Cerozodus ayalai Camargo & Vieira & Rafael 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Camargo, Alexssandro
name: Vieira, Rodrigo
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Cerozodus
Cerozodus ayalai

description: Cerozodus ayalai sp. nov.
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(Figs 13–16, 23)
Diagnosis. Face yellowish white pruinose; mystacal macrosetae yellowish with some brown macrosetae dorsally (Fig. 13C–D); scape and pedicel dark yellow; postpedicel conical, dark brown; second article of stylus with a rounded lobe on basal half (Fig. 14A–B); legs yellow (Fig. 13A); abdomen yellowish brown (Fig. 13A–B); terminalia reddish yellow (Fig. 14E–G); epandrial arms curving abruptly apically (Figs 15B–C,15G–H) with a small rounded projection internally sub-apically (Figs 15C, 15H); gonocoxite rounded and inwardly curved apically with a very short conic projection sub-apically on external margin (Fig. 16B–C) and with a triangular indentation sub-apically ventrally (Figs 16A, 16D–E); gonostylus broad medially with a slight concavity on dorsal apex (Fig. 16F).
Description. Holotype male (Figs 13–16). Head (Fig. 13C–D): eyes black; face yellowish white pruinose becoming whitish at lower facial margin and lower parafacial area; mystacal macrosetae and setae yellowish with four dark brown macrosetae dorsally; subvibrissal setae pale yellowish; gena black, whitish pruinose; palpus yellow, light brown apically, whitish setose ventrally and with some dark brown setae apically and 2–3 yellowish macrosetae apically; proboscis black, dark yellow basally, labial setae yellowish and proboscial setae whitish; frons golden brownish yellow pruinose, whitish on antennal socket; orbital setae brown dorsally and white ventrally; ocellar tubercle black, golden brown pruinose with one pair of proclinate, dark brown setae; vertex golden brownish yellow pruinose with sparse yellow setae on posterior half; occiput whitish pruinose; 10–11 yellowish postocular macrosetae; occipital and lower occipital setae white. Antenna (Fig. 14A–B): scape and pedicel dark yellow, sparsely yellowish pruinose; scape yellowish setose ventrally and dark brown dorsally; pedicel with dark brown setae; postpedicel slightly shorter than scape, conical in anterior view, dark brown with dark golden brown pruinosity, and with five yellowish setae on dorsal margin sub-basally; stylus dark reddish brown becoming dark yellow towards apex, first article tubular and short; second article with a rounded lamellar projection ventrally directed on basal third, slightly larger than postpedicel, remainder of article thin, only slightly enlarged sub-apically and tapering distally, tip dark yellow.
Thorax (Figs 13A–B, 14D): brown; antepronotum golden brownish yellow pruinose dorsally and greyish brown laterally; scutum with median stripe, pre and post-sutural spots and prescutellar spots brown pruinose; paramedian stripes dark brown, almost black pruinose; postpronotal lobe and area between pre and postsutural spots, transverse suture and lateral margins of scutum brownish yellow pruinose; posterior margin of scutum and postalar callus greyish brown pruinose; scutellum greyish pruinose (Fig. 14D); pleura greyish pruinose, except for a small brownish yellow spot dorsally on anepisternum. Chaetotaxy: antepronotal macrosetae yellowish and setae whitish; 2 notopleural (1 yellow on right side of the body); 1 supra alar; 1 postalar and 3 pairs of dorsocentral black macrosetae; scutum with short black acrostichal setae and thin whitish setae above wing insertion; scutellum with short, sparse, yellowish white discal scutellar setae (2 brown setae mixed) (Fig. 14D); katatergite with yellow macrosetae and whitish setae; anepisternum dorsally with short black setae before wing insertion and a few whitish setae posteroventrally; proepisternum whitish setose; remainder of pleura with a few scattered, thin, whitish setae.
Wings (Fig. 14C): translucent; veins dark reddish brown, dark yellow at base and at mid portion of vein R 1; bifurcation of R 4 and R 5 beyond discal cell at a distance equivalent to the length of one crossvein r-m; crossvein r-m slightly after middle of discal cell; m3 and cua closed before wing margin. Halteres: pale yellow.
Legs (Fig. 13A): yellow, except femora anterodorsally and dorsally slightly reddish, apex of hind tibia reddish, fore and mid tarsi with apices of tarsomeres reddish, hind tarsus reddish, and tarsi with last tarsomeres dark reddish brown becoming black apically; coxae greyish pruinose. Chaetotaxy: coxae with whitish macrosetae and setae; hind trochanter with 2 lateral and 3 posteroventral yellowish white macrosetae; fore femur with 5–6 ventral white macrosetae; mid femur with 5–6 ventral white macrosetae, 4 anteroventral (inner one yellow), 3 anterior, 1 posterodorsal apical black macrosetae and 1 posterodorsal yellowish macrosetae; hind femur with 5–6 anteroventral, 2 anterodorsal, 1 pair dorsal preapical, and 1 pair of posterodorsal apical black macrosetae, 1 posteroventral and 3 ventral yellowish macrosetae, fore and mid femora with anterior and dorsal setae black, other setae yellowish, hind femur with only a few black setae dorsally at apex; tibiae with black macrosetae and short white setae, anterodorsally with black setae; tarsi with black macrosetae and setae except for a few sparse whitish setae on first tarsomere of fore tarsus; brush setae whitish to golden yellow; pulvilli pale yellow; empodium dark reddish; claws black, except basal extremity dark reddish yellow.
Abdomen (Fig. 13A–B): yellowish brown, T1 dark brown to black on anterior half; tergites yellowish pruinose, whitish laterally; T1 with a bunch of yellowish lateral marginal macrosetae and setae and yellow setae dorsally at posterior margin; T2–T4 with 5–6 and T5–T7 with 4–5 lateral marginal yellowish macrosetae; T8 with 4–5 black lateral marginal macrosetae, other setae yellowish; T2–6 with short mid-dorsal dark brown setae and laterally with short yellowish setae, T7 and T8 with only short yellowish setae; sternites yellowish brown and whitish pruinose with short, sparse yellowish and whitish setae.
Terminalia (Figs 14E–G, 15–16): reddish yellow, except epandrium dorsolaterally and anteriorly slightly darker (Fig. 14E–F); yellowish setose, except epandrium dorsally with short black setae, and sub-apically, laterally and ventrally with long black setae (Fig. 14E–G); hypandrium with 7–8 whitish to yellowish macrosetae at posterior margin laterally to mid-posterior projection (Fig. 14G); hypandrium rectangular with a tongue-like projection at mid-posterior margin, bifid apically (Fig. 15D); epandrial arms diminishing and abruptly inwardly curved apically, forming a slight concavity sub-apically (Figs 15B–C, 15G–H), rounded in lateral view (Figs 15A, 15I), and with a small rounded projection internally, sub-apically (Figs 15C, 15H); cercus conical; subepandrial sclerite conical, flat in lateral view, with a small triangular projection at base laterally (Fig. 16H–I); gonocoxite rounded and inwardly curved apically with a very short conic projection on external margin sub-apically (Fig. 16B–C) and with a triangular indentation ventrally, sub-apically (Figs 16A, 16D–E); gonostylus broad medially with a slight concavity on dorsal apex bearing a minute conic projection on external margin sub-apically, and with a short, comma-like projection mid-ventrally, sparsely covered with short setae dorsally (Fig. 16F); ejaculatory apodeme short and broad proximally (Fig. 16G).
Length. Body: 14.6 mm; wing: 8.3 mm.
Holotype condition. Right hind tarsus broken and held by setae from fore and mid legs (Fig. 13A); terminalia dissected and placed in microvial with glycerine and pinned with the specimen.
Female. Unknown.
Variation. Face golden yellow pruinose; mystax with 5 dorsal dark brown macrosetae; ocellar tubercle with only a single ocellar seta; scape with some ventral black setae mixed with other yellowish setae; stylus entirely black; subvibrissal setae black; postocular setae black internally; hind femur and tarsus slightly darker; epandrium black anteriorly and dorsolaterally; terminalia reddish brown to dark brown; epandrium with reddish brown apex.
Etymology. ayalai, name in honor of Venezuelan Asilid researcher Jose Manuel Ayala-Landa.
Distribution. Brazil (Maranhão and Tocantins) (Fig. 23).
Material examined. Holotype. BRASIL: TO[cantins]: Brejinho de Nazaré [11°01′07″S 48°34′09″W], Rio Crixás—Floresta Ciliar — LIV Arm.[adilha] Malaise, 29.viii–15.ix.1998, Tozoni, S.H.S. & col.[etores] BIOTA-FAPESP (Fig. 13A [insert]) (♂ MZUSP). Paratypes. BRASIL, MA[ranhão], Mirador, Parque Est.[adual] Mirador, Base da Geraldina [06°37′25″S, 45°52′08″W] / Armadilha Malaise 22–26.x.2006, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira (1 ♂ INPA); Same data, 28.ix–02.x.2006 (1 ♂ CZMA); Brasil: TO[cantins]: Lizarda, Cerrado pr. Testa Branca, 09°29′25.9″S 46°35′06.1″W, 22.ix–05.x.2006, Silva, R. R. & Feitosa, R.S.M., cols (1 ♂ MZUSP).
description: Published as part of Camargo, Alexssandro, Vieira, Rodrigo & Rafael, José Albertino, 2022, Taxonomic review of Cerozodus Bigot, 1857 (Diptera: Asilidae: Asilinae) with the description of two new species, pp. 151-186 in Zootaxa 5209 (2) on pages 170-171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5209.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7325889