Neorypellia Pont, 1972

Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, Zootaxa 1976, pp. 1-24 : 18

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185153

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658515

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scientific name

Neorypellia Pont, 1972
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Neorypellia Pont, 1972 View in CoL

Neorypellia Pont, 1972: 10 View in CoL . Type species: Neopyrellia neglecta Townsend, 1939 .

Diagnosis. Colouration shining metallic dark-green; wing with maculae on apex of Sc and R1, and on apex of R2+3. Female with proclinate fronto-orbital seta; parafrons setulose on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Presutural acrostichals undeveloped; one postsutural pair. Dorsocentrals 0+2. Posthumeral and parahumeral present; postsutural intra-alars 2; intrapostalar present. Prosternum bare. Katepisternals 1+2. Meron bare. Posterior spiracle bare on posterior margin. Suprasquamal ridge bare. Wing with the basal portion of stemvein setulose ventrally; apical portion of stem-vein setulose dorsally; R1 and R4+5 bare; Rs node setulose dorsally and ventrally; M bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter glossiform. Subcostal sclerite bare. Calcar weak.

Comments. A small-bodied bluish metallic muscine with glossiform lower calypter and weak calcar, with a single species ( N. neglecta ) recorded from Brazil and Paraguay.

Distribution (1 species). Neotropical.

References. Albuquerque (1955), de Carvalho and Couri (2002).

Albuquerque, D. O. (1955) Fauna do Distrito Federal. VI. Sobre alguns Phaoninae pouco conhecidos (Dipt. Muscidae). Boletim do Museum Nacional (Nova Serie, Zoologia), 130, 1 - 11.

de Carvalho, C. J. B. & Couri, M. S. (2002) Part I. Basal groups. In: de Carvalho, C. J. B. (Ed.), Muscidae (Diptera) of the Neotropical Region: taxonomy. Editora Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, pp. 17 - 132.

Pont, A. C. (1972) 97. Family Muscidae. In: A catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas south of the United States. Museu de Zoologia (Universidade de Sao Paulo), Sao Paulo, 111 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Tribe

Muscini