Chaetotheresia Townsend, 1931

de Santis, Marcelo Domingos & de V. P. Dios, Rodrigo, 2023, Monotypic no more: revision and an additional species for the genus Chaetotheresia Townsend, 1931 (Diptera: Tachinidae), Journal of Natural History 57 (5 - 8), pp. 285-298 : 287-289

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2023.2174910
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7727250
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scientific name	Chaetotheresia Townsend, 1931
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Genus Chaetotheresia Townsend, 1931 View in CoL

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Chaetotheresia Townsend, 1931a: 346 View in CoL .

Type species: Musca crassa Wiedemann, 1830 , by original designation.

References

Townsend 1936: 146 (diagnosis of adults and immatures of Theresiini, including Chaetotheresia ); Townsend 1938: 394 (redescription of Chaetotheresia ); Guimarães 1971: 36 (catalogue); Evenhuis et al. 2015: 74 (catalogue of Townsend̍s genera); O̍ Hara and Henderson 2020a: 19 (World checklist of tachinid genera); O̍ Hara and Henderson 2020a: 36 (checklist of World Tachinidae ).

Included species

Chaetotheresia crassa ( Wiedemann, 1830: 387) (Musca) . Male syntypes: Brazil (NHMW, examined).

Chaetotheresia brasiliana Brauer and Bergenstamm, 1891: 364 , 60 ( Myiomima ). Female holotype: Brazil (NHMW, not examined)

Chaetotheresia insolita ( Walker, 1853: 318) (Dexia) . Male syntypes: Brazil (NHMUK, examined). comb. nov.

Diagnosis

Postpedicel 2× the length of the scape and pedicel combined; facial carina present and well developed (dividing the antennae); proboscis about equal to head height; lower facial margin protruding (visible in profile); thorax with 4 to 5 katepisternal setae; abdomen broad, with syntergite 1 + 2 with 1–3 short median marginal setae, 4–5 pairs of median marginal setae and 1 pair of discal setae on tergite 3, tergites 4 and 5 with a row of median marginal setae (without discals), tergite 5 with a golden-greyish pruinosity.

Distribution

(São Paulo, Santa Catarina and Paraná states).

Key to species of Chaetotheresia Townsend, 1931 .

1 - Thorax with goldish pruinosity dorsally; abdomen blackish, syntergite 1 + 2 with 3 pairs of short median marginal setae ................. ................. C. crassa ( Wiedemann, 1830) View in CoL

- Thorax with whitish pruinosity dorsally; abdomen light brown, syntergite 1 + 2 with 1 pair short of median marginal setae ...................... ...................... C. insolita ( Walker, 1853)