Poecilantrops marensis, KITS & MARSHALL, 2013

KITS, JOEL H. & MARSHALL, STEPHEN A., 2013, <p class = " HeadingRunIn " align = " left "> <strong> Generic classification of the Archiborborinae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), with a revision of <em> Antrops </ em> Enderlein, <em> Coloantrops </ em> gen. nov., <em> Maculantrops </ em> gen. nov., <em> Photoantrops </ em> gen. nov., and <em> Poecilantrops </ em> gen. nov. </ strong> </ p>, Zootaxa 3704 (1), pp. 1-113 : 101

Poecilantrops marensis sp. nov.

( Figs. 183, 187 , 239 )

Description. Head dark brown, prementum and antenna orange. Anterior genal bristle about 0.5X length of vibrissal bristle.

Thorax mostly covered with microtomentum, ventral three-quarters of anepisternum, katepisternum, meron, and posterior half of metapleuron shiny.

Foreleg with coxa, trochanter, and femur yellow, tibia and 2 basal tarsomeres dark brown, distal 3 tarsomeres whitish. Midleg orange, coxa black, femur brownish on basal half. Hind leg orange, femur black on basal half, tibia slightly brownish on distal half.

Wing with membrane and veins pale brown, white spots on crossveins r-m, bm-cu, dm-cu, and 2 along vein R 4+5 distal to crossvein r-m.

Abdomen with syntergite 1+2 fused with tergite 3. Tergites covered with microtomentum.

Male postabdomen: Sternite 5 slightly longer than wide, lateral margins rounded, posterior margin notched, 2 divergent anterior apodemes, both thin, extending to level of sternite 3 ( Fig. 187 ). Surstylus scooped, subrectangular, slightly asymmetrical with anteroventral corner of right surstylus more acutely pointed. Postgonite with lobes broadly separated, anterior lobe broad, rounded, posterior lobe narrow, pointed, short. Basiphallus swollen, no distinct epiphallus or preepiphallus. Distiphallus short, with a thin spinose dorsal tube and a long ventral projection ( Fig. 183 ).

Female not dissected.

Type material. Holotype ♂: BRAZIL: Paraná: Curitiba , "Sitio H", [no collector], 21 Jan 1978, debu01039071 ( DZUP) . Paratypes: São Paulo: Est. Biol. Boracéia, dung pans, 2 Dec 2008, G.F. Gonçalves Miranda (1 ♂, MZSP) ; São Paolo, 22 Dec 1975, V. Alin (1 ♀, ZMUM) .

Comments. The species name refers to this species' occurrence in the Serro do Mar.

Figures

FIGURES 181–188. Poecilantrops male terminalia. (181) P. dominicus, phallus, postgonite, and phallapodeme, lateral view; (182) P. flavifemur, phallus, postgonite, and phallapodeme, lateral view; (183) P. marensis, phallus, postgonite, and phallapodeme, lateral view; (184) P. plaumanni, phallus, postgonite, and phallapodeme, lateral view; (185) P. dominicus, sternite 5; (186) P. flavifemur, sternite 5; (187) P.marensis, sternite 5; (188) P. plaumanni, sternite 5.

FIGURES 231–239. Archiborborine distribution maps. (231) Maculantrops hirtipes; (232) Photoantrops echinus; (233) Poecilantrops baorucensis (stars), P. dominicus (circles); (234) P. stellans; (235) P. boraceiensis (circles), P. plaumanni (stars); (236) P. crocidosternum; (237) P. psilosternum; (238) P. flavifemur; (239) P.marensis (circles), P. vittifrons (stars).