Neodiogmites lanei Carrera 1949
Creators: name: Alvim, Edgar
name: Ale-Rocha, Rosaly
name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Neodiogmites
Neodiogmites lanei

description: Neodiogmites lanei (Carrera, 1949)
(Figs. 1, 4c, 7, 10)
Lastaurax lanei Carrera, 1949:110, Figs. 28, 51, 83, 108; Hull, 1962:240, Figs. 1071, 1080; Martin & Papavero, 1970:28 (catalog).
Neodiogmites lanei; Artigas & Papavero, 1988:213 (key); Papavero, 2009:74 (catalog); Geller-Grimm et al., 2011 (catalog online).
Diagnosis. face and frons golden pruinose; palpus brown, yellow setose; pronotum and scutum black, yellow pruinose laterally; coxae black, gray pruinose, yellow setose, femora reddish, tibiae yellowish; wings slightly dark; abdomen conical, black with yellow posterior margin, tergite 1 white pruinose posteriorly and laterally with long yellow setae, tergites 2 and 3 with yellow triangular pruinose spot laterally.
Redescription. Holotype male. Measurements: body 17 mm; wing 13 mm. Head: face covered by golden pruinose, flat in middle, prominent at subcranial margin and antennal base (Fig. 10); mystacal setae yellow; frons golden pruinose, triangular black spot centrally; tuft of black setae above insertion of each antenna; orbital setae black; ocellar callus black with sparse golden yellow pruinose and black setae; postocular setae thick and yellow, occiput golden pruinose, ocellar callus black posteriorly, occipital setae yellow; palpus (Fig. 1) brown, yellow setose; proboscis brown, darker apically, yellow setae ventrally; lower occipital setae yellow; scape and pedicel reddish, setae black, postpedicel dark, basal half black setose dorsally (Figure 4c). Thorax: second cervical sclerite black, golden yellow pruinose with thin yellow setae; pronotum black, yellow pruinose laterally, anterior margin of antepronotum with thick and thin yellow setae; postpronotum with thick and thin yellow setae laterally; proepisternum yellow pruinose with thin yellow setae; postpronotal lobe reddish, yellow setose; three notopleural, two supra-alar and four postalar setae, all black; scutum black, yellow pruinose laterally; dorsocentral setae on same line of postpronotal lobe; scutellum black, sparse yellow pruinose dorsally, margin with thin yellow setae and two black setae; pleura yellow pruinose, except katepisternum, gray on ventral portion, and anepisternum, black in middle, both with yellow setae. Legs: coxae black, gray pruinose, yellow setose, abundant on fore coxae; femora reddish, mid and hind femora slightly darker, short, black setae dorsally short and yellow setae ventrally; tibiae yellowish, black pruinose, black setose, except fore and hind tibiae yellow pruinose ventrally; first tarsomere yellowish, remaining brown, all black setose. Wing: slightly darkened; alula hyaline; halter brown (Fig. 7). Abdomen: conical, black with posterior margin of tergites yellow, tergites 7 and 8 with posterior half reddish; tergite 1 white pruinose on posterior margin, laterally with long and short yellow setae; tergites 2 and 3 with yellow triangular pruinose, patch larger on tergite 2, bearing short yellow seta; tergite 4 laterally with small white pruinose patch; tergites 4–8 covered with short black setae; sternites black with sparse white and thin yellow setae; terminalia black glossy with black setae and some yellow setae on cerci. Terminalia: not studied.
Male: Unknown.
Variation. The paratype has reddish-yellow legs except brown on the last three tarsomeres of the fore legs and all tarsomeres of the mid and hind legs; abdominal tergites 1–3 without white pruinose patches laterally.
Comments. Neodiogmites lanei can be easily distinguished from the others species of Neodiogmites by the pronounced base of the antennae, a characteristic that is not found in any other species of the genus.
Geographic record. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro.
Type material examined. Holotype ♀: BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro: Tinguá, i.1941, S.F.A. leg. (MZUSP). Paratype: BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro: Tinguá, i/1940, SFA leg. (1♀ NHM).
description: Published as part of Alvim, Edgar, Ale-Rocha, Rosaly & Bravo, Freddy, 2014, Taxonomic revision of Neodiogmites Carrera, 1949 (Diptera, Asilidae) and description of two new species, pp. 101-126 in Zootaxa 3861 (2) on pages 123-124, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3861.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/226795