Neopleurophora brachytarsus 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 brachytarsus

description: Neopleurophora brachytarsus, sp. nov.   
(Figs. 120–123, 186, 224, 308–309)  
 Diagnosis (males). Short foremetatarsus (length/width ratio, 3.0). Epandrial medial process large, bifurcated into an apically round left process and a pointed right process; hind tibia with one anterodorsal and three posterodorsal setae.   
 Material examined. Holotype ♂, FRENCH GUIANA: Regina: Kaw Mtn. Patawa, 4.55ºN, 52.17ºW, i.2006, Malaise trap, 300 m, J.A. Cerda col (LACM).   
 Description. Male. Body length, 2.8 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, pubescent, without median furrow. Flagellomere 1 light brown, pubescent, oval. Arista pre-apical, pubescent. Palpus yellowish-brown; one lower genal and two upper genal setae. Thorax. Scutum brown, pleural sclerites yellowish-brown; anepisternum setulose dorsally, with one long seta; scutellum brown, with medial and posterior areas gray. Legs yellowish-brown, hind femur brown at apex. Forefemur with ventral row of four strong setae near apex. Foretibia with one dorsal seta at basal third and an anterodorsal row of strong setae. Foremetatarsus short (length/width ratio, 3.0). Midtibia with one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal setae at basal third (Fig. 186). Hind femur swollen (height/length ratio, 0.43). Hind tibia with one anterodorsal and three posterodorsal setae (Fig. 224). Wing. Costa 0.47 of the wing length, other wing features as for the genus. Halter yellowish-brown. Abdomen. Tergites brown, with lighter posterior band. Hypopygium yellowish-brown (Figs. 120–123). Epandrial medial process large, bifurcated into an apically rounded left process and a pointed, ventrally curved right process. Epandrial right posterior margin with subepandrial setulose process. Hypandrium left lobe large; right lobe narrow. Hypoproct with four setae. Phallus (Figs. 308–309). Basiphallus with thin, dorsal process. Core plate flattened, bilobed. Epiphallus with transparent scales, connected to the right arm at the left of phallus. Ventral plate well developed, apically bifurcated into the secondary scaled process and a mesal scaled lobe, both bearing an adjacent sclerotized spine.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Geographic distribution. Known only from the type-locality in northern French Guiana.   
 Etymology. The specific epithet brachytarsus corresponds to the combination of the Greek root brachys (short) and the word tarsus, referring to the short foremetatarsus, and should be treated as a noun in apposition.   
 Comments. Neopleurophora brachytarsus is considerably similar to N. diffusa and N. ceratopyga. These three species share the thin, dorsal process in the basiphallus and a phallic ventral plate with two scaled processes, each process bearing an adjacent sclerotized spine. N. brachytarsus can be differentiated from these species by the presence of four setae in the hypoproct and the epandrial medial process not as large and curved as in N. diffusa and N. ceratopyga.
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 51-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265587