Coproica hirtuloidea
Creators: name: Bergeron, Matthew D.
name: Marshall, Stephen A.
name: Swann, John E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Coproica
Coproica hirtuloidea

description: Coproica hirtuloidea (Duda, 1925)
Figs. 166–177
Leptocera (Coprophila) hirtuloidea Duda, 1925: 206 [both sexes]. Type locality: Peru, Cuzco [3,200–4,000 m]; Bolivia, Mapiri, Lorenzopata. STs (SMTD).
Description. As in Coproica bifurcata with the following exceptions.
Body length 1.2–2.0 mm. Interfrontals in 3 subequal pairs. Three genal setae in longitudinal row posterior to vibrissa, anterior seta approximately 1.5 times as long as posterior setae.
Katepisternum with 2 small, subequal dorsal bristles, each approximately 1/6 as long as the distance between dorsal margin of katepisternum and wing base. Mid tibia with small, proximal posterodorsal bristle at 2/5. Mid basitarsus with row of 3–4 small anterior bristles between 2/3 and apex, anteroventral row of 5–6 small bristles along entire length, often 2–3 small posteroventral bristles in variable positions. Anal vein with distinct angulate bend.
Male terminalia: Surstylus with quadrate posteroventral lobe with patch of small ventral setae, ventral margin straight. Left postgonite broad, blunt at apex, right postgonite narrow and sinuate in distal 1/2, blunt at apex. Basiphallus L-shaped. Lateral sclerites of distphallus with membranous process at proximal dorsal angle, 2 small dorsal processes subapically, an additional small medial projection on proximal process, and a small pointed process on ventral apical angle; central sclerite fused to lateral sclerites subapically. Membranous sheets short, broad.
Female terminalia: Sternite 7 shallowly concave along posterior margin. Sternite 8 rounded with convex anterior margin. Sternite 10 with a pair of enlarged medial bristles and wavy posterior margin. Spermathecae pear-shaped; duct approximately 3–4 times as long as spermathecal bulb.
Type material. Syntypes: PERU: Cuzco, 3200–4000m (♂, ♀, SMTD). BOLIVIA: Mapiri Lorenzopata (♀, SMTD).
Material examined. See Appendix A.
Distribution: Neotropical: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Venezuela.
Comments. The original description of C. hirtuloidea also fits C. bifurcata and C. emarginata, closely related species with ranges that overlap with the newly documented range of C. hirtuloidea. The type specimens of C. hirtuloidea, however, are from Peru and Northern Bolivia, far south of the range of C. emarginata and north of the main range of C. bifurcata although there is one series of the latter species from high altitudes (870m) in Southern Bolivia. We are therefore confident that our concept of C. hirtuloidea is correct. Dissection of a male type would be necessary to confirm this conclusion, but we have thus far been unable to examine the types of C. hirtuloidea.
See also comments under C. bifurcata and C. emarginata.
description: Published as part of Bergeron, Matthew D., Marshall, Stephen A. & Swann, John E., 2015, A review of the New World Coproica (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) with a description of 8 new species, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 3953 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3953.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14951152