Catostola maya
Creators: name: Camargo, Alexssandro
name: Vieira, Rodrigo
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Catostola
Catostola maya

description: Catostola maya (Carrera & d’Andretta, 1953) comb. rev.
(Figs 22–26, 45)
Ctenodontina maya Carrera & d’Andretta, 1953: 75, figs. 9–11; Martin & Papavero, 1970: 70 (catalogue); Lamas, 1972: 313 (catalogue); Lamas, 1973: 275, 276, figs. 1–3 (key); Fisher, 1985: 34 (species list); Artigas & Papavero, 1995: 36, figs. 12, 27, 29–34 (Lecania -group catalogue); Papavero, 2009: 30 (catalogue); Vieira, 2012: 2, fig. 1 (key); Vieira, 2014: 314 (comments); Vieira, Ayala-Landa & Rafael, 2017: 290, figs. 1, 3 (key); Sánchez & Camargo, 2021: 275, 276, 278, fig. 5 (comments, key).
Catostola maya; Hull, 1962 (2): 482 (synopsis of world fauna).
Catostola carrerai; Lamas, 1973: 275 (synonym); Artigas & Papavero, 1995: 36, figs. 17–26 (treated as valid species); Papavero, 2009: 30 (treated as synonym); Sánchez & Camargo, 2021: 273, 274, 278, fig. 4 (status revalidated, key).
Diagnosis. Face yellowish pruinose; mystax white pruinose with mystacal macrosetae white, except a few dark brown to black macrosetae mid-dorsally (Fig. 22C–D); fore and mid femora with anterior half black and posterior half yellow; hind femur black with a preapical swelling ventrally with short, stout black macrosetae (Fig. 26); terminalia shining black (Fig. 23E–G); epandrium with a small indentation dorsally at mid-length (Figs 23E, 24E); gonocoxite curved upwards on apical half with a rounded, spatulate apex with a very small tip (Fig. 25D–E); subepandrial sclerite with a pair of rounded and densely setose ventral projection (Fig. 25H–I).
Redescription. Holotype male (Figs 22, 23C–D, 26A–B). Head (Fig. 22C–D): eyes black; face yellowish pruinose; mystax white pruinose with mystacal macrosetae white, except for a group of dark brown to black macrosetae mid-dorsally (Fig. 22C–D); subvibrissal macrosetae and setae white; gena white pruinose; palpus black with black macrosetae and setae, only a few white setae at base; proboscis black, labial setae yellowish, proboscial setae white with three brown setae anteriorly; antennal socket black, yellowish pruinose; frons golden brown pruinose; orbital setae black; ocellar tubercle black, golden brown pruinose with 3 proclinate black setae behind posterior ocelli and 1 short black setae behind anterior ocelli; vertex golden brown pruinose; occiput white pruinose; 11–12 black postocular macrosetae proximally plus 3–4 yellowish macrosetae distally, other dorsal occipital setae whitish; lateral occipital and lower occipital setae white, slightly branched. Antenna: scape and pedicel black, slightly dark reddish apically, black setose, both sparsely brownish pruinose; postpedicel reddish black, whitish pruinose with 4–5 short whitish setae dorsally at base; stylus dark reddish brown, first article minute, second article long and slender, slightly enlarged subapically ending in a black tip (Fig. 23A–B).
Thorax (Fig. 22A–B): ochre brown pruinose; antepronotum and postpronotum brown pruinose laterally; scutum with a pair of dark brown almost black pruinose paramedian stripes rounded anteriorly, laterally, and fading after postsutural spots; pre and postsutural spots and prescutellar spots dark brown almost black pruinose; median stripe brown pruinose; scutellum greyish brown pruinose (Fig. 23D); pleura ochre brown pruinose. Chaetotaxy: antepronotal macrosetae and setae yellowish; 2 notopleural; 2 supra alar; 1 postalar and four pairs of dorsocentral black macrosetae after suture; scutum with short black acrostichal setae; scutellum with short sparse black discal scutellar setae (Fig. 23D); anepisternum with, thin yellowish and black setae dorsally and yellowish posteriorly; katatergite with yellowish macrosetae and setae; remainder of pleura with thin and very sparse yellowish white setae.
Wings (Fig. 23C): translucent; veins dark reddish brown, becoming dark reddish at base; R 4 slightly rounded in the junction with R 5; bifurcation of R 4 and R 5 beyond discal cell at a distance equivalent to the length of two crossvein r-m; crossvein r-m shortly after middle of discal cell at a distance equivalent to the length of one crossvein m-m; cells m 3 and cua closed before wing margin. Halteres: dark yellow.
Legs (Figs 22A, 26): coxae and trochanters black with ochre brown pruinosity; fore and mid femora with anterior half black and posterior half yellow; hind femur black with a preapical swelling ventrally; tibiae yellow, for and mid tibiae with a black spot anteroventrally apically, and hind tibia with apical half black; fore and mid tarsi dark reddish yellow, hind tarsus reddish black. Chaetotaxy: coxae with white macrosetae and setae; hind coxa with yellowish macrosetae; hind trochanter with 1 anterior and 3 posterior dark brown macrosetae; fore femur with 9–10 brown ventral black macrosetae (proximal ones yellow); mid femur with 8–9 ventral (proximal ones reddish), 6 anteroventral, 4 anterior, 1 posterodorsal preapical and 1 posterior (reddish) black macrosetae; hind femur with 2 anteroventral preapical, 1 anterior (proximal), 1 pair dorsal preapical and 1 pair apical black macrosetae, ventral swelling with 15–16 short, stout black macrosetae; fore and mid femora black setose on black parts and yellow on yellow parts, hind femur with yellow setae on anterior half and black on posterior; tibiae with black macrosetae, short black setae anterodorsally and yellowish setae posteroventrally; tarsi with black macrosetae and setae; brush setae golden brownish; pulvilli pale yellow, empodium reddish; claws black, reddish basally.
Abdomen (Fig. 22A–B): black; T1–5 dark brown pruinose mid dorsally and grey pruinose laterally; T6–7 white pruinose; T1 with 5–6 yellowish marginal lateral macrosetae and a tuft of long marginal lateral setae; T2 with 8–9 and T3 with 7 yellowish marginal lateral macrosetae; other setae yellowish with a few dark brown mixed mid-dorsally; T4–7 only with long yellowish marginal lateral setae; sternites greyish pruinose with sparse, long, thin yellowish setae; membranous bands reddish brown with pruinosity of same colour; S6 with very long, very thin, yellowish setae; S7 with a few black setae mixed posteriorly.
Terminalia (Figs 23E–G, 24–25): shining black, except apex of cercus, apex of gonocoxite and gonostylus reddish black, phallus dark reddish; terminalia black setose, except cercus, subepandrial sclerite, ventral apex of epandrium, lateral and posterior margins of S8 with reddish brown setae (Fig. 23E–G); T8 with longer black setae at posterior corners (Fig. 23E–F); S8 black setose, setae longer at apex of mid-posterior projection (Fig. 23E–G); laterally and internally with branched setae (internal setae branched), (Fig. 24C–D); epandrium with a fringe of long and stout black setae at dorsal margin with a tuft of 6–7 black macrosetae anteroventrally; epandrium rounded apically and with a small indentation dorsally at mid-length (Figs 23E, 24E); hypandrium concave at posterior margin (Fig. 24G); gonocoxite curved upwards on apical half with rounded more or less spatulate apex with a very small tip (Fig. 25A, D–E); gonocoxite slightly curved outward in dorsal and ventral views (Fig. 25B–C); gonocoxal apodeme wrench-like anteriorly (Fig. 25D–E); gonostylus strongly constricted sub-apically with rounded apex and ventral margin blade-like (Fig. 25F); ejaculatory apodeme fan-shaped, directed posteriorly; phallus with prongs long and thin (Fig. 25A, G); cercus short, rounded distally; subepandrial sclerite short with rounded apex and with a pair of rounded and densely setose ventral projection (Fig. 25H–I).
Holotype condition (Figs 22, 23C–D, 26A–B). Postpedicel (Fig. 22D) and left hind leg missing (Fig. 22A); right eye damaged (Fig. 22C), right wing damaged anteriorly, right mid femur crossed by pin, last 2 tarsomeres of right mid leg missing; abdomen cut on T4 and dissected, dissected parts in microvial pinned with the specimen.
Female. Carrera & d’Andretta (1953) mention only that the female is similar to the male with hind femora smooth without the spinous callosity.
Variation. Only one supra alar macrosetae.
Taxonomic discussion. Postpedicel, abdomen after T3 and male terminalia were redescribed based on additional material. The female paratype (Tingo Maria, 670 m, april-1947, Weyrauch) mentioned by Carrera & d’Andretta (1953) was not located during visits to the Diptera collection of the MZUSP.
This species can be easily separated from other Catostola species by the presence of a well-developed femoral swelling ventrally on hind femur of males (Fig. 26). The most similar species are Catostola carrerai comb. rev., and Catostola sagta comb. nov. These two species have a smaller and less conspicuous swelling on male hind femora (Figs 14C, 37) and can be differentiated from C. maya comb. rev., by the epandrial arm with an indentation dorsally at mid-length (Fig. 24E) and the rounded, spatulate apex of the gonocoxite (Fig. 25D–E).
Distribution (Fig. 45). Peru (Cuzco, Huánuco, Ucayali) and Bolivia (new record) (La Paz, Ichilo (as Sara)).
Material examined. Holotype: [PERU], Tingo Maria, (Rio Huallaga) 700 m, 1.4.1940, leg. Weyrauch / WRW 3940 / 23.886 / Ctenodontina maya n.sp. M. Carreira d’And. 52 ♁ / Holótipo / MZ001356 (Fig. 22A [insert]) (♁ MZUSP). Additional material. [PERU] Middle Rio Ucayali [07°57′51″S 74°42′35″W], Peru, xi.18.[19]23, F 6174 / H. Bassler Collection Acc. 33591 (1♁ AMNH); Peru, Over Monzon River [09°13′59″S 76°19′23″W] 850 m, 17-vi-1964, J. Schunke / B.M. 1964-268 / Ctenodontina maya Carrera & d’Andretta det. J.E. Chainey, 1986 (1♁ NHM); Tingo Maria [09°18′05″S 76°02′10″W], Huan. [Huánuco], Peru, May 14.1947, Alt. 2200ft. [~ 670 m] / J.C. Pallister Coll. Donor Frank Johnson (1♁ AMNH); BOLIVIA [La Paz, Larecaja]- Mapiri 4.iii.03 Sarampioni [Sarampiuni, 15°25′10″S 68°06′58″W] 700m / Coll.W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum für Tierkunde Dresden (1♁ & 1♀ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 23.i.03 Sarampioni 700m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden (1♁ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 8.iii.03 Sarampioni 700m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden [dissected] (1♁ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 10.i.03 S.[an] Carlos [15°23′58″S 68°11′00″W] 800m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden (1♀ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 20.i.03 Sarampioni 700m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden (1♀ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 8.iii.03 Sarampioni 700m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden (1♀ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 4.ii.03 Sarampioni 700m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden (1♀ SNSD); Bolivia-Mapiri 25.i.03 Sarampioni 700m / Coll. W. Schnuse 1911-3 / Staatl. Museum f̧r Tierkunde Dresden (1♀ SNSD). O.[st] [East] Bolivien Prov. [incia] Sara [Ichilo, Buena Vista, 17°27′32″S 63°39′33″W], 600-700m ix.1906 -iii.07 J. Steinbach S. V. (2♀ MfN); Bolivia Prov. Sara Dep. Santa Cruz J. Steinbach S. V. (1♀ MfN).
description: Published as part of Camargo, Alexssandro, Vieira, Rodrigo & Rafael, José Albertino, 2023, Taxonomic review of Ctenodontina Enderlein, 1914 with the revalidation of Catostola Hull, 1958 (Diptera: Asilidae: Asilinae) and description of a new species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 5276 on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5276.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7907294