIL 03.XI.1986 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 3 males and 2 females, same locality and collector, 10.XI.1986 ( DZUP) \ 1 male and 1 female, same locality and collector, 17.XI.1986 ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 24.XI.1986 ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 19.I.1987 ( DZUP) \ 7 males and 1 female, same locality and collector, 09.II.1987 ( DZUP) \ 2 males, same locality and collector, 16.II.1987 ( DZUP) \ 2 males and 1 female, same locality and collector, 23.II.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 18.V.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 male “ BRASIL PR Fênix / Reserva Estad. Vilha Rica / 16.XI.1987 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 13.VI.1988 ( DZUP) / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 27.VI.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 04.VII.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 11.VII.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 18.VII.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 female “Guarapuava - Paraná / Est. Águas Sta. Clara / BRASIL 20.VI.1986 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 11.VIII.1986 ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 13.X.1986 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 10.XI.1986 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 23.II.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 23.III.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 27.V.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female “ BRASIL PR Jundiaí do Sul / Fazenda Monte Verde / 18.I.1988 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 1 male, same locality and collector, 23.V.1988 ( DZUP) \ 1 female “P. Grossa (V. Velha) PR / Reserva IAPAR BR376 / BRASIL 11.VIII.1986 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 06.X.1986 ( DZUP) \ 4 males and 1 female, same locality and collector, 26.I.1987 ( DZUP) \ 2 males, same locality and collector, 09.II.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 23.II.1987 ( DZUP) \ 3 females, same locality and collector, 02.III.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 06.IV.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 female, same locality and collector, 29.XII.1986 ( DZUP) \ 2 females, same locality and collector, 05.I.1987 ( DZUP) \ 5 females, same locality and collector, 12.I.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 male and 2 females, same locality and collector, 19.I.1987 ( DZUP) \ 1 male “S. José Pinhais – PR / Ser. Mar BR277 Km54 / BRASIL 01.XII.1986 / Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR / Malaise” ( DZUP) \ Rio de Janeiro. 4 males and 1 female “Petrópolis, Estado do Rio / La Vallon Alt. Mosèlla / Albuquerque, 1-II-8-III-57 ” ( MNRJ) \ Petrópolis, Estado do Rio, La Vallon Alt. Mosèlla, D’Albuquerque, 24–1–23–2 –58” ( MNRJ).

Geographical distribution: Brazil (Minas Gerais [new rec.], Paraná and Rio de Janeiro [new rec.]), Paraguay (type-locality).

Figures

FIGURES 95 – 100. Neomuscina schadei. Male terminalia: 95. Fifth sternite, dorsal view; 96. Epandrium, surstylus and cercal plate, lateral view; 97. Epandrium, surstylus and cercal plate, posterior view; 98. Aedeagus, lateral view. Female terminalia: 99. Dorsal view; 100. Ventral view. (Scale 0.5 mm)

FIGURES 133 – 136. Main wing color patterns. 133. Neomuscina schadei; 134. N. pictipennis pictipennis; 135. N. zosteris; 136. N. nigricosta. (Scale 1 mm)