Campylocera scalaris Korneyev 2016, comb. n.
Creators: name: Korneyev, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pyrgotidae
Campylocera
Campylocera scalaris

description: <i>Campylocera scalaris</i> (Hendel, 1934) comb. n. (fig. 5–7) <i>Prohypotyphla scalaris</i> Hendel, 1934: 149; Vanschuytbroeck, 1963: 41; Steyskal, 1980: 560. M a t e r i a l. <b>Type</b>. Syntypes 2 &amp;female;: <b>Kenya</b>: “Kenya colony / Kabete / 26–27. x. 25 / G. B. Purvis / in house”, “Prohypotyph- / la / scalaris H. / F. Hendel. det.”, “ Coll. Hendel. ” (NHMW; DEI). Non-type. <b>Nigeria</b>: Zaria, Samaru, m. w. trap, 1.06.1966, 1 &amp;female;, 21.05, 22, 24, 26.06.1967, 8 &amp;female;, 11, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26.06.1968, 13 &amp;female;, 10, 31.05, 26.06.1972, 3 &amp;female; (J. Deeming) (USNM); Samaru, mercury vapor lamp, 15–22.06, 13– 20.07.1970, 2 &amp;female; (P. H. Ward) (BMNH). <b>Kenya</b>: Nairobi, 10.1934, 1 &amp;female; (F. W. Edwards), 4.02.1959, 1 &amp;female; (no collector); Karura, 06.1936, 1 &amp;female; (van Someren) (BMNH). D i a g n o s i s. <i>C</i>. <i>scalaris</i> is a species superficially similar to <i>C</i>. <i>ferruginea</i> in its almost uniformly yellowishbody often with reddish-yellow lyrate pattern on scutum and whitish scutellum, hyaline wings, medium-size (wing length 6.5–8.1 mm), and only one pair of ocellar and one pair of postocellar setae present, with pedicel moderately elongate, shorter than flagellomere 1 (the latter parallel-sided, twice as long as wide and apically blunt), lacking outer vertical setae, mid coxae with 2 setae laterally and short setulae medioventrally, short setulose hind coxae, femora not thickened, with long basal and subbasal ventral setae, fore femur without long dorsal setae, mid and hind femora with short and thin apicoventral setae, scutellum short setulose with 4 scutellar setae, wide abdomen, differing from other <i>Campylocera</i> by the wide conical oviscape without setose swellings but with a ventral incision (lateral view). It is closely related to <i>C. unicolor</i> Becker and <i>C. hyalipennis</i> (see discussion above), differing from the second by the blunt flagellomere 1, slightly darker mesonotum and somewhat wider aculeus (fig. 8, <i>3</i>), but the ranges of variability of these characters need additional studies to see if they are separate species. R e m a r k. See discussion on synonymization of <i>Campylocera</i>, <i>Congopyrgota</i> Aczél, 1958, <b>syn</b>. <b>n</b>., and <i>Prohypotyphla</i> Hendel, 1934 <b>syn</b>. <b>n</b>.
description: Published as part of <i>Korneyev, V. A., 2016, New Taxa And Synonymy In The Family Pyrgotidae (Diptera Tephritoidea) Ii Subtribe Adapsiliina And Afrotropical Campylocera, pp. 195-218 in Vestnik Zoologii 50 (3)</i> on page 204, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0024, http://zenodo.org/record/6453684
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