Mycodrosophila neoprojectans Wheeler & Takada 1963
Creators: name: Corrêa, Robson Crepes
name: Gottschalk, Marco Silva
name: Carvalho-Filho, Fernando Da Silva
name: Mendes, Mayara Ferreira
name: Valente, Vera Lúcia Da Silva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Mycodrosophila
Mycodrosophila neoprojectans

description: Mycodrosophila neoprojectans species group, new group
Species included and geographical distribution (Fig. 37). Mycodrosophila neoprojectans Wheeler & Takada, 1963: Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Trinidad, and Ecuador (Wheeler & Takada 1963); Brazil (Amazon Biome; Santa-Brígida et al. 2019). Mycodrosophila pseudoprojectans Wheeler & Takada, 1963: Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia (Wheeler & Takada 1963); Brazil (Amazon Biome; Santa-Brígida et al. 2019). Mycodrosophila hofmanni Junges, Gottschalk, Loreto & Robe, 2016: Brazil (Amazon Biome; Junges et al. 2016). Mycodrosophila amazonica n. sp.: widely distributed in the northern region of Brazil (Amazon Biome). Mycodrosophila martinsae n. sp.: Brazil (Amazon Biome).
Diagnosis. Small flies; tergites II to IV (TII–TIV) largely black but at least partly light; dark spot below the 2nd C break extending to the vein M; dark spots at the apices of R 2+3 and R 4+5 absent (except M. amazonica n. sp. which was slightly darkened apically), ventral lobe of the epandrium tapering apically; phallus projected anteriorly in side view, with basiphallus narrower than distiphallus in lateral view (sense Grimaldi 1987).
Key to the species of the Mycodrosophila neoprojectans species group
1 Tergites V and VI mostly black, except for small light spots on lateral margins; wing tip with faint darking; basiphallus 2x narrower than distiphallus and about 1/2 of the phallus length................................... M. amazonica n. sp.
- Tergites V and/or II to VI with more or less large light area(s); wing tip without darking............................. 2
2 Tergite VI largely black; acrostichal setulae in 10 rows; basiphallus about 1.5x narrower than distiphallus and about 1/2 of the phallus length........................................................................ M. pseudoprojectans
- Tergite VI largely light; acrostichal setulae in 8 rows......................................................... 3
3 Tergite VI without a median dark spot; basiphallus 2x narrower than distiphallus and about 1/3 of the phallus length............................................................................................ M. martinsae n. sp.
- Tergite VI with median dark spot......................................................................... 4
4 Halter with dark knob and light base and stem; basiphallus about 1.5x narrower than distiphallus and about 1/2 of the phallus length; postgonite 2x longer than wider in lateral view.......................................... M. neoprojectans
- Halter fully dark; basiphallus about 1.5x narrower than distiphallus and about 1/3 of the phallus length; postgonite 3x longer than wider and backward curved in lateral view.................................................... M. hofmanni
description: Published as part of Corrêa, Robson Crepes, Gottschalk, Marco Silva, Carvalho-Filho, Fernando Da Silva, Mendes, Mayara Ferreira & Valente, Vera Lúcia Da Silva, 2021, Two new species and a new species group of Mycodrosophila Oldenberg, 1914 (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from the Amazon, pp. 78-90 in Zootaxa 5052 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5566049