Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge

Carvalho-Filho, Fernando Da Silva, Esposito, Maria Cristina & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2021, Revision of Nephochaetopteryx Townsend, 1934 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 4928 (1), pp. 1-83 : 40-42

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scientific name	Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge
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Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge View in CoL

( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 )

Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge, 1968a: 281 View in CoL (key), 285 (description of male). Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Japuhyba [= Japuíba]. Other references: Pape (1996: 261; catalog).

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♁ ( MNRJ): JAPUHYBA / ANGRA 23–3 – 940 / J. LANE E LOPES [print- ed and handwritten on rectangular white label bordered with black] // Holotype [printed on rectangular red label] // HOLOTYPE / Nephochaetopteryx / Dodge lopesi [printed and handwritten on rectangular white label bordered with red] // MNRJ / 2201 View Materials [printed and handwritten on rectangular white label]. [Holotype lacking head, fore legs and left mid leg, with terminalia extended.]

Additional material examined. Brazil. Paraíba: Jo „o Pessoa, Mata do Buraquinho , 01.IX.2009, on pig carcass, leg. R . Farias (1 ♁, MPEG) .

Redescription. Male. Length = 4.5 mm (n = 2).

Head. Fronto-orbital and parafacial plates, postocular strip, gena and postgena with golden microtomentum. Frontal vitta reddish-black with basal half reddish-brown. Six frontal setae. Palpus brown.

Thorax. Chaetotaxy: dorsocentrals 2+4 (first two weak); intra-alars 2+2; supra-alars 1+3; anepisternals 5; merals 5. Mid femur with two median setae and without a differentiated posteroventral seta. Ctenidium consisting of four spines. Wing hyaline, with faint brown spot beginning in the terminal portion of vein R 1, filling the distal third of cell r 1 and the upper half of the distal half of cell r 2+3; vein R 4+5 setulose dorsally to crossvein r-m.

Abdomen. Tergites brown with a band of golden microtomentum on anterior 4/5 of dorsal and lateral surfaces. Sternites 1 to 4 yellow, covered with yellowish setulae and with marginal setae.

Terminalia. Sternite 5 brown, with a very shallow cleft, not surpassing the base of lobe; lobe rounded and with a tuft of short setulae; arm glossiform, curved posteriorly ( Fig. 17E View FIGURE 17 ). Sternite 5 with small setulae restricted to posterior half ( Fig. 17E View FIGURE 17 ). Cercus elongate and narrow in lateral view ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). Cercal prongs with pointed tips strongly convergent ( Fig. 17B View FIGURE 17 ). Inner lateral margin of cercus without setulae and cercal base with long setae ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). Surstylus conical, with a small patch of setulae basally on posterior margin ( Fig. 17A View FIGURE 17 ). Pregonite widened, with tip curved anteriorly, anterior margin with some pointed projections, posterior margin with small setae ( Fig. 17C View FIGURE 17 ). Postgonite conical, with rounded tip slightly curved anteriorly and with a long seta on anterior margin ( Fig. 17D View FIGURE 17 ). Basiphallus longer than wide, curved dorsally ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ). Distiphallus club-shaped, with dorsal margin sinuous and apical margin rounded ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ). Ventral margin sinuous with a thin finger-like projection ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ). Vesica strongly angled, with bifid tip ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ). Inner process of vesica longer than wide ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ). Lateral and median styli short, about one-fourth of width of widest portion of the lateral wall of distiphallus, positioned medially in distiphallus ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ). Median stylus with a projection basally ( Fig. 17F View FIGURE 17 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL—Brazil (Paraíba, Rio de Janeiro).

Remarks. This species differs from the others in the genus in having vesica with a bifid tip and anterior margin of pregonite with many pointed projections.