Falbouria acorensis Parent

• Main Authors: Capellari, Renato Soares, Amorim, Dalton De Souza
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Dolichopodidae; Falbouria; Falbouria acorensis; Seta; Balfour; Jorge Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6176088; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6176088

Falbouria acorensis (Parent) (Figs. 1–7) Balfouria acorensis Parent, 1933: 75 (fig. 1). Falbouria acorensis (Parent): Dyte, 1980: 223. Grichanov, 2010: figs. 8–9 (habitus of holotype). Diagnosis. As for the genus. Material examined. HOLOTYPE 3, AZORES, Pico Island, Serra Gorda, 24.vii. 1929, J. Balfour-Browne leg. (BMNH). Additional material: 13, 4 Ƥ, São Miguel Island: 2 km S Pico da Pedra, 37 º 47 'N, 25 º 35 'W, 1.xi. 2006 (sweeping undergrowth of deciduous forest) (SMOC); 1 Ƥ, Caldeira Velha (near Ribeira Grande), 37 º 47 'N, 25 º 30 'W, 7.ix. 2006 (sweeping undergrowth of broadleaved forest) (SMOC); 1 Ƥ, same data except Lombadas, Ribeira Grande river, 37 º 47 'N, 25 º 27 'W, 5.ix. 2006 (sweeping riverside vegetation) (SMOC); 1 Ƥ, Sete Cidades env., 37 º 51 'N, 25 º 48 'W, 31.viii. 2006 (sweeping over meadow) (SMOC); 13, 1.5 km SE Sete Cidades, 37 º 51 'N, 25 º 47 'W (on refuse heap in mixed forest) (SMOC); 1 Ƥ, Sete Cidades, Lagoa Verde, 8.ix. 2006 (sweeping undergrowth of deciduous forest) (SMOC); 33, Sete Cidades, 17.v. 1938 (UZMH); 2 Ƥ, same data except Santo António, Atalhada res., 37 º 51 'N, 25 º 13 'W, 6.ix. 2006 (sweeping undergrowth of laurel forest) (SMOC); 1 Ƥ, Furnas, 19–21.v. 1938 (UZMH); 1 Ƥ, Furnas, 23.vii– 1.viii. 1938 (UZMH); 1 Ƥ, Lagoa do Congro, 21.v. 1938 (UZMH). Faial Island: 13, Caldeira, 4.vii. 1938 (UZMH). Flores Island: 1 Ƥ, Caldeira Seca, 21.vi. 1938 (UZMH); 1 Ƥ, Fazenda Ribeira, 8.vi. 1938 (UZMH); 1 Ƥ, Mato, 15.vi. 1938 (UZMH). São Jorge Island: 23, Ribeira do Salto, 23.vi. 1938 (UZMH); 13, Ribeira Funda, 23.vi. 1938 (UZMH). Re-description. Male (Fig. 1). Body length, 2.8–3.5 mm. Wing length, 2.8–3.2 mm, width, 1.1–1.2 mm. Head. Frons light green, with some bluish reflections, about 0.3 of head width, converging ventrally; face mostly obliterated by contiguous eyes, reduced to small triangle below antennae, concolorous with frons; eyes with ventral facets enlarged (MSSC); palpus yellow, with black apical seta; proboscis brown, with brownish setulae; pair of divergent, proclinate ...