Neopleurophora colobopyga 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 colobopyga

description: Neopleurophora colobopyga, sp. nov.   
(Figs. 104–107, 182, 220, 300–301)  
 Diagnosis (males). Epandrial medial process large, bifurcated into a two-pointed left sclerotized process and a rounded right process; hypandrium left lobe with truncated posterior margin.   
 Material examined. Holotype ♂, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Las Alturas: Echandi Tr., 8.97ºN, 82.83ºW, 15.viii.1995, Trigona fulviventris nest entrance, B. Brown col. (LACM).   
 Description. Male. Body length, 2.9 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, pubescent, without median furrow. Flagellomere 1 light brown, ventrally with gray pubescence, oval. Arista pre-apical, pubescent. Palpus light brown; two upper genal and one lower genal setae. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, pleural sclerites brown; anepisternum setulose dorsally, with one long seta; scutellum dark brown, posteriorly brown. Legs light brown. 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 ratio, 3.7. Midtibia with one anterodorsal and one posterodorsal setae at basal fourth (Fig. 182). Hind femur swollen (height/length ratio, 0.40), without strong ventral setae. Hind tibia with two anterodorsal and 4–5 posterodorsal setae (Fig. 220). Wing. Costa 0.46 of the wing length, other wing features as for the genus. Halter dark brown with apical, orange maculation. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, with lighter posterior band. Hypopygium light brown (Figs. 104–107). Epandrial medial process large, bifurcated into a twopointed sclerotized left branch and a rounded right branch with short anterior pointed projection. Epandrial right posterior margin with subepandrial setulose process. Hypandrium left lobe large, pointed, with truncated posterior margin; right lobe narrow. Hypoproct with two setae. Phallus (Figs. 300–301). Basiphallus with large dorsal process. Core plate flattened, large, bilobed, with pointed left lobe. Epiphallus with large, sclerotized scales, connected to the right arm at the left of the phallus. Ventral plate well developed, apically bifurcated into a secondary scaled process bearing large, sclerotized scales and a medial lobe bearing an adjacent scaled process.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Geographic distribution. Known only from the type-locality in a low altitude site in west Costa Rica.   
 Etymology. The specific epithet colobopyga refers to the truncated posterior margin of the hypandrial left lobe, and is derived from the Greek roots kolobos (incomplete, truncated) and pyge (rump, buttocks).   
 Comments. Neopleurophora colobopyga is probably related to N. lamasi, sharing with this species a truncate, left hypandrial lobe, an apically pointed phallic core plate, and epandrial medial process right lobe apically with an anterior projection.
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 page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3657.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5265587