Campylocera loewi Korneyev 2016, comb. n.
Creators: name: Korneyev, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pyrgotidae
Campylocera
Campylocera loewi

description: <i>Campylocera loewi</i> (Hendel, 1908), comb. n. (figs 15–17) <i>Hypotyphla loewi</i> Hendel, 1908: 146; 1909: 11, fig. 4–6; Steyskal, 1980: 558. — <i>Prohypotyphla</i> (<i>Hypotyphlina</i>) <i>saegeri</i> Aczél, 1958: 49; <i>Hypotyphlina saegeri</i>: Steyskal, 1980: 559, <b>syn</b>. <b>n</b>. M a t e r i a l. <b>Type</b>. Holotype &amp;female; <i>Campylocera loewi</i>: <b>South Africa</b>: “ Algoa-Bay. / Capland / Dr. H. Brauns /// 13 I 97”, “ Hypotyphla / Loewi Hend / Type”, “Type” [dark brown shiny label] (NHMW). Holotype &amp;female; <i>Prohypotyphla</i> (<i>Hypotyphlina</i>) <i>saegeri</i>: <b>DR</b> <b>Congo</b>: “ Congo belge: P. N. U. / Mukana, 1.810 m. / 15-iii 1948 / Mis. G. F. de Witte ”, “ Prohypotyphla / (Hypotyphlina) &amp;female; / saegeri n. sp. / Dr. M. Aczél det.”, “ HOLOTYPUS ” [orange label with frame], “HOLOTIPO” [red label with frame], “ Inst. M. Lillo / Preparación / &amp;numero; 240 — W” [right wing detached, slide possibly in Aczél collection in IML, left wing broken, apex glued to the polypore bar] (MRAC). Non-type. <b>Nigeria</b>: N, Zaria, Samaru, 31.07.1968, 1 &amp;female;, 7.07.1972, 1 &amp;female; (J. C. Deeming) (USNM). <b>Ethiopia</b>: Bahar Dar Joni, 7.08.1968, 1 &amp;female; (Schäufelle); S. W. Ethiopia, Konso, Province Gamu Gofa, 5°16' N 37°23' E, 23.01.1960, 1 &amp;female; (W. Richter) (SMNS). <b>Uganda</b>: N, Madi Opei, 05.1951, 1 &amp;female; (van Someren) (BMNH). <b>Kenya</b>: Muguga, 04.1969, 2 &amp;female;, 8.05.1969, 1 &amp;female; (C. F. Dewhurst) (BMNH). South Africa: Limpopo (as “ Transvaal ”): Wylies Poort, Zoutpansberg, 29.01.1955, 2 &amp;female; (“B. R. S. P. G. ”); KwaZulu-Natal: Ingwavuma District, 21.09.1961, 1 &amp;female; (T. Oatley) (NMSA). D i a g n o s i s. <i>C</i>. <i>loewi</i> can be differentiated from other species of the genus from the combination of entirely yellow body, elongate pedicel, long, apically bluntly rounded and parallel-sided flagellomere 1, short and blunt, subshining ocellar triangle with 2 ocellar setae, parafacial narrower than flagellomere 1; prosternum bare, proepisternum with 2–3 setae; scapular seta twice as long as setulae; presutural supra-alar seta lacking; scutellum with 4 setae, short setulose; wing slightly darkened along anterior margin and crossvein dm-cu or entirely hyaline; vein R 2+3 with very short or without stump vein; femora ventrally short setose, with subbasal ventral (longest) seta as long as femur width; apicoventral setae short, spine-like; female mid coxa with 2 thickened setae laterally and row of 8–10 moderately short and thin black cilia medioventrally; hind coxa with slightly protruding antero-ventral surface covered with very thin and usually poorly visible setulae; oviscape long and narrow, 1.1–1.3 times as long as abdominal tergites combined, at its apical aperture with short convex, short medioventral and mediodorsal lobes and numerous setae not arranged into clear sensillar brushes or combs; aculeus (fig. 16, <i>4</i>) short, as long as oviscape width apically (fig. 16, <i>1–3</i>, arrow). It shares narrow parafacial, shape of antenna, long scapular seta, lacking presutural supra-alar seta, 4 scutellar setae and very long and narrow oviscape with <i>C</i>. <i>gracilis</i> and <i>C</i>. <i>caudata</i>, differing from them by less setulose mid coxa (in <i>C</i>. <i>gracilis</i> setae of the medioventral row strong, subequal to lateral setae, in <i>C</i>. <i>caudata</i> with thick brush of setulae) and hind coxa (in <i>C</i>. <i>gracilis</i> with sparse tuft of thickened setae, in <i>C</i>. <i>caudata</i> with thick brush of setulae wider than on mid coxa); in addition, <i>C</i>. <i>caudata</i> differs by strongly curved antero-ventrally and very long aculeus 1.4–1.7× as long as abdominal tergites combined. R e m a r k. Hendel (1908) described <i>Hypotyphla loewi</i> as the species that has a very short, stick-like arista (which was originally proposed by Loew as the key character for <i>Hypotyphla</i>); detailed microscopic study of the holotype <i>H</i>. <i>loewi</i> shows that its short arista (fig. 15, <i>5</i>) is the result of clipping it in a live specimen, and the holotype otherwise shows no differences from other specimens from South Africa listed above in the material. Specimens from Central Africa show some variability (costal margin and crossvein dm-cu slightly brownish, vein R 2+3 with very short stump vein in 20 % of specimens), but I consider them all, including the holotype of <i>Prohypotyphla</i> (<i>Hypotyphlina</i>) <i>saegeri</i> to be conspecific. I therefore synonymize the latter species with <i>H</i>. <i>loewi</i>. The nominal genus <i>Hypotyphla</i> Loew, 1873 <b>syn</b>. <b>n</b>. is considered a part of <i>Campylocera</i> and is synonymized with the latter.
description: Published as part of <i>Korneyev, V. A., 2016, New Taxa And Synonymy In The Family Pyrgotidae (Diptera Tephritoidea) Ii Subtribe Adapsiliina And Afrotropical Campylocera, pp. 195-218 in Vestnik Zoologii 50 (3)</i> on pages 209-211, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0024, http://zenodo.org/record/6453684
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