Neomuscina ponti Lopes & Khouri 1995
Creators: name: Pereira-Colavite, Alessandre
name: De, Claudio J. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Neomuscina
Neomuscina ponti

description: Neomuscina ponti Lopes & Khouri, 1995
Neomuscina ponti Lopes & Khouri 1995: 48 (description), 50 figs. 6–10 (respectively: fifth sternite; cercal plate, frontal view; cercal plate, lateral view; aedeagus, frontal view; aedeagus, lateral view); Couri & de Carvalho 2002: 150 (key); de Carvalho et al. 2005: 96 (catalogue).
Diagnosis: acrostichal 2:1; dorsocentral 2:4; intra-alars 2; mid femur with two preapical setae, on posterodorsal and posterior surfaces; wing hyaline.
Color: general body coloration brownish yellow; frons yellow, apex brown; facialia, parafacialia and gena brownish yellow; antenna and palpus dark yellow; scutum with four dark stripes of grey pruinosity; calypters white, with darkened borders; halter yellow; wing hyaline.
Male. Length. Body: 5 mm; wing: 6.2 mm.
Head: eyes separated from each other by 0.08 mm, at level of ocellar tubercle; ten pairs of convergent frontal setae, except the last two parallel pairs; ocellar seta large and parallel; postocellar seta large and divergent; inner vertical and outer vertical setae small and divergent.
Thorax: acrostichal 2:1; dorsocentral 2:4; intra-alars 2; apex of fore tibia with setae on anterodorsal, dorsal, posterodorsal and posteroventral; mid femur with a row of setae on posteroventral surface from base to middle, reappearing near apex; mid femur with two preapical setae, on posterodorsal and posterior surfaces; mid tibia with a row of interspersed weak and strong posterodorsal setae; apex of mid tibia with setae on dorsal, posterodorsal, posterior, posteroventral, ventral and anteroventral surfaces; hind femur with a complete row of anterodorsal, dorsal and anteroventral setae; hind tibia with one submedian anterodorsal setae and two submedian anteroventral setae; hind tibia with anterior, anterodorsal, dorsal, ventral and anteroventral setae at apex; wing with one dorsal and one ventral setae at apex of stem vein.
Abdomen: missing.
Female: unknown.
Comments: N. ponti can be easily distinguished by the acrostichals 2:1. In many aspects, it is similar to N. zosteris. However, the terminalia of the holotype of N. ponti is lost, and these two species will be kept separate here until new specimens are collected. Snyder (1949: 10) pointed that his morphospecies ‘ Neomuscina species 1’ from Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) is quite similar to N. zosteris, except for having two presutural acrostichals, similarly to N. ponti. For drawings of the terminalia see Lopes & Khouri (1995: 50).
Type material examined: Holotype: male, specimen and chaetotaxy well preserved; microvial with glycerin pinned with the specimen, but the terminalia is missing; label: white, printed “ BRASIL, São Paulo, Campinas / XII-77, A.X. Linhares col.”; label: red, printed HOLOTYPE (MNRJ). Type-locality: Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Geographical distribution: Brazil (São Paulo [type-locality]).
description: Published as part of Pereira-Colavite, Alessandre & De, Claudio J. B., 2012, Taxonomy of Neomuscina Townsend (Diptera, Muscidae) from Brazil, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 3504 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.209438