Monoclona Mik 1886
Creators: name: Amaral, Edna Maria
name: Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira
name: Falaschi, Rafaela Lopes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Monoclona

description: Key for the males of the Neotropical species of Monoclona
1 Three ocelli......................................................................................... 2
- Two ocelli (Figs. 5–6).................................................................................. 3
2(1) Palpus black. Thorax yellow. Dark brown abdomen with triangular yellow spots at the base of the tergites. Male terminalia yellow............................................................... Monoclona abdominalis Fisher, 1939.
- Palpus yellow. Thorax brown. Dark brown abdomen with yellow bristles. Male terminalia dark brown........................................................................................... Monoclona tapicarei Lane, 1952.
3(1) Tergite 1 black or brown............................................................................... 4
- Tergite 1 yellow or whitish (Fig. 3)....................................................................... 6
4(3) Distal apex of hind tibia black. Tergite 8 without a row of strong bristles on a truncate distal end, gonocoxite with a pair of short median processes with long bristles........................................ Monoclona bicolor (Enderlein, 1910).
- Hind tibia entirely yellow. Male genitalia not as above....................................................... 5
5(4) Abdomen with tergite 1 brown, tergites 2–6 mainly blackish, anterior and posterior borders yellow, tergite 7 entirely yellow. Male genitalia dark brown or black.............. Monoclona digitata Edwards, 1940 (Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 29).
- Abdomen with tergites 1, 2, 6, and 7 entirely dark brown or black, tergites 3–5 black with a yellow basal band. Male terminalia black................................... Monoclona trifasciata Edwards, 1940 (Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 32).
6(3) Abdomen completely black except for yellow tergite 1............................................................................................... Monoclona nigriventris Edwards, 1940 (Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 31).
- Abdomen not entirely black............................................................................ 7
7(6) Head yellow with a dark brown area surrounding ocelli. Abdomen with tergites 1, 6, and 7 yellow, tergites 2–5 yellow at the median region with black spots laterally. Male terminalia entirely dark brown or black........................................................................ Monoclona maculata Edwards, 1933 (Amorim & Oliveira 2013, fig. 30).
- Head entirely yellow (Figs. 5–6). Abdomen with tergite 1 whitish, tergites 2–5 shining dark-brown with a yellow slender transverse band along posterior margin, tergite 6 yellow with brown blurred rounded marks mesally, tergite 7 yellow (Figs. 3–4). Male terminalia yellow basally and brown distally (Figs. 7–12)..................... Monoclona carambeiensis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Amaral, Edna Maria, Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira & Falaschi, Rafaela Lopes, 2022, An unknown world in the Neotropical region: a complete life cycle of a new species of Monoclona Mik, 1886 (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae), pp. 107-130 in Zootaxa 5091 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5091.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5840555