Rhinoleucophenga undetermined Hendel
Creators: name: Poppe, Jean Lucas
name: Schmitz, Hermes José
name: Grimaldi, David
name: Valente, Vera Lúcia Da Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Rhinoleucophenga
Rhinoleucophenga undetermined

description: Key to Rhinoleucophenga species recorded in Pampas
1. Wings clouded at least on cross veins and the end of veins R 2+3 and R 4+5; body length 5.5 mm or larger.................. 2
- Wings hyaline; size variable............................................................................. 5
2. End of M vein not clouded, costal cell not clouded; body color mainly yellow...................................... 3
- End of M vein strongly clouded, costal cell clouded; body color brownish......................................... 4
3. Aristawith 9–10 dorsal branches; aedeagus dorsoventrally flattened, seems slightly oval, rounded on top, with a slight elongation (Fig. 11a)............................................... R. obesa (Loew), 1872 (sensu Malogolowkin, 1946)
- Aristawith 7–8 dorsal branches; aedeagus dorsoventrally flattened, resembles the shape somewhat D-shaped, with an elongation medially on top (Fig. 11b).................................... R. gigantea (Thomson), 1869 (sensu Vilela, 1990)
4. R 2+3 vein with ca. 2–4 clouded supernumerary veins, wings without clouded spots in the anterior region...................................................................................................... R. pampeana sp. nov.
- R 2+3 vein without supernumerary veins, wings with large clouded spots in the anterior region (on the Sc, R 1, R 2+3, basal R 4+5 and bM-Cu veins)................................................................... R. lp5 (undescribed species)
5. Scutum unicolorous, without spots or stripes................................................................ 6
- Scutum covered with small brownish spots and two diffuse longitudinal brown stripes between the dorsocentral setae..... 7
6. Arista with very short branches; yellowish fly; abdomen yellowish with interrupted brown strips........................................................................................................ R. subradiata Duda, 1929
- Arista with long branches; brownish fly; abdomen brownish with terminal portion darker brown, strips interrupted or not... 8
7. Ocelli with dark brown outline; scutellum unicolorous.................................... R. punctulata Duda, 1929
- Ocelli and ocellar triangle concolorous; scutellum with darker borders...................... R. lp1 (undescribed species)
8. Front covered with less than 70 scattered interfrontal setulae; abdomen with interrupted brown stripes; costal index less than 4; scutellum and scutum concolorous; 3 pairs of prescutellar setae................................................. 9
- Front covered with ca. 200 scattered interfrontal setulae; abdomen with continuous brown stripes; costal index ca. 4; scutellum darker than scutum, almost black, 4 pairs of prescutellar setae............................ R. lp3 (undescribed species)
9. Front covered with ca. 60 scattered interfrontal setulae, frontal index approximately 1.0; male terminalia as in Fig. 9 a–b...................................................................................... R. missionera sp. nov.
- Front covered with ca. 50 scattered interfrontal setulae, frontal index approximately 1.3; male terminalia as in Figure 10 a–c. R. sulina sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Poppe, Jean Lucas, Schmitz, Hermes José, Grimaldi, David & Valente, Vera Lúcia Da Silva, 2014, High diversity of Drosophilidae (Insecta, Diptera) in the Pampas Biome of South America, with descriptions of new Rhinoleucophenga species, pp. 215-245 in Zootaxa 3779 (2) on pages 230-231, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4910286