Cryptopygiella musaphila Robinson, 1975

Runyon, Justin B., 2020, The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Montserrat, West Indies, ZooKeys 966, pp. 57-151 : 57

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.966.55192

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cryptopygiella musaphila Robinson
status

 

Cryptopygiella musaphila Robinson Fig. 6 View Figure 6

Cryptopygiella musaphila Robinson, 1975: 41.

Material examined.

Dominica: Holotype ♂, La Ronde River, 15 February 1964, H. Robinson (USNM). Montserrat: 1 ♀, Bottomless Ghaut, 5 August 2005, yellow pan trap, V.G. Martinson; 1 ♀, Big River, 450 m, 16°45.690'N, 62°11.174'W, 28 June 2017, J.B. Runyon; 1 ♂, small ghaut, on Heliconia , 16°45.844'N, 62°11.402'W, 28 June 2017, J.B. Runyon (MTEC, USNM).

Distribution.

Dominica, Montserrat.

Remarks.

This is the first report of the monotypic genus Cryptopygiella outside of Dominica. Specimens seem to be restricted to the deepest ghauts on Montserrat. The male antenna and genitalia were illustrated by Bickel (2009). The male postabdomen is unique in being completely enclosed within an opening at apex of the preabdomen (Fig. 6B View Figure 6 ). Adults collected in 2017 were found on large Heliconia leaves, a similar habitat to where they were found on Dominica "running over the surface of banana leaves" ( Robinson 1975).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Dolichopodidae

Genus

Cryptopygiella

Loc

Cryptopygiella musaphila Robinson

Runyon, Justin B. 2020
2020
Loc

Cryptopygiella musaphila

Robinson 1975
1975