Coenosia tomentigera Emden, 1940 : 152

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 : 553

Coenosia tomentigera Emden, 1940: 152

( Figs 116–118 )

Holotype male seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. General colour brown, with grey pollinosity; palpus brown; legs brown with grey pollinosity; antennal insertion a little projecting; postpedicel about 2.2 times the length of the pedicel; arista almost bare; scutellum with both pairs of setae present and long, and with setulae on disc; all katepisternals long and similar in size; lower calypter short and only slightly projecting beyond the upper one; haltere yellow; all legs in male with numerous fine and long setae; fore tibia of female with one median seta, in male this seta is present but is very fine and long like the other setae on all legs; male mid femur on apical half of anterior surface with a differentiated area covered with a dense, short, brown microscope pile; hind tibia with one median anterodorsal and one short median anteroventral; male abdomen with numerous long, fine, curved hairs like those on the legs; sternite 5 as in Fig. 116 .

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 117 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 118 .

Notes. Originally described in Coenosia . Males can be easily identified by the fine hairs on legs and abdomen and by the differentiated area on mid femur. One male paratype was dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 113 – 124. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in lateral view: 113 – 115. Coenosia tertriguttata (Emden). 116 – 118. Coenosia tomentigera Emden, 1940. 119 – 121. Coenosia translucida (Emden). 122 – 124. Coenosia transversalis (Emden).