Rhinotora travassosi 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 travassosi

description: Rhinotora travassosi Lopes
(Figs 6A–F, 10)
Rhinotora travassosi Lopes, 1934: 517. Holotype ♂, MNRJ. Type-locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Capital, Cantareira. Distr.— Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paulo). Refs—Lopes 1935: 20, pl. 1, fig. 1 (wing); 1936: 106, figs 1–2, 5–6 (male genitalia, crossveins of cell r1); Papavero 1967: 2 (catalogue); Almeida & Ale-Rocha 2011: 54 (male genitalia).
Diagnosis. Rhinotora travassosi can be identified by the distinct brown pruinose triangle on scutellum, along with a dark spot surrounding the supernumerary crossvein of cell r2+3, covering part of cell r4+5. This is the only species with two independent, divergent, supernumerary crossveins arising from the middle of R2+3. Rhinotora travassosi shares with lopesi, R. paschoali sp. nov., and R. spiloptera, the complex pattern of brown and golden pruinose stripes and spots on scutum. Moreover, Rhinotora travassosi resemble most Rhinotora species regarding the presence of anterior orbital seta, the male fore femur about three times longer than wide, and the strong ventral setae on mid and hind femora.
Redescription. Head (Figs 6A–C). Yellow to brown, silvery to golden pruinose. Anterior reclinate orbital seta about as long as one fourth of posterior seta. Mouthparts brown, palpus yellow. Thorax (Figs 6A–B). Scutum dark brown with paler areas, golden setulose, with complex pattern of brown and golden pruinose stripes and spots; acrostichal paired stripes brown, medially connected; posteromedial paired spots parallel, posteriorly connected. Scutellum triangular with apical and lateral spiniform protuberances; base of apical seta protuberant; dark brown, pruinescence golden on lateral margin with distinct dorsal brown pruinose triangle; lateral spines and apex shiny. Wing (Fig. 6D). Medial vein ratio: 0.47. Veins mostly dark brown with white and yellow areas; C yellow between sc break and apex, with base and apex brown. Membrane hyaline with dark spots, including a darker one surrounding the supernumerary crossvein of cell r2 2+3, covering part of cell r4+5. Cell r1 with seven to nine simple supernumerary crossveins, some of them occasionally branched. Cell r2+3 with two divergent, sometimes connected, supernumerary crossvein arising from the middle of R2+3. Legs (Fig. 6A). Fore femur on male about three times longer than wide (slightly thinner on female). Distal third of mid femur with two rows of short strong ventral setae. Distal third of hind femur with anteroventral row of strong setae. Mid tibia with one distinct ventroapical seta. Abdomen. Generally brown in color, brown setulose. Protandrium (Fig. 6E). Male sternite 5 medially with an acute posterior projection. Sternite 6 fused with sternite 5. Male genitalia (Fig. 6F). Cerci fused to each other, with discrete medial tubercle at apex. Surstylus single lobed, rectangular in lateral view, apex slightly concave. Phallus robust, rotated to left, with membranous apex.
Distribution (Fig. 10). Brazil (Minas Gerais, Paraná, São Paulo).
Examined non-type material. BRAZIL. Paraná: Piraquara, Mananciais da Serra, 20.viii.2008, P. Grossi & J. Calhau colls (1Ƌ, INPA); same data, 08.x.2008 (2Ƌ, 2♀, INPA); same data, 24.x.2008 (5Ƌ, 3 INPA); same data, 04.xi.2008 (2Ƌ, 2♀, INPA).
Remarks. Rhinotora travassosi is recorded for the first time from Paraná State.
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 527-530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/259175