Souzalopesmyia paraensis de Carvalho, 1999

Gomes L. R. P. & de Carvalho C. J. B., 2018, Souzalopesmyia Albuquerque, 1951 (Diptera: Muscidae): new species from South America with an updated phylogeny based on morphological evidence, in Touroult J. (ed.), “ Our Planet Reviewed ” 2015 large-scale biotic survey in Mitaraka, French Guiana., Zoosystema 40 (25), pp. 539-546 : 543-544

Souzalopesmyia paraensis de Carvalho, 1999

Souzalopesmyia paraensis de Carvalho, 1999: 127.

MATERIAL ANALYZED. — Peru. Madre de Dios: 1 ♂, CICRA, trail 2.267 m, – 12.58104, –70.10645, Malaise trap, 12-25.I.2014, J. Caballero leg. (NMNH).

UPDATED KEY TO SOUZALOPESMYIA ALBUQUERQUE, 1951 SPECIES (MODIFIED FROM DE CARVALHO 1999)

1. Inner vertical setae divergent; crossvein dm-cu oblique, weakly curved. Female: 2 frontal setae [Brazil]........... ......................................................................................................................... S. carioca Albuquerque, 1951

— Inner vertical setae parallel; crossvein dm-cu oblique, almost straight. Female: 3 frontal setae ...................... 2

2. Dorsocentral setae 2 + 3. Male: postocular row of setulae incomplete, not reaching epistome, setulae black. Female: some acrostichals presuturals stronger than ground setulae [Brazil] .... S. amazonica Albuquerque, 1951

— Dorsocentral setae 1 + 3. Male: postocular row of setulae complete; setulae black and yellow, the latter beginning after basal half of eye. Female: acrostichals presuturals undifferentiated from the ground setulae ................. 3

3. Proepisternal seta weak, about ¾ length of the upper anepisternal seta. Male: cercal plate with margins of the posterior incision divergent ......................................................................................................................... 4

— Proepisternal setae strong, similar to the upper anepisternal seta. Male: cercal plate with posterior parallel incision margins ................................................................................................................................................ 5

4. Upper postpronotal setae shorter than half length of lower one (Fig. 1G). Male: sternite 5 concave on posterior margin (Fig. 2A) [French Guiana] ........................................................................................... S. polleti n. sp.

— Upper postpronotal setae longer than half length of lower one. Male: sternite 5 not concave on posterior margin [Brazil, Peru] ................................................................................................... S. paraensis de Carvalho, 1999

5. Posterior katepisternal seta strong, about two times the length of the anterior one. Male: frontal setae both cruciate [Bolivia, Peru] ........................................................................................... S. singularis (Stein, 1911)

— Posterior katepisternal seta very strong, about three times the length of the anterior one. Male: lower frontal setae cruciate, upper reclinate [Paraguay] ............................................................. S. sulina de Carvalho, 1999

DISTRIBUTION. — Brazil (Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará) (Löwenberg-Neto & de Carvalho 2013). New record to Peru (Madre de Dios).

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES

The analysis estimated a most parsimonious topology with 34 steps, consistency index 0.82, retention index 0.84 (Fig. 3). The results are entirely congruent with the relationships found by de Carvalho (1999).