Enderleiniella tripunctata (Becker, 1916)

Mlynarek, Julia J., 2019, Revision of the New World genus Enderleiniella Becker, 1912 (Diptera, Chloropidae), ZooKeys 884, pp. 107-134 : 107

Enderleiniella tripunctata (Becker, 1916) Figs 53-57

Anoscinella tripunctata Becker, 1916: 448 (type locality: Costa Rica: Higuito, San Mateo).

Enderleiniella tripunctata : Duda 1930: 77.

Description.

Total length 1.9-2.6 mm. Overall colour black. Head. Frontal triangle black, shiny, microtomentose, 0.6-0.7 times length of frons; ocellar tubercle black, shiny, microtomentose; frons brown to black, paler medially; cephalic setae dark, eight or nine fronto-orbital setae well-developed, interfrontal setulae on margin of frontal triangle and fronto-orbital setulae sparse, 5-7 orbital setulae small, posterior setae proclinate; gena yellow, microtomentose, 0.09-0.1 times eye height; face yellow; scape and pedicel yellow, first flagellomere yellow basally and ventrally, black dorsally and distally, first flagellomere quadrate, arista brown, thin at base, pubescence sparse and short; palpus yellow in male, brown in female, proboscis and clypeus brown. Scutum. Black, shiny, acrostichal and dorsocentral setae in three punctuate rows, scutum longer than wide; scutellum black, trapezoidal, 1.2-1.3 times wider than long, microtomentose; apical scutellar setae strong, on small tubercles on upper margin of scutellum, lateral scutellar setae much weaker than apical setae but longer and darker than surrounding setae. Legs. Yellow, mid and hind femora basally and tibia brown; femoral organ present as a small patch of four sensillae, tibial organ linear, dark, occupying middle quarter of hind tibia. Wing. Hyaline, brown tint dorsally from M1+2; veins brown; ratio of costal sectors C1: C2: C3: C4 - 1: 1.9: 1.4: 0.5; haltere yellow. Abdomen. Slightly paler than abdomen, sparsely microtomentose; syntergites 1+2 membranous under scutellum, marginally longer than other tergites. Male postabdomen ( Figs 55 , 56 ). Epandrium large, bulbous, higher than long in lateral view, wider than high in posterior view, with several setae; surstylus half the height of epandrium, clavate with a slight anterior curve along length, with broadly rounded apex, surstylus with three or four anterior setae near base and short setae elsewhere; cercus elongate, straight with a narrow ventral projection, extending postero-ventrally cercus with sparse setae, three or four setae longer than others; distiphallus weakly sclerotised, straight, blunt ended.

Molecular data.

Accession number MK919194

Type material.

Holotype ♂: COSTA RICA: [Provincia de San José, about 9°56'N, 84°32'W, 200m asl], Higuito: San Mateo, 1914, P. Schild (Budapest).

Other material examined.

BELIZE: BARC, near San Pedro Colombia (16°17'N, 88°58'W), Malaise trap and yellow pans, 10-12.iii.2002, J. Skevington (1♂, LEM); Stan Creek District: Silk Grass Creek (16°54'N, 88°26'W), 3.iv.1993, W.N. Mathis (1♂, USNM; USNMENT01476027); Toledo District: Blue Creek (16°12'N, 89°3'W), sweeping, 17.i.1982, A.T. Finnamore (1♀, LEM); COSTA RICA: Puntarenas: 24 km W Piedras Blancas (8°47'N, 83°15'W), 200m, Malaise trap, xi.1990, P. Hanson (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476028); Puntarenas: 3 km SW Rincon (9°55'N, 84°13'W), 10m, Malaise trap, x–xii.1990, P. Hanson (1♂, USNM; USNMENT01476029); Higuito: San Mateo, P. Schild (1♂, 2♀, USNM; USNMENT01476030-USNMENT01476032); Heredia: 3 km S Puerto Viejo OTS-La Selva, 100m, Malaise traps, xi.1992, P. Hanson (1♀, LEM); ECUADOR: Manabi, La Palma, viii.1955, Levi-Castillo (1♀, USNM); Manabi, Camarones, 9.ix.1955, Levi-Castillo (1♂, USNM; USNMENT01476033); Rio Mulaute, 15 km NE Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 2.iii.1973, M. & N. Deyrup (1♂, 3♀, USNM; USNMENT01476034-USNMENT01476036, USNMENT01476041); Domingo de los Colorados, 5.iii.1973, M. & N. Deyrup (1♂, USNM, USNMENT01476066); Napo: Napo-Pastaza, Levi-Castillo (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476037); Balao Guayas, xii.1955, Levi-Castillo (3♀, USNM; USNMENT01476038-USNMENT01476040); Guayas: Naranjal, xii.1955, Levi-Castillo (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476042); Guare: Los Rios,viii.1955. Levi-Castillo (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476043); Guayas: Taura, xii.1955, Levi-Castillo (3♀, USNM; USNMENT01476044-USNMENT01476046); Pichincha Manabi, viii.1955, Levi-Castillo (3♀, USNM; USNMENT01476047-USNMENT01476049); EL SALVADOR: San Salvador, x.1965,N.L.H. Krauss (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476050); GUATEMALA: Departamento Izabal: Las Escobas, 15.vii.1986, L. LeSage (1♂, CNC); MEXICO: Chiapas: 7 km N Cacahoatan, 22.iv.1983, W.N. Mathis (1♂, 1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476051-USNMENT01476052); Chiapas: Rio Izapa, 21.iv.1983, W.N. Mathis (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476055); Chiapas: Puenta Macalapa, light trap, 22.v.1964, F.S. Blanton (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476056); Vera Cruz: Cordoba, vii.1965, N.L.H. Krauss (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476057); PANAMA: Gamboa: Pipeline Road, Malaise traps, vii.1967, W.W. Wirth (1♂, 1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476058-USNMENT01476059); Gamboa: Rio Agua Salud, vii.1967, W.W. Wirth (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476060); Summit, ix.1946, N.H.L. Krauss (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476061); Tabogal, 26.ii.1912, A. Busck (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476062); PERU: Canet, 17.v.1941, P.A. Berry (2♀, USNM; USNMENT01476063-USNMENT01476064); VENEZUELA: Zulia: El Tucuco, 45 km SW Machiques, 5-6.vi.1976, A.S. Menke & D. Vincent (1♀, USNM; USNMENT01476065).

Figures

Figures 53 - 57. Enderleiniella tripunctata. 53 Lateral habitus 54 dorsal habitus 55 male genitalia (lateral) 56 male genitalia (posterior) 57 geographic distribution.