Quichuana amazonica Ricarte & Marcos-García & Hancock & Rotheray 2012, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Ricarte, Antonio
name: Marcos-García, M. Ángeles
name: Hancock, E. G.
name: Rotheray, Graham E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Quichuana
Quichuana amazonica

description: QUICHUANA AMAZONICA RICARTE & HANCOCK SP. NOV.   
FIGURES 1, 3 AND 4  
 Description   
Male  
 Head: Vertical triangle black, only pollinose in front of the anterior ocellus; ocellar triangle with long, anteriorly directed, black hairs; frontal triangle black, with long, anteriorly directed, golden yellow hairs and scattered black ones medially; antenna thinly pollinose and reddish; basoflagellomere kidney shaped (Fig. 1); bf = 1.7; face extensively white pollinose, with a central shiny black stripe not reaching the antennae; face with pale hairs except for the central stripe; lower half of the occiput with white pollinosity; occiput only with golden yellow hairs.   
 Thorax: Scutum black with golden yellow hairs; golden yellow hairs also present on the pleuron, forming tufts on the NP and posterodorsal area of the PAPT; hairs on the PC longer than the ones on the scutum; scutellum with pale hairs; scutellum black anteriorly and dark-brown posteriorly; legs uniformly light red, except femora darker red; legs mainly with golden yellow hairs, except fine, adpressed, black hairs on the apical quarter of metafemora dorsally, and scattered black hairs on the metatibia ventrally; wings extensively microtrichose.   
 Abdomen: Black terga, mainly with golden yellow hairs; tergum I apparently lacking a conspicuous, moustache arrangement of hairs; hairs longer on the lateral margins than on the centre of terga; the longest hairs of the terga occurring on the anterior corner of tergum II, as in other species; sterna with pale hairs centrally.   
 Genitalia: Superior lobes gently serrate anteriorly, excavated apically and slightly curved backwards (Fig. 3); epandrium with surstyli expanded anteriorly at mid height (Fig. 4).   
Female  
Unknown.  
 Etymology   
 The epithet ‘ amazonica ’ refers to the Peruvian locality where the holotype was collected, the Upper Amazon.   
 Material examined   
 Holotype: 1m, Upper Amazon, Peru, J. J. Mounsey / Yahuas Terr, 16.vii–12.viii.1913 (handwritten)/ C.J. Wainwright Collection, B.M. 1948–488 (NHM).   
 Range   
Peru.  
 Taxonomic notes   
The following combination of characters is unique to this species, and makes it easily recognizable: small species (7.7 mm) with slender abdomen; body hairs predominantly golden yellow (no black hairs on occiput, nor above the wings); bf = 1.7; basoflagellomere kidney shaped (Fig. 1); wing membrane hyaline, not pigmented, but wholly microtrichose; male genitalia as in Figures 3 and 4, with the superior lobes gently serrate on the outer side and with a depression apically.  
 QUICHUANA ANGUSTIVENTRIS (MACQUART, 1855)
description: Published as part of Ricarte, Antonio, Marcos-García, M. Ángeles, Hancock, E. G. & Rotheray, Graham E., 2012, Revision of the New World genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 (Diptera: Syrphidae), including descriptions of 24 new species, pp. 72-131 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 166 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00842.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5408533