Neopleurophora colobopyga, Ament & Amorim, 2013

Ament, Danilo Cesar & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the genus Neopleurophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of thirty seven new species, Zootaxa 3657 (1), pp. 1-93 : 45

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D3E95FDE-9836-474B-89E5-3575C82DD307
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5267048
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287F2-FFF0-FFA1-FF42-25ECCA1DD2D5
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Neopleurophora colobopyga
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Neopleurophora colobopyga View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 104–107 View FIGURES 104–107 , 182 View FIGURES 160–195 , 220 View FIGURES 196–233 , 300–301 View FIGURES 300–303 )

Diagnosis (males). Epandrial medial process large, bifurcated into a two-pointed left sclerotized process and a rounded right process; hypandrium left lobe with truncated posterior margin.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Las Alturas : Echandi Tr., 8.97ºN, 82.83ºW, 15.viii.1995, Trigona fulviventris nest entrance, B. Brown col. ( LACM). GoogleMaps

Description. Male. Body length, 2.9 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, pubescent, without median furrow. Flagellomere 1 light brown, ventrally with gray pubescence, oval. Arista pre-apical, pubescent. Palpus light brown; two upper genal and one lower genal setae. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, pleural sclerites brown; anepisternum setulose dorsally, with one long seta; scutellum dark brown, posteriorly brown. Legs light brown. Forefemur with ventral row of four strong setae near apex. Foretibia with one dorsal seta at basal third and an anterodorsal row of strong setae. Foremetatarsus ratio, 3.7. Midtibia with one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal setae at basal fourth ( Fig. 182 View FIGURES 160–195 ). Hind femur swollen (height/length ratio, 0.40), without strong ventral setae. Hind tibia with two anterodorsal and 4–5 posterodorsal setae ( Fig. 220 View FIGURES 196–233 ). Wing. Costa 0.46 of the wing length, other wing features as for the genus. Halter dark brown with apical, orange maculation. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, with lighter posterior band. Hypopygium light brown ( Figs. 104–107 View FIGURES 104–107 ). Epandrial medial process large, bifurcated into a twopointed sclerotized left branch and a rounded right branch with short anterior pointed projection. Epandrial right posterior margin with subepandrial setulose process. Hypandrium left lobe large, pointed, with truncated posterior margin; right lobe narrow. Hypoproct with two setae. Phallus ( Figs. 300–301 View FIGURES 300–303 ). Basiphallus with large dorsal process. Core plate flattened, large, bilobed, with pointed left lobe. Epiphallus with large, sclerotized scales, connected to the right arm at the left of the phallus. Ventral plate well developed, apically bifurcated into a secondary scaled process bearing large, sclerotized scales and a medial lobe bearing an adjacent scaled process.

Female. Unknown.

Geographic distribution. Known only from the type-locality in a low altitude site in west Costa Rica.

Etymology. The specific epithet colobopyga refers to the truncated posterior margin of the hypandrial left lobe, and is derived from the Greek roots kolobos (incomplete, truncated) and pyge (rump, buttocks).

Comments. Neopleurophora colobopyga is probably related to N. lamasi , sharing with this species a truncate, left hypandrial lobe, an apically pointed phallic core plate, and epandrial medial process right lobe apically with an anterior projection.