Fannia flavicincta (Stein)

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Fannia flavicincta (Stein)

Fannia flavicincta Stein, 1904: 453 (Homalomyia) . Male syntype deposited in the Museum fürNaturkunde der Humboldt–Universität (ZMHB), not found; syntype male in the MNM destroyed ( Pont & Werner 2006: 8–9). Typelocalities: Peru, Vilcanota and Colombia.

Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex. General coloration brown; frontal vitta and fronto-orbital plate velvety brown; 11 fr, setae on upper half reclinate; scape and pedicel yellow; arista black with basal third yellow; palpus black and falciform; thorax black, brownish pollinose and with two pre-sutural silver vittae; scutum on posterior half silver and with median postsutural brown vitta, starting on intra-alar setae and extended over pleural region; scutellum on basal half brown and silver and yellowish on apex; acr 2:2; 1 short pra, differentiated from ground setulae; wing yellowish with dorsal margin darker; haltere yellow; calypters white-yellowish with margins more pigmented; fore femur with 1 row of strong av on apical third; fore tibia with 1 apical, robust d; mid femur with 1 row of av on apical half, beginning with 5–6 strong setae and ending with short setae, 6–7 strong p at apex, 1 row of pv near one another; mid tibia with 2 median p; hind coxa on posterior margin with 3 setulae; hind femur with 2 strong av separated on apical half, 1 row of ad ending in 4 strong setae, 1 pre-apical d, 10 long preapical pv, not forming a tuft; hind tibia with 2 ad, 10 av on apical half, 1 strong sub-median d and 1 strong preapical; abdomen similar to the abdomen of F. c a n i c u l a r i s, with the first three tergites laterally translucent; bacilliform process cuneiform ( Stein 1911; Albuquerque 1954; Albuquerque et al. 1981; Wendt & de Carvalho 2009).

Biology. F. flavicincta is a mechanical vector of eggs of Dermatobia hominis ( Espindola & Couri 2004) . It is a synanthropic species collected in rural area and forest ( Almeida et al. 1985; Leandro & D’Almeida 2005), is associated with pig carrion ( Barbosa et al. 2009), and may have forensic relevance.

Comments. Fannia flavicincta belongs to the heydenii group ( Albuquerque et al. 1981).

Reference for Colombia: Stein (1904).

Distribution. Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil (de Carvalho et al. 2003).