Borgmeiermyia paraguayana Sehnal 1998
Creators: name: Nihei, Silvio
name: Toma, Ronaldo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Borgmeiermyia
Borgmeiermyia paraguayana

description: <i>Borgmeiermyia paraguayana</i> Sehnal, 1998 Figs 1, 6, 10 <i>Borgmeiermyia paraguayana</i> Sehnal 1998: 350, Figs 1–5(male description), holotype male (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), type locality: Paraguay, San Bernardino [ca. 25°16'S, 57°19'W]. <b>Material examined:</b> BRAZIL, <i>State of São Paulo</i>, São Paulo, Ipiranga, 6 males and 1 female, xi.1998, C. [Carlos] Campaner leg. (MZSP) (one male dissected). <b>Description of female.</b> Body length: 5.3 mm (n=1), wing length: 3.8 mm (n=1). Differs from the male description (Sehnal 1998) by its parafacial with silvery yellowish pruinosity below; the antenna yellow and not multifissicorn; the narrow band on the basal portion of tergites 3, 4 and 5 silvery yellowish pruinose. Length of median lateral scutellar seta between 2/3 and 3/4 length of posterior lateral scutellar seta. <b>Comments:</b> The male was described by Sehnal (1998) with illustrations of habitus and right wing of the holotype, and the terminalia and sternite 5 of a paratype. The male aedeagus is illustrated in more detail here (Figure 1) based on a dissected male from southeastern Brazil. This species differs from <i>B. brasiliana</i> and <i>B. rozeni</i> by the median pair of lateral scutellar setae long, clearly longer than one-half length of posterior lateral scutellar setae and from <i>B. peruana</i> by the cerci curved not so strongly. The cerci of <i>B. paraguayana</i> differ from that of <i>B. brasiliana</i> by the apical portion of this structure broader (subtruncate) in the lateral view and by the median-posterior region no curved. As mentioned above, we found intraspecific variation in the dorsal setulosity of R 4+5 (see comments on the Key to identification). <b>Figures Ι–4.</b> <i>Borgmeiermyia paraguayana</i>: <b>Ι</b> male aedeagus, lateral view (São Paulo); <i>B. peruana</i> <b>2</b> male terminalia, lateral view (Amazonas, Manaus) <b>3</b> male terminalia, dorsal view <b>4</b> male aedeagus, lateral view. (Scale bars = 0.25 mm). <b>Puparium.</b> (Figure 10). Length: 4.9 mm (n=4), width: 2.1 mm. Medium-sized, moderately elongate, reddish-brown. Anal spiracular plates shiny black, close to each other, not prominent and clearly above midline of puparium. Each anal spiracular plate with four sinuate respiratory slits somewhat convergent with the median scar. <b>Host record:</b> The specimens from São Paulo were reared by Carlos Campaner (Museu de Zoologia, São Paulo) from one adult tettigoniid. The host was identified as <i>Phylloptera</i> sp., probably <i>Phylloptera ovalifolia</i> Burmeister, 1839 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae). This is the first host record known for <i>Borgmeiermyia</i>. <b>Distribution:</b> BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) rec. n., PARAGUAY (San Bernardino)
description: Published as part of <i>Nihei, Silvio &amp; Toma, Ronaldo, 2010, Taxonomic notes on Borgmeiermyia Townsend (Diptera, Tachinidae) with the first host record for the genus, pp. 101-110 in ZooKeys 42 (42)</i> on pages 106-107, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.42.190, http://zenodo.org/record/576654
description: {"references": ["Sehnal P (1998) A new species of Borgmeiermyia Townsend, 1935, from Paraguay (Insecta: Diptera: Tachinidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 110 b: 349 - 354."]}