Amazunculus platypodus (Hardy)

Marques, Dayse W. A., Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Rafael, José A., 2019, Revision of the genus Amazunculus Rafael (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 4577 (3), pp. 439-472 : 465-467

Amazunculus platypodus (Hardy)

Figs 153–167

Dorylas (Eudorylas) platypodus Hardy, 1950: 442 , figs. 6 a–d.

Eudorylas platypodus ; Aczél, 1952: 245.

Pipunculus (Eudorylas) platypodus ; Hardy, 1966: 5.

Amazunculus platypodus ; Rafael, 1986: 16, figs 1–5; De Meyer, 1996: 44; Galinkin & Rafael, 2008: 521, figs 12–13; Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012: 15; Marques & Rafael, 2018.

Redescription. Mesopleuron ( Fig. 153) dark brown to black, mostly brown pruinose, except anepisternum grey pruinose anterodorsally; katatergite and anatergite grey pruinose. mediotergite brown pruinose. Legs ( Figs 153– 154) dark brown to black, except apices of trochanters, extreme apices of femora and bases of tibiae yellow; femora with grey pruinescence on the posterior face. Wing ( Fig. 154–155). Length 7.8 mm. LW/MWW = 3.5. LTC/LFC = 1.6. Membrane mostly hyaline except by basal third darkened. Abdomen ( Figs 153–154). Dark brown to black with brown pruinescence, except tergite 1 and tergites 3–5 with interrupted bands of grey pruinescence posteriorly. Tergite 6 and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 157. Terminalia. Syntergosternite 8 with a large membranous area ( Fig. 158). Epandrium yellowish brown, very inflated. Surstyli ( Fig. 159) yellowish brown, symmetric and fused with epandrium, with rounded apex, elongated ventrally ( Figs 160–161). Phallic guide ( Figs 163–165) long and curved, base distinctly expanded dorsally with apex elongated in lateral view ( Fig. 165), about 1.6× hypandrium length. Basal processes of phallus large and pointed, surpassing posterior margin of hypandrium ( Fig. 163). Phallus ( Figs 165–166) with large pointed projections apically. Ejaculatory apodeme as in Fig. 167.

Female. Unknown.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂: “[ BRASIL], Amazon. [? Amazonas], 66–53 [without year and collector] [3°21'46.33"S, 65°50'37.80"W]” “ Holotype ♂ Dorilas platypodus D. E. Hardy ” “ Holotype ” “ Dorilas (Eudorylas) platypodus Hardy, Det. 1950 , D.E. Hardy ” “ NHMUK 010863721 ” ( NHMUK) ( Fig. 156). Additional material: “ BRASIL, Pará, C.[onceição do] Araguaia , [8°10'35.32"S, 49°26'47.49"W], 19–31.i.1983 ” “ J. A. Rafael, armadilha de Malaise” “Comparado com tipo Eudorylas platypodus (Hardy) , J. A. Rafael—1985” “ J. Skevington Specimen #7959” (1 ♂, INPA).

Holotype condition. Antennae lost. Right eye slightly damaged. Right wing mounted in a microslide with balsam. Terminalia placed in a microvial with glycerin, both pinned upon the pin with the specimen.

Geographical distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Pará ( Fig. 183).

Habitat. This species is found in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, collected with Malaise trap at ground level.