Robustagramma hebes Cui and Marshall 2005, new species
Creators: name: Marshall, Stephen A.
name: Cui, Yongsheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Robustagramma
Robustagramma hebes

description: Robustagramma hebes Cui and Marshall, new species   
(Figs. 143–149, 370)  
 As described for Robustagramma altifrons except as follows.   
 Body length 1.0– 1.6 mm. General color reddish to dark brown. Scutum with four inconspicuous grey vittae. Interfrontal bristles in 4 or 3 pairs in addition to interfrontal setulae. Eye height ca. 1.7–1.9 times genal height. Two preapical palpal bristles, ca. 1.5 times as long as maximum width of palpus.   
 Posterodorsal katepisternal bristle over half as long as distance between bristle base and wing base. Wing with length ratio of second to third costal sector ca. 0.42–0.50. Mid tibia of male with an apicoventral and several very short ventral bristles on distal third; mid femur of male with a row of 3 or 4 ventral proximal bristles.   
 Male terminalia: Sternite 5 with 3 pairs of stout bristles around borderline. Dorsomedial length of epandrium ca. 0.3X length of sternite 8. Apex of surstylus rounded in lateral view. Cercus distinctly shorter than surstylus.   
Female terminalia: Tergite 10 with 2 small bristles and several small setulae on posteromedial area. Sternite 7 longer than sternite 6, rounded posteriorly.  
Holotype (♂, DEBU) paratypes (6 ♂, 5 ♀, DEBU): UNITED STATES: Florida, Archbold Bio. Stn., scrub FIT (hill loop), 9–18.xii.1985, S.A. Marshall.  
Other paratypes: UNITED STATES: Alabama. Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, malaise, 5–7.v.1994, S.A. Marshall (1 ♂, DEBU). Florida. Archbold Bio. Stn., under mushroom, 18.xii,1985, S.A. Marshall (1 ♂, 1 ♀, DEBU). Same locality as previous label, but mushroom bait on sand, 12–18.xii.1985, (2 ♂, 2 ♀, ABSF); Lk Annie, yellow pan near shoreline, 13–18.xii.1985 (1 ♂, 1 ♀, DEBU); under fresh mushroom/sand, 13.xii.1985 (3 ♀, DEBU). Marion Co., Rd 65 Ocala Natl. For., sand­pine human dung, 10–15.vi.1984 (2 ♂, DEBU); Silver Springs Wd, sand­pine mushroom trap, 7.vi.1984 (4 ♂, 5 ♀, DEBU); vacuum wild mushroom, 22.vi.1984 (2 ♂, DEBU); wild mushroom trap, 23–24.vi.1984 (9 ♂, 12 ♀, DEBU); FIT and sand­pine FIT, 6–23.vi.1984 (2 ♂, DEBU); human dung, sandpine, 11.vi.1984 (1 ♂, DEBU), S.A. Marshall. Marion Co., sand trail to Oklawaha Swamp, 10–15.vi.1984, mushroom trap, S.A. Marshall (12 ♂, 7 ♀, DEBU). Marion Co., Ocala Natl. For., 8–11.vi.1984, Oak Grove mushroom trap (1 ♂, DEBU); 12–14.vi.1984, sandpine, maggot bait (1 ♂, 3 ♀, DEBU); Rd 80 Ocala Natl.For., 10–12.vi.1984, sand­pine FIT (1 ♂, DEBU), S.A. Marshall. Marion Co., Ocala Natl. For., Zay Prairie, 8–14.vi.1984, carrion trap (1 ♂, DEBU); Ocala Natl. For., near Zay prairie, 14–18.vi.1984, mushroom trap, Palmetto Scrub (2 ♂, DEBU); Ocala Natl.For., Salt Spring Is., 14–18.vi.1984, pine, human dung (2 ♂, DEBU); S.A. Marshall. Marion Co., 175, 4 mi N exit 67, 12–18.vi.1983, pig dung trap, R.E. Woodruff (1 ♀, DEBU). Highlands Co., Lk. Placid, Archbold Biol. Sta., M. Deyrup, 6.V.1985, malaise (1 ♂, DEBU); 13.v.1985 (1 ♀, DEBU); 28.x.1985 (2 ♂, 1 ♀, DEBU); 30.X.1985 (1 ♀, DEBU); 11.xi.1985, malaise (1 ♂, DEBU); 25.xi.1985 (1 ♂, 1 ♀, DEBU); 27.xi.1985 (4 ♂, 1 ♀, DEBU); 2.xii.1985, malaise (1 ♂, DEBU); 11.i.1986 (1 ♀, DEBU). Same locality as previous label, 12–18.xii.1985, FIT (1 ♂, DEBU); 13– 18.xii.1985, rotten fungi (1 ♂, 4 ♀, DEBU), S.A. Marshall. Orange Co., E. Orlando, 2– 3.vii.1982, pig dung, sand­pine scrub, Woodruff (2 ♂, DEBU). Georgia. Telfair Co., Little Ocmulgee St Pk near Mc Rae, 6–25.vi.1984, mushroom trap, S.A. Marshall (10 ♂, 5 ♀, DEBU). New Jersey. Burlington Co., 4 mi WNW Mt. Misery, pine­oak, carrion, 4– 19.viii.1969, A. Newton (1 ♂, DEBU). West Virginia. Pendleton Co., spruce knob, 4600', conifer for., dung, 27.vii–9.viii.1969, A. Newton (1 ♂, DEBU).  
Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the blunt and rounded surstylus apex.
description: Published as part of Marshall, Stephen A. & Cui, Yongsheng, 2005, Systematics of Robustagramma, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera), pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 1026 (1) on pages 57-59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1026.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5049813