Neopleurophora acrochaetopyga 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 acrochaetopyga

description: Neopleurophora acrochaetopyga, sp. nov.   
(Figs. 36–39, 166, 203, 266–267)  
 Diagnosis (males). Curved projection at right apex of epandrial medial process with a large seta; hypandrium lobes elongated, left lobe bifurcated near base.   
 Material examined. Holotype ♂, COLOMBIA: Chocó: PNN Utria Send. Cocalito. 6.02ºN, 77.35ºW, 18– 28.ix.2000, Malaise trap, J. Pérez col. (IAVH). Paratypes: NICARAGUA: 1♂, Rio San Juan Refugio Bartola: 16 km ESE El Castillo, 10.98ºN, 84.34ºW, 22.iv–10.v.1999, Malaise trap, L. LaPierre col. (LACM); COSTA RICA: 1♂, Heredia: La Selva Biol. Stn., 10.43ºN, 84.02ºW, 15.i.1994, Malaise trap, Alas col. (LACM); 1♂, San José Braulio Carrillo NP, 10.12ºN, 83.97ºW, iv–v.1990, Malaise trap, 1,000 m, P. Hanson col. (LACM); COLOMBIA: 1♂, Valle de Cauca: PNN Farallones de Cali Anchicaya, 3.43ºN, 76.80ºW, 27.iii–24iv.2001, Malaise trap, 730 m, S. Sarria col. (LACM); 2♂, same data, but 17–31.vii.2001, Malaise trap, 900 m; 1♂, Magdalena: PNN Tayrona: Pueblito, 11.33ºN, 74.03ºW, 29.vii–14.viii.2000, Malaise trap, 225 m, R. Henriquez col. (LACM).   
 Description. Male. Body length, 2.2–2.4 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, pubescent, without median furrow. Flagellomere 1 light brown, pubescent, oval. Arista pre-apical, pubescent. Palpus light brown; one upper genal seta. Thorax. Scutum and scutellum dark brown, pleural sclerites brown; anepisternum setulose dorsally, with one long seta. Legs light brown, except foretibia and foretarsus, yellowish-brown. Forefemur with ventral row of strong setae along its entire extension. Foretibia with one dorsal seta at basal third and an anterodorsal row of strong setae. Foremetatarsus ratio, 4.3. Midtibia with one anterodorsal and three posterodorsal setae (Fig. 166). Hind femur swollen (height/length ratio, 0.4), without strong ventral setae. Hind tibia with 1–2 anterodorsal and five posterodorsal setae (Fig. 203). Wing. Costa 0.5 of the wing length, other wing features as for the genus. Halter white. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, with lighter posterior band and dense microtrichia producing a silvery sheen. Hypopygium brown (Figs. 36–39). Epandrial medial process with curved projection at right apex bearing one large seta and a sharp projection laterally at the right, near base. Epandrial right posterior margin ventral apex with large, posterior projection, without subepandrial setulose process. Hypandrium lobes elongated, with approximately the same size, left lobe bifurcated near base. Hypoproct with three setae. Phallus (Figs. 266–267). Basiphallus without dorsal process. Core plate membranous, with left projection. Epiphallus ending free, with thin, transparent scales. Ventral plate restricted to the right side, long and thin.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Geographic distribution. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and northern and western Colombia (not in Amazonian Colombia).   
 Etymology. The specific epithet acrochaetopyga refers to the hypopygial apical seta, and is derived from the Greek roots akros (tip), chaite (long hair, seta) and pyge (rump, buttocks).   
 Comments. Neopleurophora acrochaetopyga shows great resemblance with N. tanytarsus and N. carcharopyga, especially in the phallic morphology. Neopleurophora acrochaetopyga can be differentiated from these two species by its hypandrium left lobe bifurcated at base.
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 19-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265587