Neopleurophora microssoma Ament & Amorim 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ament, Danilo Cesar
name: Amorim, Dalton De Souza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Phoridae
Neopleurophora
Neopleurophora microssoma

description: Neopleurophora microssoma, sp. nov.   
(Figs. 24–27, 164, 200, 260–261)  
 Diagnosis (males). Hypandrium left lobe strongly sclerotized; phallic ventral plate bifurcated into a pair of thin projections, one dorsal, flattened and one ventral, curved.   
 Material examined. Holotype ♂, COLOMBIA: Amazonas: PNN Amacayacu San Martín, 3.82ºS, 70.26ºW, 16–24.viii.2000, Malaise trap, 150 m, B. Amado col. (IAVH). Paratypes: 1♂, same data as holotype, but deposited at LACM; 1♂, same data but 3.38ºN, 70.10ºW, 21–29.xii.2000 (LACM); COLOMBIA: 1♂, Putumayo, PNN La Paya, Viviano Cocha, 0.13ºS, 74.95ºW, 26–29.i.2003, Malaise trap, 210 m, C. Sarmiento col. (LACM); ECUADOR: 1♂, Napo: Yasuni Research Stn, 0.63ºS, 76.60ºW, 3–20.xi.1998, Malaise trap, T. Pape & B Viklund col. (LACM); 1♂, Zamora-Chinchipe: Rio Bombuscaro, 4.12ºS, 78.98ºW, 26.vi–4.vii.1996, Malaise trap, 1,250 m, P. Hibbs col. (LACM); FRENCH GUIANA: 1♂, Regina: Kaw Mtn. Patawa, 4.55ºN, 52.17ºW, i.2006, Malaise trap, 300 m, J.A. Cerda col. (LACM); BRAZIL: 1♂, Amazonas: Manaus: PDBFF Res. 1208, 3.13ºS, 60.02ºW, 30.x.1985, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); 1♂, Amazonas: Manaus: Reserva Ducke, 3.13ºS, 60.02ºW, 8– 15.iv.1992, Malaise trap, J. Vidal col. (LACM).   
 Description. Male. Body length, 2.1–2.6 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, pubescent, without median furrow. Flagellomere 1 light brown, pubescent, oval. Arista pre-apical, pubescent. Palpus yellowish-brown; one upper genal seta. Thorax. Scutum and pleural sclerites brown; anepisternum setulose, with one long seta; scutellum dark brown, with medial and posterior areas brown. Legs light brown, except foretibia and foretarsus, yellowish-brown. Forefemur with ventral row of medium size setae in its entire extension. Foretibia with one dorsal seta at basal third and an anterodorsal row of strong setae. Foremetatarsus short (length/width ratio, 3.2). Midtibia with one anterodorsal and 2–3 posterodorsal setae (Fig. 164). Hind femur not swollen (height/length ratio, 0.38), without ventral, strong setae. Hind tibia with one anterodorsal and 4–5 posterodorsal setae (Fig. 200). Wing. Costa about half of the wing length, other wing features as for the genus. Halter gray with a rounded, apical black maculation. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, with lighter posterior band, and dense microtrichia producing a silvery sheen. Hypopygium light brown (Figs. 24–27). Epandrial medial process approximately square, with two pointed apical edges. Epandrial right posterior margin folded and projected medio-posteriorly, without subepandrial setulose process. Hypandrium left lobe strongly sclerotized, pointed; right lobe of medium size. Hypoproct with five setae. Phallus (Figs. 260–261). Basiphallus without dorsal process. Core plate membranous. Epiphallus ending free, covered with thin, transparent scales. Ventral plate restricted to the right side, bifurcated into a pair of thin extensions, one dorsal, flattened and one ventral, curved.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Geographic distribution. Amazonian southern Colombia, Amazonian Ecuador, northern Brazil, and French Guiana.   
 Etymology. The specific epithet microssoma refers to the small size of this fly, and is derived from the Greek roots mikros (small) and soma (body).   
 Comments. Neopleurophora microssoma can be most easily differentiated from N. prionotopyga by its approximately square epandrial medial process, with two pointed apical edges and its strongly sclerotized hypandrial left lobe.
description: Published as part of Ament, Danilo Cesar & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the genus Neopleurophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of thirty seven new species, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 3657 (1) on pages 14-16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265587