Neohybos cupreus Ale-Rocha 2007, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ale-Rocha, R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Hybotidae
Neohybos
Neohybos cupreus

description: Neohybos cupreus sp. n.   
(Figs. 31–35, 78)  
 Diagnosis. Thorax dark-brown, entirely pruinose except for small shiny area on postpronotal lobe, pruinescence rust-colored on scutum and grayish on remaining parts; thoracic setae short, brown, scattered; wing sub-hyaline, stigma brown; legs brown except mid and hind tibiae pale-brown and tarsomeres 1 and 2 yellow; abdomen and legs clothed in yellow bristles.   
 Description. Holotype male. Body: 4.4 mm. Wing: 5.0 mm. Antenna placed at middle of head; postpedicel oval, 2.5 times longer than wide, as long as scape and pedicel combined. Face narrowly dichoptic as long as frons. Pair of ocellar setae long and parallel. Postcranium with sparse gray pruinescence and scattered occipital bristles.   
Thorax dark-brown; entirely pruinose except small shiny area on postpronotal lobe, pruinescence rust-colored on scutum and grayish on remaining parts; bristles short, brown, scattered; acr and dc uniserial; 2 npl as long as apical scutellar pair; scutellum with 1 apical pair parallel, rather short and 3–4 thin lateral pairs of variable size, half to one-third length of apical pair.  
Wing (Fig. 78) narrow, sub-hyaline; stigma brown; R4+5 and M1 parallel.  
Legs brown except mid and hind tibia pale-brown and tarsomeres 1 and 2 yellow; hind femur long and slightly thickened, 5.5 times longer than wide; hind tibia tubular. Outstanding bristles: fore tibia with 1 short anterior and 1 short posterior preapical bristles, shorter than half of length of corresponding tarsomere 1; mid tibia with 3 short anterodorsal bristles (2 at basal quarter and 1 at distal third), 1 long ventral apical bristle reaching apex of corresponding tarsomere 1; hind femur with 1 dorsal and 1 anterior bristles on distal fifth, 1 anterodorsal preapical, 8 developed spine-like anteroventral bristles, 14 spine-like ventral bristles (8 more distal bristles shorter and closely approximated to each other), 6 posteroventral bristles (5 at distal third and 1 sub-basal longer than basal ones); hind tarsomere 1 with 1 basal and 1 distal anteroventral thorns. Hind trochanter lacking thorns.  
Abdomen 2.7 times longer than thorax length; shiny brown with scattered brown pruinescence on Tg1, base of T2 and Tg8; bristles yellow and thin, St8 with elongate, thin bristles on distal margin. Terminalia (Figs. 31–35): right epandrial lamella deeply split distally; hypandrium long and narrow; dorsal bridge complete, as wide strip; right hypandrial lobe wide, short, with two thin pointed projections on inner margin, left hypandrial lobe not developed; postgonites narrow ribbon-like; phallus long and narrowed.  
Variations: sometimes 4 posteroventral bristles present on distal third of hind femur.  
Female: unknown.  
 Distribution. Ecuador.   
 Type material. Holotype male: ECUADOR: Tunguruhua, Banos, 2000–2500 m, 9.x.1978, M. Cooper (BMNH).   
 Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin cupreus = copper color, in reference to the pruinescence of the thorax.
description: Published as part of Ale-Rocha, R., 2007, New species of Neohybos Ale-Rocha & Carvalho (Diptera, Hybotidae, Hybotinae) from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, pp. 33-54 in Zootaxa 1503 on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/10088193