Artemita bicolor
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Zichinelli, Marcela Maria Parada
name: Barrett, Bolívar Rafael Garcete
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Artemita
Artemita bicolor

description: bicolor (Wiedemann, 1830) (Fig. 89)
Sargus bicolor Wiedemann, 1830: 41. Lectotype: male (NMW), by designation of McFadden (1972a: 124). Type locality: “Crab Island” near Puerto Rico.
= Chrysomyia rufiventris Macquart, 1834: 264. Syntype: male (MNHN, presumed lost, according to Woodley 2001: 203). Type locality: “ Guyane ”.
= Microchrysa bruesi Johnson, 1919: 426. Holotype: male (MCZ, photos of the holotype are available here: https://mczbase. mcz.harvard.edu/name/Microchrysa+bruesi). Type locality: Jamaica, Kingston, Liguanea Plain.
= Microchrysa abdominalis James, 1936: 51. Holotype: male (MCZ, photos of the holotype are available here: https://mczbase. mcz.harvard.edu/name/Microchrysa+abdominalis); Paratypes: 2 males (MZC) and Allotype: female (MCZ). Type locality: Panama, Canal Zone, Ancon.
= Microchrysa bicolor var. maculata Lindner, 1949a: 819. Syntypes: 1 male, 1 female (NHMUK); 2 specimens, sex is dubious (unknown depository institution, according to Woodley 2001: 203). Type locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia (= Seara).
References. Lindner, 1928a: 95 (record from Paraguay); James, 1973a: 26.16–17 (cat.); James & McFadden, 1982: 17 (in key to species, list); Woodley, 2001: 203 (cat. Paraguay not mentioned).
Material examined. Paraguay: 1 ♂, [Departamento Central], Areguá, 06.ix.1980, D.C. Lovovic, MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2075). 1 ♂, Dpto. [Departamento] Concepción, Horqueta, vivero de Amburana cearensis (F.Allemão) Smith, hojas, 19.ii.1988, P.M. Mueler (MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2074). 1 ♂, Cordillera, Tobatí, Cerro Tobatí, 25.280121°S 57.093134°W, 28–29.xi. 2015, 170 masl, B. & N. Garcete coll. (MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2073). 1 ♂, Itapúa, Isla Yacyretá, región oriental, 25.iv.1993, B. Barrios (MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2072). 1 ♀, San Pedro, Cororo-Rio Ypane, 01–04.xii.1983, Malaise traps, M. Wasbauer coll. (CSCA); 1 ♀, San Pedro, Cororo-Rio Ypane, 05–09.xii.1983, Malaise traps, M. Wasbauer coll. (CSCA).
Distribution. Argentina, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (likely Asunción: Santísima Trinidad, see Lindner 1928a: 94; Central: Areguá; Concepción: Horqueta; Cordillera: Tobatí; Itapúa: Isla Yacyretá; San Pedro: CororoRio Ypane), Puerto Rico, Uruguay.
Comments. Johnson (1919: 426), in the original description of Microchrysa bruesi, mentioned an additional allotype and a paratype, sexes not stated, for which the depository institution is not known. As well, for M. abdominalis James, 1936, two paratypes and the allotype, sexes not stated, are housed in the MCZ (see above), and only the depositary institution of a third paratype remains unknown.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Zichinelli, Marcela Maria Parada & Barrett, Bolívar Rafael Garcete, 2022, An illustrated checklist of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Paraguay with three new synonyms and 22 new records of species for the country, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 5190 (1) on pages 28-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7119906