Fannia chibcha Grisales, Wolff & De, 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Grisales, Diana
name: Wolff, Marta
name: De, Claudio J. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Fanniidae
Fannia
Fannia chibcha

description: Fannia chibcha sp. nov.
(Figs. 2, 21, 39, 57, 75, 93, 111, 132)
Diagnosis. these characters apply only to the male sex. Hind femur strongly curved, ventral surface with pronounced pre-apical protuberance and with conspicuous tuft of developed v with hooked apices, 1 row of p with hooked apices on basal half; hind tibia with 1 row of 9–13 strong a on apical half, 2–3 median and 1 apical av.
Description. Holotype male: body length: 4.6 mm; wing length: 4 mm.
Head: eye with sparse setulae. Frontal vitta black, black to golden pollinose. Interocular space reduced, 0.06 mm. fr 18, posterior most pair reclinate. Ocellar triangle black, golden pollinose; oc proclinate and developed, 4 less developed setulae on the ocellar area. Poc converging. Fronto-orbital plate and parafacial black, golden pollinose, pollinosity denser on parafacial and area anterior to fronto-orbital plate. Parafacial with short setae on anterior third.Gena dark grey, golden pollinose. Lunule black.Scape black, densely golden pollinose, one seta reaching the pedicel. Pedicel black, weakly golden pollinose; 2 strong dorsal setae, outer seta more developed. Postpedicel golden pollinose, 2.5 times the length of pedicel. Arista dark brown and pubescent. Palpus dark brown and filiform.
Thorax: dark-grey; scutum and scutellum black to dark brown. Acr 3:3, not arranged in rows. Dc 2:3, posterior most postsutural pair developed. Pprn 4, 2 developed and 2 weak. Pra 2, short and strong. Pro-epimeron setulose. Subapical scutellar setae 1 pair. Discal scutellar setae 1 pair.
Wing: yellowish. Calypters brown. Haltere yellowish with base brown.
Legs: dark brown with pulvilli yellowish. Fore femur setulose on basal half of anterior surface, 1 row of short a of the same length on apical half; 1 row of short av and 4 long basal; 1 row of long pv, longer at apex; 2 long p, a few with curved apices; 1 row of pd that increase in length apically, going onto dorsal surface. Fore tibia with 1 preapical d; 1 apical v; 1 row of 5 short av on apical half. Fore tarsus with a set of short, strong v on first tarsomere and with 1–2 thin setae. Mid femur constricted on pre-apical ventral surface; 1 row of long ad; 1 row of short and close av that increase in length apically, and become shorter again at apex; 1 row of short v on apical half; 1 row of short pv, forming a weak ctenidium apically; 1 row of long pd with hooked apices, on apical half more developed, with straight apices. Mid tibia weakly constricted on basal ventral surface; 1 pre-apical ad; 1 a on edge of apical third and 2 apical, one long and one short; 1 apical av; 2 strong apical v, one long and one short; 1 median p and 2 apical. Hind coxa with 4 setae on posterior margin. Hind femur strongly curved (Figs. 2, 39); ventral surface with pre-apical conspicuous protuberance; conspicuous tuft of av, v and pv with hooked apices (Figs. 21, 39); 1 row of long ad going towards dorsal surface; ventral surface bare on basal half; 1 row of pv on basal half; 1 row of p with hooked apices on basal half (Fig. 39). Hind tibia with 1 median d and 1 developed pre-apical d; 1 row of 9–13 strong a on apical half, seta on edge of apical third larger, 1 apical a (Fig. 21); 2–3 median av and 1 apical; 2 apical v.
Abdomen: trimaculate. Syntergite 1+2 on basal lateral area with short setae and on apical area setulose with developed setae. Sternite 1 bare. Sternite 5 as in Fig. 57. Terminalia (Figs. 75, 93): epandrium wider than long, with sparse, long and weak setae; cercal plate shaped as a V and bearing long setae on the outer margins; surstylus strongly fused with epandrium and without visible articulation, wide and straight, with short inner setae, apically pointed, on apical lateral half with projections or processes bearing short setae; bacilliform process absent; hypandrium and associated structures as in Fig. 111
Variation: male: 16–18 fr, fronto-orbital plate and parafacial yellowish or black pollinose, gena yellowish pollinose, scutellum dark brown, 1 weak pprn, wing brownish, fore femur with a irregular in length on apical half, fore tibia with 1 row of 4 short ad on apical half, mid tibia with 1 apical a, hind coxa with 2–4 setae on posterior margin, hind tibia with 1 row of 9–11 strong a.
Female: similar to male except: in general with less developed setae; body length: 4 mm; wing: 3.8 mm. Dichoptic. Frontal vitta velvety black; interocular space 0.5 mm; 8–10 fr. Upper and lower orb present, both reclinate. 1 row of short fro, not uniform. Fronto-orbital plate shiny black, not pollinose. Parafacial greyish pollinose up to insertion of arista, short setae on basal third, subequal in length to and on the same alignment as fro setulae. Pedicel with 1 short seta; postpedicel 3 times the length of pedicel. Scutum copper; intra-alar and supraalar postsutural areas and lateral margin of scutellum black. Calypters yellowish; haltere whitish with base yellowish. Legs with tibiae on apical area orange. Fore femur with 1 row of short pv that increase in length slightly towards the apex; 1 row of subequal pd. Fore tibia without av. Mid femur with 1 row of short av that decrease in length on apical half; 1 row of short pv that decrease in length slightly towards the apex. Mid tibia without basal ventral constriction; 1 long apical v; 2 short p on edge of apical third. Hind femur with slight ventral apical constriction, flattened on anterior and posterior surfaces; 1 row of short ad increase in length slightly on apical half; av developed and spaced on apical half; p short on basal half; ventral surface naked. Hind tibia with median 1 av. Abdomen not trimaculate, copper-brown; tergite 4 with 1 pair of median lateral setae. Terminalia (Fig. 132): cercus slightly longer than hypoproct, with long setae, and sinuous at apex; hypoproct round, with setae mainly on apical region and shorter than cercal setae; sternite 8 reduced to separated plates and with long, developed and sinuous setae; sternite 7 wider than long and with setae on apical half, being longer than the apical most setae; sternite 6 larger than sternite 7 and with apical setae unordered; 2 semicircular spermathecae apically flattened.
Biology. according to collecting data Fannia chibcha sp. nov. is widely distributed, being found in forests from medium altitudes (1050 m) up to high and cold ridges (2800 m). The species was collected mainly from pig carcasses, and can be considered of forensic relevance in the region.
Comments. the male of Fannia chibcha sp. nov. is similar to male of F. parafemoralis Araujo and Couri, 1996, but F. c h i b c h a can be easily diagnosed by the strongly curved hind femur, the facial chaetotaxy, av and pv strongly developed on apical half.
The male of Fannia chibcha is similar to male of F. yunguensis Quiroga & Domínguez, 2010, but differs from it in the number of fro setae (18 pairs), sparse setulae on eyes, yellowish wing, hind coxa with 4 setae on posterior margin, hind tibia with 1 row of 9–13 a on apical half, abdomen trimaculate, and female sternite 8 (separate plates) with more developed and sinuous setae. Fannia chibcha sp. nov. belongs to the sub-group pusio of the canicularis group (Albuquerque et al. 1981; Couri 2005).
Etymology. Name in apposition. The species epithet refers to the pre-Colombian indigenous Chibcha, who inhabited the high grounds of the cundiboyacense highlands in Colombia, type-locality of the species.
Type material. Holotype male (ICN).CO [Colombia]. Cundinamarca. Mosquera\ ICA. 2543 m. Sobre cerdo muerto\ Octubre 2001 \ M. Ospina y G. Camacho\ ICN. Paratypes: CO [Colombia]. Cundinamarca. Mosquera\ ICA. 2543 m. Sobre cerdo [pig] muerto\ Octubre 2001 \M. Ospina y G. Camacho\ ICN (7 male, 30 females, ICN; 1 male, 1 female DZUP); CO33 [Colombia, Cundinamarca]. Cundinamarca\ Mpio. [Município] Mosquera\ Fca. [Finca] \ Tibaitata\ Altura 2543 msnm\ Jama. Cerdo-Forense [pig-forensics] \ 29 Junio [written by hand] 0 1 \ CEUA 3146\ Ospina and Camacho (1 male, CEUA); idem\ 30 junio [written by hand] 01\ CEUA 3139\ Ospina and Camacho (1 female, CEUA); CO33 [Colombia, Cundinamarca]. Cundinamarca\ Mpio. [Município] Mosquera\ Fca [Finca] \ Tibaitata\ Altura 2543 msnm\ Jama.Cerdo-Forense [pig-forensics] \ 29 Junio [written by hand] 0 1 \ CEUA 3147\ Ospina and Camacho (1 male, CEUA); CO36 [Colombia, Boyacá].Tunja\ Univ. Ped.y Tec. [Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica] \ 2690 msnm\ Jama\ Cerdo [pig]\ 11 [written by hand] May – 0 2. H [Hora] \ UPTC F 9649\Yusseff and Daza (1 male, CEUA); CO05 [Colombia, Antioquia] \ Sn. Pedro\ Vda (Vereda) Cerezales\ 2800 msnm\ Manual Cerdo [pig]\ 25.VI.01 [written by hand] \ 15:30 – 16:30 [written by hand] \ V –Perez (2 male, CEUA); “idem\ 11:00–11:30\ 19.VI.01 \ idem (1 male, CEUA); CO [Colombia]. Ant. [Antioquia]. Amalfi. Porce \ Hacienda Normandia. Bosque\ N 6˚44’52– W 75˚05’6 \ 1050 m Alt. [Altitude]. V.S.R (pescado) [Van Someren- Rydon trap, fish bait] \ 25 Oct. 1998 \ P. Duque (1 male, CEUA). The holotype is in excellent condition and has all structures.
Distribution. Colombia: departaments of Cundinamarca, Boyacá (Andean region, Eastern Cordillera) and Antioquia (Andean region, Central Cordillera).
description: Published as part of Grisales, Diana, Wolff, Marta & De, Claudio J. B., 2012, Neotropical Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera): new species of Fannia from Colombia, pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 3591 on pages 7-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213946