Diplosynapsis spina Vieira & Rafael, 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Vieira, Rodrigo
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Diplosynapsis
Diplosynapsis spina

description: Diplosynapsis spina sp. nov.
(Figs. 59–66)
Diplosynapsis sp. Artigas & Papavero, 1997: 79, figs. 21 – 26; Papavero, Artigas & Lamas, 2009: 29, figs. 80–85.
Diagnosis. Mystax with black setae on superior half and yellow on lower half of facial swelling; 4 – 5 brown and 5 black postocular macrosetae; antepronotum and postpronotum black, grey tomentose; mesonotum reddish brown, sparsely golden tomentose and 2 black stripes; epandrium apex serrated in lateral view (Figs. 59, 60, 62); gonocoxite apex rounded (Fig. 63); gonostylus with dorsal elevation medially with small spines, apex wider than the preapical region (Figs. 63, 64).
Description. Male. Holotype. Head. Scape and pedicel black; 2 black ocellar macrosetae; vertex underdeveloped, black, grey tomentose; frons black, grey tomentose; 4 yellow orbital macrosetae; face black, grey tomentose laterally, facial swelling brown, grey tomentose; mystax with black setae on superior half, yellow on inferior half of facial swelling; palpus with yellow and black setae, being 1 long, thick and apical; proboscis black with yellow ventral setae; labial setae yellowish; occiput grey tomentose; yellow and whitish occipital setae; 4 – 5 brown and 5 black postocular macrosetae.
Thorax. Antepronotum and postpronotum black, grey tomentose; mesonotum reddish brown, sparsely gold tomentose and 2 black stripes; scutellum and mesopleuron reddish-brown, sparsely gold tomentose; portion of katepisternum and meron + metanepisternum black. Chaetotaxy: 1 brown and 1 black notopleural macrosetae; 1 black supra-alar seta; 1 black postalar seta; 3 black dorsocentral setae; 3 long, moderately thick, black anepimeral setae; anatergal setae whitish; one pair of black apical scutellar macrosetae and 1 brown macroseta; black discal scutellar setae; black and yellow katatergal macrosetae; setae on meron+metanepisternals yellowish.
Wing (Fig. 61). Light Brown, without costal dilation; crossvein r-m beyond middle of discal cell; microtrichia on posterior wing margin arranged in single plane; halter reddish-brown.
Legs. Femora and tibiae reddish-brown (Fig. 59); tarsomeres brown, except for black apical ones. Chaetotaxy: fore femur basal 2/3 with yellow, ventral setae and apical 1/3 with black setae; mid femur with 4 black setae anteriorly and 4 anteroventrally; hind femur with 3 – 4 black setae anteriorly and 1 yellow and 7 black anteroventrally, 1 black, anterior, preapical dorsal macroseta and 1 yellowish posteriorly; fore tibia with row of thin black setae posterodorsally; mid tibia with 4 black setae anteroventrally; hind tibia with 1 black basal and 1 preapical seta anterodorsally, 1 black preapical seta anteroventrally; tarsomeres with black setae.
Abdomen. Tergites I–V black; tergites 1–3 with grey band on apical margin; tergites and sternites 6–7 with shining silvery tomentum (Figs. 59, 60); sternites 1–5 black, grey tomentose; sternite 8 brown, apical margin straight, with long yellow setae medially.
Terminalia (Figs. 60, 62–66). Reddish brown (Figs. 59, 60); terminalia oblique to body axis (Fig. 59). Epandrium apex serrated in lateral view (Figs, 59, 60, 62); hypandrium ventral margin with slight median indentation; gonocoxite apex rounded (Fig. 63); gonostylus with dorsal elevation medially with small spines, apex longer than preapical region (Figs. 63, 64); ejaculatory apodeme long and wide on proximal region, in lateral view (Fig. 65); aedeagus apex more or less straight in lateral view (Fig. 65, 66).
Lengths: Body 18 mm; wing 12 mm.
Holotype condition. Postpedicel lost in both antennae; 1 apical scutellar seta broken off; left wing apex ripped. Wing mounted in microslide with Canada balsam. Part of abdomen and terminalia in microtube with glycerine. Microtube and microslide pinned with specimen.
Variation. Body: 19.1 mm; wing: 12.1 mm; postpedicel black except for brown base; 2 black notopleural macrosetae; 3 black and 1 yellow apical scutellar macrosetae; hind femur with 4–5 black macrosetae anteroventrally.
Female. Unknown.
Etymology. From Latin spina = spine, referring to the spines present in the gonostylus.
Distribution. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) (Fig. 76).
Comments. Diplosynapsis spina sp. nov. seems to be the same species drawn by Artigas & Papavero (1997) and treated as Diplosynapsis sp. However, the material from those authors was not available for this study. Furthermore, Artigas & Papavero (1997) did not indicate where the specimen that they studied was collected.
Type material examined. Holotype: [BRAZIL], I.[lha] [do] Fundão [22°51'19"S 43°13'53"W], RJ [Rio de Janeiro], 12.ix. [19]83, A. L. Carvalho / Holotype Diplosynapsis spina (♂ DZRJ). Paratypes: [BRAZIL], Cascadura [22°53'7"S 43°19'55"W], RJ [Rio de Janeiro], 1.x. [19]83, L.B. Nova (♂ INPA) / Paratype Diplosynapsis spina (♂ INPA).
description: Published as part of Vieira, Rodrigo & Rafael, José Albertino, 2016, Revision of Diplosynapsis Enderlein, 1914 (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilinae) with description of four new species, pp. 127-148 in Zootaxa 4208 (2) on pages 142-143, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/203823