Fannia awa Grisales & De Carvalho 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Grisales, Diana
name: De Carvalho, Claudio J. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Fanniidae
Fannia
Fannia awa

description: Fannia awa sp. nov.
(1A, 2A–C, 5A, 7A, 8A)
Diagnosis. Fore tarsus with tarsomeres 3–5 slightly flattened; first mid tarsomere with strong basal spine on ventral surface; hind coxa bare.
Description. Holotype male (Fig. 1A)
Head: eye densely setulose. Frontal vitta velvety black, pollinose. 18 fr. 1 pair of oc, proclinate and developed, surrounded by 5 less developed setulae. Fronto–orbital plate black, greyish pollinose. Parafacial bare, wide ventrally, greyish pollinose. Fronto–genal suture with brownish hairs and protruding anteriorly. Gena brownish pollinose and setulose. Scape black, 2 short dorsal setae reaching pedicel. Pedicel black pollinose, dorsal setae developed, one of this stronger. Postpedicel black, golden pilose, 2.5 times the length of pedicel. Arista black, with short pubescence, rays shorter than width of base of arista. Palpus black, filiform.
Thorax: black; scutum without vittae. Acr without a pattern, irregular rows. Dc 2:3. Pprn 2, developed, setulose area. Pra 2, seta closest to suture longest. Proepimeron setulose. Katespisternum setulose on ventral surface.
Wing: with superior third, between C vein and superior half of R 2+3 vein darkened. Calypter brownish with margin darkened. Haltere dark brown.
Legs: black with tarsi black and pulvilli brownish. Fore femur setulose on posterior surface with 1 row of long pv and d; ventral surface bare. Fore tibia with 1 strong pre–apical d. Fore tarsomeres 3–5 slightly flattened (Fig. 2A). Mid femur slightly constricted on pre–apical ventral surface; 1 row of short ad; 1 row of strong av, irregular length; 1 row of strong pv and 1 row of p. Mid tibia on ventral surface slightly constricted on basal half area, densely setulose on apical half area; 1 developed pre–apical ad; 1 developed median a; 2 developed apical av and 1 v; 2 apical strong pv; 1 median p and 1 apical p. First mid tarsomere with strong basal spine on ventral surface (Fig. 2B). Hind coxa bare on posterior margin. Hind femur on ventral surface without protuberance (Fig. 2C); 1 row of ad, 4 stronger setae running towards dorsal surface (Fig. 2C); 1 row of strong av, 2 longer and strong setae on apical half; posterior surface with a small tuft of setae on apical half. Hind tibia with 1 developed median d and 1 pre–apical; 1 long and developed sub–median ad; 2 median av, 1 apical (Fig. 2C).
Abdomen: elongate, brownish with long and developed setae. Sternite 1 densely setulose. Sternite 5 (Fig. 5A). Terminalia (Fig. 6A): epandrium wider than long, with strong setae on basal half; cercal plate elongate and pointed apically, with short weak setae along the plate, fused to mid–basal half; surstylus slightly articulated with epandrium, wide on base and curved apically, shaped as a comma in frontal and lateral views; bacilliform process spiral and simple.
Female: unknown.
Biology. Label information indicates that this species was found in decomposing matter. This species occurs in the Páramos in the Central Cordillera in Colombia. Nothing else is known about its habits or biology.
Etymology. Name in apposition. The species epithet refers to the Awá indigenous people, that inhabit the regions of northern Ecuador (provinces of Carchi and Sucumbios) and southern Colombia (particularly the departments of Nariño and Putumayo).
Type material. Holotype male (CEUA). COLOMBIA: Antioquia. San José de la montaña. El Congo /10– 15\set\2011/ 3000m./ L. Rios /VSR pez. Trampa 5. Paratypes. COLOMBIA. Antioquia: San José de la montaña. El Congo /10–15\set\2011/ 3000m./ L. Rios /T. VSR pez. Bosque laguna (1 male, CEUA. Voucher code DG017); Caldas: Colombia, Manizales. Reserva Rio/Blanco. 2995m. VSR pescado/ Abril \2005/ Seminario de entomologia/ CEUA (1 male, CEUA).
The holotype is not completely in good condition because it was used to extract DNA. It was not macerated, but rather immersed in Proteinase K. The specimen has 1 mid leg, 2 posterior legs and the rest of the legs glued to a paper triangle. The code of the voucher is DG017.
Distribution. Colombia: departments of Antioquia and Caldas (Central Cordillera, Andean region) (Fig. 8A).
description: Published as part of Grisales, Diana & De Carvalho, Claudio J. B., 2019, Highland biodiversity of Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera): fourteen new species from the Andes and Central America, pp. 330-360 in Zootaxa 4551 (3) on pages 335-336, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2622947