Afropyrgota copelandi V. Korneyev 2015, sp. n.
Creators: name: Korneyev, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pyrgotidae
Afropyrgota
Afropyrgota copelandi

description: <i>Afropyrgota copelandi</i> V. Korneyev, sp. n. (fig. 1, 2) M a t e r i a l. <b>Type.</b> Holotype &amp;female;: <b>Kenya:</b> Rift Valley, Prov. Oloitokitok, 1853 m, 2.94456° S, 37.50714° E, Malaise trap, edge of indigenous forest, 11– 25.11.2011 (R. Copeland) (NMKE). Paratypes 3 &amp;female;: same label as in the holotype, 25.11– 9.12.2011 (NMKE; SIZK). D i a g n o s i s. This species can be recognized from the combination of face without carina; parafacialium entirely shining yellow; frontal vitta black; ocellar setae short, but present; palp yellow, cigar-like, 4 times as long as wide, short setulose apically; yellow, sparsely black setulose scutum; scutellum with one pair of moderately long black apical setae; wing short, 6.0– 6.4 mm long, uniformly grayish or hyaline, pale yellow along anterior margin; mid femur with very large cuneiform femoral organ almost entirely covering its apical half; abdominal sternites with moderately long black setae; oviscape entirely yellow, slightly shorter than syntergite 1+2 or combined length of tergites 3–6. D e s c r i p t i o n. Head (figs 1, <i>2, 3</i>) yellow, frontal vitta dark brown to black, except its posterior margin allied to vertex, 1.5–1.6 times as long as wide in posterior half; parafacial 1.5 times as wide as flagellomere 1; eye 2 times as high as wide, 1.5 times as wide as parafacial and 2.6 times as high as gena. Face concave, with faint medial suture, but without carina. Occiput entirely yellow. First flagellomere entirely reddish yellow, 2.7 times as long as wide, 1.5 times as long as pedicel and 2.3 times as long as scape. Arista entirely reddish yellow, 2-segmented. Scape 2 times as long as wide. Palp yellow, cigar-like, 4 times as long as wide, and as long as first flagellomere. Labellum very large, almost as long as eye height. Lateral vertical setae (vte) indistinguishable from postoculars or absent; medial vertical setae (vti) as long as pedicel and 1.8 times as long as postocellar, ocellar and orbital setae and 2–3 times as long as mesofrontal setulae (above lunule). Thorax yellow to brownish yellow, without dark pattern. Prosternum saddle-like, short setulose. Postpronotal lobe with 4–6 setulae and one long seta; proepisternum with 7–9 setae. Scutum 1.1 times as long as wide, subshining yellow with faint brown areas, sparsely black setulose, with white microtrichia not obscuring underlying cuticle; 2 notopleural, 1 supra-alar, 1 intra-alar, 1 postalar, 2–3 postsutural dorsocentral, and 0 acrostichal setae. Scutellum yellow, whitish microtrichose, with one pair of apical setae 2 times as long as scutellum, but without setulae (fig. 1, <i>5</i>). Anepisternum yellow, with dark yellow or brownish anterior part; posterior part with 2–3 long setae and 7–9 irregular long setulae; anepimeron with 2 long setae and 5–6 irregular long setulae; katepisternum with 1–3 long setae and 5–7 thinner and slightly shorter setulae posterodorsally. Katatergite, anatergite and mediotergite brownish yellow, subshining, sparsely whitish microtrichose. Wing (fig. 1, <i>4</i>) entirely hyaline or pale yellowish along anterior margin, covered with greyish microtrichia. Vein R 4+5 bare. Wing length 11.5–12.5 mm. Lower calypter narrow, without cilia; upper calypter with short black fringe basally and 7–8 black cilia half as long as calypter width. Halter creamy white. Legs (fig. 1, <i>6–8</i>) entirely yellow, black setulose and setose. Coxae moderately long and sparsely setose and setulose, unmodified. Fore femur (fig. 1, <i>6</i>) moderately narrow, long setose on posterior surface. Mid femur (fig. 1, <i>7</i>) on anterior surface setose in basal onequarter and with very large cuneiform femoral organ almost entirely covering its apical half. Hind femur narrow, short setulose without long setae (except basiventral seta). Abdomen (fig. 1, <i>9, 10</i>) narrow, cylindrical, almost twice as long as thorax, with syntergite 1+2 long, 1.1 times as long as tergites 3–6 combined. Synsternite 1+2 long Y-shaped (fig. 9, <i>1</i>). Sternites 3–6 subquadrate, with 2–3 black setae and 7–9 setulae at posterolateral corners. Female genitalia. Oviscape entirely orange, short and sparsely black setulose, uncompressed, almost as high as wide and as long as tergites 3–6 combined, with apex short and slightly bent ventrally, bearing neither hooks, nor long setulae (fig. 2, <i>1</i>). Dorsal (dorsomedial) and latero-ventral lobes very short, with short yellow setae (fig. 2, <i>2</i>). Eversible membrane without sclerotized lobes or raspers. Aculeus as on fig. 2, <i>3</i>. Ventral receptacle (fig. 2, <i>4</i>) as in the other Pyrgotinae. Spermatheca oval (fig. 2, <i>5</i>). Male unknown.
description: Published as part of <i>Korneyev, V. A., 2015, Pyrgotid Flies Assigned To Apyrgota. Iii. Species Of Afropyrgota Gen. N. And Tylotrypes (Diptera, Pyrgotidae), pp. 25-40 in Vestnik Zoologii 49 (1)</i> on pages 27-29, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2015-0003, http://zenodo.org/record/6404027