Fannia quimbaya 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 quimbaya

description: Fannia quimbaya sp. nov.
(Figs. 17, 18, 34, 52, 70, 88, 106, 124, 135)
Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex. Scutum setulose; acr 0:0; dc 0:1; hind femur on anteroventral surface without protuberance on apical half, ventral surface with a set of differentiated setae on basal third.
Description. Holotype male: body length 6.5 mm; wing length 5.25 mm.
Head: eye densely setulose (Fig. 17). Frontal vitta velvety dark brown, pollinose. Interocular space 0.14 mm. Fr 24 (Fig. 17). Ocellar triangle black; oc proclinate and developed with 5 less developed setae on ocellar area. Poc divergent. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial greyish pilose. Parafacial bare and narrowing on ventral third. Frontogenal suture pronounced and golden-yellowish pollinose. Gena brownish. Lunule brown. Scape dark brown, inner apical margin golden pollinose and 3 short setae reaching pedicel. Pedicel brown-golden pollinose on inner surface, dorsal setae short. Postpedicel brown, brownish pilose, 3 times the length of pedicel. Arista brown, pubescent. Palpus brown and filiform.
Thorax: darkbrown, pollinose, mainly on postpronotum, pre-sutural and intra-alar areas; border between postpronotum and scutum yellow; scutum without vittae. Acr 0:0, with weak setulae along acr; pre-scutellar setae weakly differentiated from ground setulae. Dc 0:1, weak setulae along dc (Fig. 18). Pprn 2 differentiated. Ia 1, developed. Pra 2, longer seta near suture. Prepm 3, area setulose. Pre-basal scutellar area with weakly developed setae. Subapical scutellar setae not differentiated. Discal scutellar setae 1 pair, weak. Lateral scutellar setae present.
Wing: brown, with upper third between veins Sc, R1 and R2+3 darker. Calypters whitish with margins yellowish (Fig. 18). Haltere brown with base brownish and stem whitish.
Legs: brown with tarsi darkened and pulvilli yellowish. Fore femur with 1 row of short d; ventral surface bare; 1 not uniform row of pv, some with straight apex and apical setae with curved apices; posterodorsal surface densely setulose, with long and weak setae with curved apices. Fore tibia with 1 pre-apical d; 1 ad on edge of apical third; 2 apical v; 1 pv on edge of apical third and 1 pre-apical. Fore tarsus with 1 strong v on first tarsomere followed by a thin seta. Mid femur constricted on pre-apical ventral surface; 1 row of short ad, apical third with long setae; 1 row of av that decrease in length on apical third; 1 row of v with hooked apices; 1 row of strongly developed pv with hooked apices, short setae on apical third; 1 row of thin p, long and with curved apices, apical third with longer setae with straight apices running towards the posterodorsal surface. Mid tibia on ventral surface with weak basal constriction, dorsal surface densely setulose on apical half, apical seta long; anterodorsal surface with median seta and pre-apical d developed setae; dorsal surface without setae; 3 apical a, 2 short and 1 long; 1 developed median p and 1 developed p on edge of apical third; 1 short apical pd; 1 apical pv. Mid tarsus with 2 basal short v on first tarsomere. Hind coxa on posterior margin bare. Hind femur weakly curved; dorsal surface with small protuberance (Figs. 34, 52); 1 row of a that increase in length towards dorsal surface; 1 row of av that increase in length towards apex, and 1 row of weak pre-apical setae that end with developed setae (Fig. 34); ventral surface with a set of differentiated setae on basal third, apical third bare; posterior surface on basal third setulose with thin setae with hooked apices, 1 row of more developed setae on apical third running towards ventral surface (Fig. 52). Hind tibia with 1 median and 1 pre-apical d; 1 row of long ad and 1 sub-median; 1 apical a; 2 median av and 1 apical (Fig. 34); 1 short apical v; 1 short apical p; 1 apical pv.
Abdomen: elongate, in general with developed setae, brown with syntergite 1+2, tergites 3 and 4 translucent brown-yellowish, brownish pollinose. Syntergite 1+2 with a set of long lateral setae. Sternite 1 densely setulose. Sternite 5 as in Fig. 70. Terminalia (Figs. 88, 106): epandrium wider than long, with weak setae mainly on basal half and with median projections curved and pointed; cercal plate longer than wide and with short setae mainly on median region; surstylus laterally articulated with epandrium, with small basal and sclerotized projections, curved and thin apically and with short and weak inner setae; bacilliform process absent; hypandrium and associated structures as in Fig. 124.
Variation: coloration paler or darker; 23–27 fr; pra in some specimens asymmetric, 2 on one side and 3 on the other; hind tibia on anterodorsal surface with more developed setae and 3 median av.
Female: similar to the male except: body length 6–6.5 mm; wing length 5.5–5.75 mm. Dichoptic. Eye with sparse setulae. Frontal vitta black to velvety dark brown, pollinose. Interocular space 0.8–0.87 mm. 10–13 fr, short and weak, 1–2 slightly longer. Ocellar triangle brown. Fronto-orbital plate sparsely greypilose. Scape with 2–3 short setae reaching the pedicel. Pedicel sometimes not pollinose. Palpus claviform. Thorax: dark brown with weak polinosity. Pra 2–3, longer seta near the suture. Two proepimeral setae. Legs: fore femur on posterior surface with weak setae, 1 apical v. Mid femur weakly constricted on pre-apical ventral surface;1 row of short av, less developed than in the male; ventral surface bare; 1 row of short and weak pv. Mid tibia on ventral surface without constriction, not densely setulose; mid tarsus without basal v on first tarsomere. Hind femur straight and more widened than in male; anteroventral surface without row of differentiated setae and 2 developed av on apical third; ventral surface on basal half with ground setulae and apical half bare; posterior, posterodorsal and posteroventral surfaces without differentiated setae. Abdomen entirely dark brown, without developed setae. Sternite 1 with a few weak setae. Terminalia (Fig. 135): cercus narrower than hypoproct, with long setae and sinuous at apex; hypoproct more or less triangular and with short and sinuous setae; sternite 8 reduced to two membranous plates with short and straight setae, two large more sclerotized and bare basal plates, near sternite 7; sternites 7 and 6 longer than wide, with long apical setae, sternite 7 with apex round and sternite 6 with base round. Spermathecae 3, irregular in shape, one spermatheca smaller than the others (Fig. 135).
Biology. According to label data, Fannia quimbaya sp. nov. is associated with the High Andean forest at Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya, located between 1800 and 2400 m. In this sanctuary it is possible to find cloud forest in different phases of succession, many species of plants and animals, and the floodplains that are important for the coffee plantations in Colombia (Parques Nacionales Naturales 2009).
Comments. Fannia quimbaya sp. nov. is morphologically close to Fannia pijao sp. nov., but differs in the arrangement of the dc 0:1. The combination of characters in these two species makes it difficult to place them into any of the groups of Fannia recognized so far.
Etymology. Name in apposition. The species epithet refers to the pre-Columbian Quimbaya, who inhabited the coffee region of Colombia, and also to the name of the Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya of the department of Risaralda, type-locality of the species.
Type material. Holotype male (CEUA). CO [Colombia]. Risaralda. Santuario de Flora y\ fauna Otún- Quimbaya.Bosque Nativo\ 1890 m. VSR [Van Someren-Rydon trap]\ Mayo 7/ 2001 \ Grupo Entomologia CEUA. Paratypes: CO. [Colombia]. Risaralda. Santuario de Flora y\ fauna Otún-Quimbaya. Bosque Nativo\ 1890 m. VSR [Van Someren-Rydon trap]\ Mayo 7/ 2001 \ Grupo Entomologia CEUA. (9 Males, CEUA); CO. [Colombia] Risaralda. Santuario de Flora y\ fauna Otún-Quimbaya.Bosque Robledal\ 1890 m. VSR [Van Someren-Rydon trap] \ Mayo 7/ 2001 \ Grupo Entomologia CEUA. (3 Males, CEUA); idem Mayo 9/ 2001 (1 male, DZUP); CO26 [Colombia, Santander]. Bucaramanga. Rasgón\VSR. Pescado [fish]. Bosque\ Agosto 25 de 2001\G. Entomologia\ CEUA 42007 (1 male, CEUA); “idem \ CEUA 42007 (1 female, CEUA); “idem \ CEUA 42014 (1 female, CEUA); “idem \ CEUA 42015 (1 female, DZUP); “idem \ CEUA 42010 (1 female, CEUA); “idem \ CEUA 42011 (1 female, CEUA); “idem \ CEUA 42016 (1 female, CEUA); “idem \ CEUA 42009 (1 female, CEUA). The holotype is in excellent condition.
Distribution. Colombia: departments of Risaralda (Andean region, Central Cordillera) and Santander (Andean region, Eastern Cordillera).
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 38-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213946