Neomuscina vitoriae 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 vitoriae

description: Neomuscina vitoriae Lopes & Khouri, 1995
(Figs. 123–128)
Neomuscina vitoriae Lopes & Khouri 1995: 51 (description), 52 figs. 11–15 (respectively: fifth sternite; cercal plate, frontal view; cercal plate, lateral view; aedeagus, frontal view; aedeagus, lateral view); Couri & de Carvalho 2002: 154 (key, spelled as vittoriae); Couri & de Carvalho 2005: 9 (listed); de Carvalho et al. 2005: 99 (catalogue).
Diagnosis: acrostichal 1:1; dorsocentral 2:4; mid femur with three preapical setae; hind tibia with one submedian anterodorsal seta.
Color: general body coloration brown; frons yellow, apex brown; facialia, parafacialia, gena and antenna brownish yellow; palpus yellow; scutum with four dark stripes of grey pruinosity; apex of scutellum yellow; calypters white; halter brownish yellow; wing hyaline.
Male. Length. Body: 6.0– 7.1 mm; wing: 6.5–7.3 mm.
Head: eyes separated from each other by 0.08–0.12 mm, at level of ocellar tubercle; 10–12 pairs of convergent frontal setae; ocellar seta large and parallel; postocellar seta large and divergent; inner vertical seta large and divergent; outer vertical seta small and convergent.
Thorax: acrostichal 1:1; dorsocentral 2:4; intra-alar 1; some exemplars with dark setulae at least on posteroventral portion of posterior thoracic spiracle in addition to the flap-like hair cover; fore tibia with distinct submedian anterodorsal seta; apex of fore tibia with setae on dorsal, posterodorsal and posteroventral surfaces; mid femur with row of setae on ventral surface from base to middle, reappearing near apex; mid femur with three preapical setae, on dorsal, posterodorsal and posterior surfaces; apex of mid tibia with setae on anterior, anterodorsal, dorsal, posterodorsal, posterior, ventral and anteroventral surfaces; hind femur with complete row of dorsal and anteroventral setae, and row of anterodorsal and ventral setae from base to middle; hind tibia with one submedian anterodorsal seta and two submedian anteroventral setae; hind tibia with anterior, anterodorsal, dorsal, posterodorsal, ventral and anteroventral setae at apex; wing with one dorsal and one ventral seta at apex of stem vein.
Abdomen: fifth sternit, in profile e projected; cercus, in posterior view, wide.
Female (differing as follows): Length. Body: 6.0–7.0 mm; wing: 6.5–7.2 mm; eyes separated each other by 0.26–0.32 mm, at level of ocellar tubercle; 10–11 pairs of frontal convergent setae, except for upper two pairs, parallel; ocellar and postocellar setae large and divergent; inner vertical seta large and convergent, and outer vertical seta large and divergent; sternite VIII with spike-like setae; epiproct with four setae, setae in a squareshaped arrangement (2:2).
Comments: Unlike the original description by Lopes & Khouri (1995), N. vitoriae has acrostichals 1:1, as evidenced by the examination of the holotype. Lopes & Khouri (1995) placed this species as being close to N. instabilis and N. schadei.
Type material examined: Holotype: male; with setae missing; fore left, median left and right and hind left legs missing; abdomen dissected and stored in a microvial with glycerin; label: white, printed “ BRASIL, Minas Gerais, Paraopeba / 10-XI-1969 / H. Ebert col.”; label: red, printed HOLOTYPE (MNRJ). Type-locality: Paraopeba, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Paratypes: BRAZIL: Minas Gerais. 6 males and 6 females “Paraopeba, Minas, BRASIL, H. Ebert, 10-XI-69 ” (MNRJ) \ 1 female “Santa Vitória, Minas, BRASIL / F.M. Oliveira, II-70 ” (MNRJ) \ 8 males and 7 females “Paraopeba, Minas, BRASIL / VII-72 ” (MNRJ) \ 1 female “Paraopeba, Minas, BRASIL, H. Ebert [two equal labels]” (MNRJ) \ Rio de Janeiro. 1 female “Seropédica, UFRRJ, RJ / mês I-II-82, d’Almeida col. | fígado” (MNRJ).
Geographical distribution: Brasil (Minas Gerais [type-locality], Rio de Janeiro).
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 page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.209438