Coenosia edwardsi ( Emden, 1940: 171 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2016, Species of Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) described by Fritz van Emden from the British Museum Ruwenzori Expedition of 1934 – 1935, Zootaxa 4144 (4), pp. 529-555 : 535-536

Coenosia edwardsi ( Emden, 1940: 171)

( Figs 74–76 )

Holotype male seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. Body length 4.5–5.9 mm; general colour brown with grey pollinosity; scutum with 3 brown vittae, the median one not reaching scutellum; palpus brown; coxae grey pollinose, fore leg blackish-brown, except knee and base of tibia; mid and hind femora yellow translucent, blackish-brown on apical third, knees and base of mid and hind tibia yellow, tarsi blackish-brown; arista with short hairs; proboscis strong and teeth well-developed; scutellum with both pairs of setae, the basal one delicate, shorter and finer than the apical one, with setulae on disc; anterior katepisternal very fine, contrasting with the long lower and posterior ones; upper calypter short, lower one about 2.5 times as long as upper one; haltere yellow; mid and hind coxae with setulae on hind margin; hind tibia with one anterior, one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal inserted at the same level, the posterodorsal shorter; sternite 5 as in Fig. 74 .

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 75 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 76 . Notes. Included in the vittata group. A male paratype was dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 65 – 76. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in lateral view: 65 – 67. Coenosia chaetomeros (Emden). 68 – 70. Coenosia ciliventris (Emden). 71 – 73. Coenosia cubitalis (Emden). 74 – 76. Coenosia edwardsi (Emden).