Colobaea acuticerca Carles-Tolrá, 2008

Bratt, Albertus D., Knutson, Lloyd V., Murphy, William L. & Daniels, Anthony A., 2020, Biology, immature stages, and systematics of snail-killing flies of the genus Colobaea (Diptera: Sciomyzidae), with overviews of aspects of the tribe Sciomyzini, Zootaxa 4840 (1), pp. 1-64 : 18

Colobaea acuticerca Carles-Tolrá, 2008

Map 1

This recently described ( Carles-Tolrá 2008) species is known only from the male holotype (preserved in ethanol in the Carles-Tolrá collection in Barcelona, Spain) swept from Umbelliferae on 24 June 1995 at Salamanca, northwestern Spain. According to the original description, the species keys out to couplet 10 in Rozkošný & Elberg (1991) and is easily distinguishable by “Pleurae brown, only propleura and anterior part of anepisternum (between forecoxa and anterior spiracle) yellowish.” The anterior surstyli are similar to those of C. pectoralis . The cerci are fused basally, elongate apically, and acute.

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MAP 1. Geographic range of Colobaea acuticerca Carles-Tolrá.