Chaetocnemistoptera formosa Borgmeier 1961 ...

• Main Author: Ament, Danilo César
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Phoridae; Chaetocnemistoptera; Chaetocnemistoptera formosa; Close Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6128017; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6128017

Chaetocnemistoptera formosa (Borgmeier, 1961) (Figs 1, 13, 19, 21, 23, 31, 43–46) Chaetopleurophora formosa Borgmeier, 1961: 6; 1968: 13; 1969: 36. Chaetocnemistoptera formosa; Brown, 1992a: 52. Diagnosis. Scutum, scutellum and pleural regions yellowish-brown; hind tibia with 3–5 posterodorsal setae; left epandrial process trilobed at apex. Material examined. Holotype ♀, PUERTO RICO: San José: Airport, III.1945, Borgmeier col. (MZSP). Additional material: 1♂, PUERTO RICO: El Verde: Barrio Rio Grande, G.E. Drewery, (MZSP); 3♂, US VIRGIN ISLANDS: St. Thomas Estate Botany Bay, 18.35ºN 64.92ºW, vii– 15.ix.1994, M. Ivie et al. col. (LACM); 1♂, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Guana Island: Long Man’s Point, 18.49ºN 64.58ºW, 20–25.iv.1993, Malaise trap, R. Snelling col. (LACM). Hypopygium description (Figs. 43–46). Left epandrial process large, with three apical setose lobes. Hypandrium bilobed, with triangular protuberances at apex. Hypoproct with four setae. Geographical distribution. Puerto Rico and close islands (Fig. ... : Published as part of Ament, Danilo César, 2014, Taxonomic revision of the genus Chaetocnemistoptera Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of five new species, pp. 301-322 in Zootaxa 3753 (4) on pages 305-306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/250942 ...