Cephalops amapaensis Rafael 1990
Creators: name: Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany
name: Marques, Dayse Willkenia A.
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Cephalops
Cephalops amapaensis

description: Cephalops amapaensis Rafael, 1990
Figs 17–32, 107
Pipunculus (Pipunculus) villifemoralis Hardy, 1965b: 22, figs 5 a–b (identification error).
Cephalops amapaensis Rafael, 1990: 359, figs 1–8, 114; De Meyer, 1994: 11; De Meyer, 1996: 27; Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012: 15; Marques & Rafael, 2017; Marques et al. 2019: 251, fig. 1a–l.
Diagnosis. Postpedicel yellow; fore coxa yellow or all coxae brown; wing brown infuscated, anal lobe narrower basally; tergite 1 velvety brown pruinose, tergites 2–5 shiny brown with inconspicuous setae; surstyli subsymmetrical, both thickened medially, with inner margins straight; apex of phallic guide stout and long, with two thin setae ventrally; ejaculatory apodeme funnel-shaped, leaning to one side; phallus trifid, with ejaculatory ducts short and backwards directed.
Intraspecific variability. Rafael (1990) provided a complete description and illustrations of the Brazilian holotype; however, we found variations in the Colombian specimens. Because of this, we provide a comparison of the variations between the Colombian and Brazilian specimens (between parenthesis, when comparable). MALE. Length 3.1 mm (versus 4.6 mm in the holotype); postcranium gray pruinose laterally and brown pruinose dorsally (Fig. 17–18); scape brown (Fig. 19); frontal triangle with inconspicuous brown callus (versus frontal triangle with narrowed black callus); scutellum with few tiny setae (Fig. 20); membrane brown infuscate (Fig. 21); all coxae brown (Fig. 17) (versus fore coxae yellow to light brown); femora light yellow in proximal third, yellow in distal three thirds (Fig. 17) (versus femora entirely yellow); hind tibia with posterior erect setae medially (versus hind tibia without posterior erect setae medially); abdomen brown, tergite 1 velvety brown pruinose, with six brown and long setae laterally, tergites 2–5 shiny brown with inconspicuous setae (Figs 18, 22) (versus tergite 1 brown pruinose basally, gray pruinose distally interrupted medially, tergites 2–3 with shiny black spot posterolaterally, tergites 4–5 brown pruinose on 1/4–1/5 basally, other apical areas black), tergites and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 23; surstyli subsymmetrical, slightly equal to epandrium length, completely setose, both surstyli thickened medially, thin at bases and apices, with inner margins straight (Fig. 24); both surstyli with tips forward-directed when seen in lateral view (Figs 25–26); gonopods subsymmetrical, left gonopod slightly thinner than right (Fig. 27); apex of phallic guide stout and long, with two thin setae ventrally (Fig. 28); ejaculatory apodeme funnel-shaped, leaning to one side (Fig. 29); phallus trifid, with ejaculatory ducts short and backwards directed (Fig. 28). FEMALE (Figs 30–32). Tergites 2–5 predominantly gray pruinose laterally (versus tergite 4–5 brown pruinose basally, shiny black posterolaterally); ovipositor base light brown, brownish-pruinose (Fig. 31); piercer yellow, except the base brown, apex shiny, straight (Fig. 32).
Examined material. COLOMBIA, Caquetá, Solano, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] Chiribiquete, Pto [Puerto] Abeja, B 4, 004’N/7226’’W, 310 m [eters], 12–19.xi.2000, J. Forero, “M954 (1 ♂ LEUA) (photographed specimen), idem (1 ♂, 1 ♀ IAvH); idem Florencia, Vda.[Vereda] Brasil, 0139’08’’N/7535’39’’W, 365 m [eters], 03.x.2017, Y. Ramos-Pastrana, (1 ♀ LEUA –35893).
Geographical distribution. French Guiana; Brazil; Colombia (Caquetá) (new record) (Fig. 107).
Habitat. The specimens were collected in preserved areas of tropical rain forest at the Colombian Amazonian, Department of Caquetá, Parque Nacional Natural Serrania de Chiribiquete, and Florencia, in the Andean-Amazon region.
description: Published as part of Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Marques, Dayse Willkenia A. & Rafael, José Albertino, 2022, Cephalops Fallén and Semicephalops De Meyer (Diptera: Pipunculidae) of Colombia, with description of five new species and an updated key to males of the Neotropical species, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5141 (3) on page 206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6592647