Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879)

de Sousa, Viviane Rodrigues, Pereira, Andre Fontinelle Magalhaes & Couri, Marcia Souto, 2020, On Aethiopomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae) with the revision of the type specimens deposited in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin (Germany) with a key to species, ZooKeys 926, pp. 73-80 : 73

Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879) Figures 1-5 , 20

Lectotype.

♂; paralectotype ♂ (see Pont and Werner 2006: 23-24 for details)

Diagnosis.

Length of body. 11.0-12.0 mm (♂). Head. ♂ frons narrow, with the same width of frontal triangle. Frons and fronto-orbital plate dark brown. Parafacial, face and gena reddish yellow. Ocellar setae short. Gena very thin. Pedicel, postpedicel and arista yellow. Postpedicel ca. 4 × as long as wide. Arista long; plumose. Palpus brown, filiform. Thorax. Scutum reddish yellow-brown, with 1-3 incomplete brown white dusted vittae presuturally. Dorsocentrals 2+4. Katepisternals 1+2. Anepimeron setulose. Katatergite setulose. Lower calypter broad, ca. 3 × as long as the upper one. Haltere yellow. Calypters yellowish. Legs. Femora yellow; tibiae and tarsi brown. Fore tibia without median seta. Mid tibia with two posterior setae in middle third. ♂. Hind tibia with two anterodorsal and two or three anteroventral very fine setae. Pulvilli long and very enlarged (Fig. 4 ). Wing. Uniformly smoky yellowish. Costal spine not distinct. Abdomen. Robust, reddish brown; tergites III-V with a median brown vitta; tergite IV brown laterally and tergite V broadly brown. Rows of strong setae on margins of tergites IV and V and on disc of tergite V. Abdominal sternites with thin setae. Sternite 6 asymmetrical. Terminalia. Aedeagus as in Fig. 20 .

Note.

The species was keyed by Zumpt (1969). Cercal plate and surstylus as in Zumpt (1969: fig. 3). We present complementary drawings of the terminalia, that are in the same slide prepared by Zumpt (1969).

Figures

Figures 1 - 19. 1 - 5 Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879) lectotype ♂ of Aricia arguta Karsch: 1 lateral view 2 dorsal view 3 head frontal view 4 pulvilli 5 labels 6 - 10 Aethiopomyia gigas (Stein, 1906) syntype ♂: 6 lateral view 7 dorsal view 8 head frontal view 9 pulvilli 10 labels 11 - 14 Aethiopomyia patersoni Zumpt, 1969 Paratype ♀: 11 lateral view; 12 dorsal view 13 head frontal view 14 labels 15 - 19 Aethiopomyia williamsi (Snyder, 1951) ♀ of Lophomala anax Enderlein, 1927, nomen nudum: 15 lateral view 16 dorsal view 17 head frontal view 18 wing 19 labels. Scale bars: 5 mm (1 - 3, 5, 6 - 8, 10 - 19); 1 mm (4, 9).

Figures 20 - 30. Aethiopomyia arguta (Karsch, 1879) 20 aedeagus lateral view. Aethiopomyia gigas (Stein, 1906) 21 Sternite 5 22 cercal plate, lateral view 23 cercal plate, dorsal view 24 aedeagus dorsal view 25 aedeagus lateral view 26 ovipositor, dorsal view 27 ovipositor, ventral view 28 spermathecae 29 larva 30 detail of the anterior spiracle of larva. Scale bars: 0.2 mm 20 - 27, 29, 30; 0.1 mm 20, 28.