Fannia embera Grisales, Wolff & De, 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Grisales, Diana
name: Wolff, Marta
name: De, Claudio J. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Fanniidae
Fannia
Fannia embera

description: Fannia embera sp. nov.
(Figs. 25, 43, 61, 79, 97, 115)
Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex. Hind femur on posteroventral surface with pre-apical protuberance and 1 row of long setae ending on the protuberance, where they are developed and have hooked apices, a set of dense v on basal half that become scarcer and run towards the posteroventral surface, 1 row of long av on basal half and 1 row of short av on apical third; hind tibia with 1 row of 6–7 ad and 2 median av.
Description. Holotype male: body length: 3.6 mm; wing length: 3.2 mm.
Head: eye with sparse setulae. Frontal vitta velvety dark brown, weakly silver pollinose. Interocular space 0.06 mm. Fr 10, spaced. Ocellar triangle black. Oc proclinate and converging, 4 posterior most setae shorter. Poc parallel. Fronto-orbital plate greyish pollinose, posterior area black. Parafacial greyish pollinose and short setae on basal third. Gena weakly brown greyish pollinose. Scape black, golden-brownish pollinose on apical margin, with a short and weak seta. Pedicel brown, golden-silver pollinose, apical margin weakly yellowish, with dorsal setae short. Postpedicel golden pollinose, 2.5 times the length of pedicel. Arista brownish with basal third lighter in color; pubescent. Palpus brownish and weakly claviform.
Thorax: brown-greyish; scutum brown, without vittae, golden pollinose up to second postsutural dc and last row of postsutural ac; grey up to base of scutellum, on notopleural region, postpronotum and pre-sutural area; scutellum brown up to discal area and grey on apex. Acr 3:3, not arranged in rows. Dc 2:3. Pprn 3 developed and 1 weak. Pra 2, short, and near spal. Prepm without ground setulae. Pre-basal scutellar area with few ground setulae. Subapical scutellar setae absent. Three discal scutellar setae. Lateral scutellar setae absent.
Wing: yellowish. Calypters whitish with yellow margin. Haltere whitish with base brownish.
Legs: light brown with apex of femora, base and apex of tibiae slightly yellowish, mid trochanter yellow, tarsi light brown and pulvilli yellowish. Fore femur with 1 row of sub equal pd; two rows of p that increase in length on apical half, upper row more developed; 1 row of pv ending in 2 longer setae, 2 long pre-apical pv and 2 short apical pv. Fore tibia with 1 row of short d ending with a pre-apical seta; 1 row of short ad; 1 short apical v. Fore tarsus with basal v strong on first tarsomere. Mid femur constricted on pre-apical ventral surface; 1 row of short ad on basal half and 2 long and curved pre-apical d; 1 row of short v on basal half, 5 short and strong setae on apical half and 2 setae on basal third; 1 row of short and spaced pv on basal half and 2 rows of short and strong setae on apical half, forming a ctenidium; 1 row of p with hooked apices and 5 long and strong setae with straight apices on apical half. Mid tibia on basal half of ventral surface constricted; 1 double series of v on apical half and single series on basal half, 1 strong and long apical v; 1 series of short ad ending in 1 long pre-apical; 1 short a on edge of apical third and 1 apical; 1 short apical v; 1 median p and 2 short pre-apical; 1 short apical pv. Hind coxa with 2 setae on posterior margin. Hind femur constricted on pre-apical ventral surface; posteroventral surface with a slight preapical protuberance and 1 row of long pv ending on protuberance, setae developed and with hooked apices (Fig. 43); 1 row of a going on to dorsal surface starting on apical half and ending in 4 developed setae; 1 row of long av on apical third and 1 row of short setae (Fig. 25); densely set v on basal half, running towards posteroventral surface and decreasing in quantity (Fig. 43). Hind tibia with 1 d on edge of apical third and 1 pre-apical; 6–7 ad ending in 1 on edge of apical third and 2 pre-apical (Fig. 25); 2 median and 1 apical av; 1 short apical pv. Hind tarsus with v setae on tarsomere 1.
Abdomen: brown and trimaculate on tergites 3 and 4. Syntergite 1+2 setulose laterally. Sternite 1 bare. Sternite 5 as in Fig. 61. Terminalia (Figs. 79, 97): epandrium wider than long with long setae, particularly on basal region; cercal plate V-shaped and fused only at apex, with long and sinuous setae, area in general setulose; surstylus fused to epandrium, straight and crossing, inner face setulose, particularly on basal area, with wide and pointed lateral projection and with long setae, particularly at apex; bacilliform process absent; hypandrium and associated structures as in Fig. 115.
Female: unknown
Variation: setulae on eye not visible, frontal vitta lighter brown and black on posterior region,8 fr. Scutum grey-brownish pollinose up to intra-alar area, supra-alar area and postpronotum brown, 2 diffuse vittae on presutural area between acr and dc; acr 2:3; 2 discal scutellar setae. Mid tibia with 1 row of v on apical half; hind tibia with 1 median av.
Biology. according to collecting data, Fannia embera sp. nov. may be a hemi-synanthropic species, associated with humans and forest environments.
Comments. the Pacific Colombian littoral, type-locality of the species, borders Panama and therefore the flora and fauna of Central America. In this region it is possible to find very humid and well preserved tropical forest. This species belongs to the sub-group pusio of the canicularis group.
Etymology. name in apposition. The species epithet refers to the indigenous people Ember, who inhabited several regions of Colombia, including the region of Choc, type-locality of the species. The word “ Emberá ” means “the corn people.
Type material. Holotype male (CEUA). Colombia. Chocó. Jobí. Chagualito\ Patio de casa.0 m.\ VSR pescado [Van Someren–Rydon trap with fish] \ Agosto 1–2/ 2006 \ P. Duque and M. Wolff. CEUA. Paratypes: Colombia. Chocó. Jobí. Chagualito\ Patio de casa.0 m.\ VSR pescado [Van Someren–Rydon trap with fish] \ Agosto 1–2/ 2006 \ P. Duque and M. Wolff. CEUA (1 male, CEUA); Colombia. Chocó. Jobí. Chagualito\ Patio de casa. 0 m.\ VSR pescado [Van Someren–Rydon trap with fish] \ Agosto 1–2/ 2006 \ P. Duque and M. Wolff. CEUA (26 females, CEUA; 2 females DZUP). The holotype lacks the abdomen, which had been previously dissected for analysis of the terminalia. The rest of the specimen is in good condition.
Distribution. Colombia: department of Chocó (Pacific region).
description: Published as part of Grisales, Diana, Wolff, Marta & De, Claudio J. B., 2012, Neotropical Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera): new species of Fannia from Colombia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 3591 on pages 24-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213946