Rhinotora diversipennis Lopes
Creators: name: Calhau, Julia
name: Coelho, Lívia Aguiar
name: Kawada, Ricardo
name: Lima, Felipe Varussa De Oliveira
name: Guillermo-Ferreira, Rhainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Heleomyzidae
Rhinotora
Rhinotora diversipennis

description: Rhinotora diversipennis Lopes
(Figs 1 A–F, 10)
Rhinotora diversipennis Lopes, 1936: 107. Holotype Ƌ, MNRJ. Type-locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Capital, Cantareira. Distr.— Brazil (São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul). Refs – Lopes 1936: figs 3–4, 7–9 (male genitalia, crossveins of cell r1, wing); Papavero 1967: 2 (catalogue); Almeida & Ale-Rocha 2011: 54 (male genitalia).
Diagnosis. Rhinotora diversipennis, along with R. travassosi, are the only two species having two independent supernumerary crossveins arising from the middle of R2+3. In R. diversipennis, however, these crossveins are parallel (sometimes connected posteriorly) and the spot around them are not distinctly darker than the remaining wing spots. In addition, this species differs from R. travassosi by the lack of anterior orbital seta (feature also observed in R. lopesi). As in most Rhinotora species, the male fore femur is about three times longer than wide (slightly narrower on female).
Redescription. Head (Figs 1 A–C). Yellow to brown, silvery to golden pruinose. Anterior reclinate orbital seta absent. Mouthparts brown, clypeus and palpus yellowish.
Thorax (Fig. 1 B). Scutum yellowish to reddish brown, golden setulose, golden pruinose. Scutellum triangular with apical and lateral spiniform protuberances; base of apical seta protuberant; yellowish brown, golden pruinose, apex and protuberances shiny. Wing (Fig. 1 D). Medial vein ratio: 0.46. Veins mostly dark brown with white and yellow areas; C mostly yellow, dark brown on distal two thirds of cell c. Membrane hyaline with dark spots. Cell r1 with seven to eight simple supernumerary crossveins. Cell r2+3 with two parallel, often posteriorly connected supernumerary crossveins arising from the middle of R2+3. Legs (Fig. 1 A). Male fore femur about three times longer than wide (slightly narrower on female). Distal third of mid femur with short strong anteroventral setae. Distal third of hind femur with anteroventral row of strong setae. Mid tibia with two or three distinct ventroapical setae. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, sternites yellowish brown; yellow setulose. Protandrium (Fig. 1 E). Sternite 5 evenly sclerotized. Sternites 6–8 fused, encircling the abdomen without a break. Male genitalia (Fig. 1 F). Cerci fused to each other, with shallow indentation on distal margin. Surstylus single lobed, hook shaped in ventral view, inner surface setulose. Phallus with membranous, spherical apex.
Distribution (Fig. 10). Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo).
Examined non-type material. BRAZIL. Rio Grande do Sul: São Francisco de Paula—PROMATA, 14– 18.xii.2009, P. Grossi col. (1Ƌ, INPA). São Paulo: Salesópolis, Boracea, 850m, xii, 1949, L. Travassos Fo., E. Rab., det. J.C. Almeida, compared with holotype (1Ƌ MZUSP).
description: Published as part of Calhau, Julia, Coelho, Lívia Aguiar, Kawada, Ricardo, Lima, Felipe Varussa De Oliveira & Guillermo-Ferreira, Rhainer, 2016, Review of Rhinotora (Diptera, Heleomyzidae) with description of a new species and key to all known heleomyzid species from Brazil, pp. 513-533 in Zootaxa 4138 (3) on pages 517-518, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/259175