Quichuana personata Ricarte & Marcos-García & Hancock & Rotheray 2012, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Ricarte, Antonio
name: Marcos-García, M. Ángeles
name: Hancock, E. G.
name: Rotheray, Graham E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Quichuana
Quichuana personata

description: QUICHUANA PERSONATA RICARTE & MARCOS- GARCÍA SP. NOV.   
FIGURE 54  
 Description   
Female (holotype)  
 Head: Ocellar triangle with black hairs; black frons, with whitish hairs and, posteriorly, a few black hairs; frons with white pollinosity medially; antenna black except for the red arista; basoflagellomere elongate (Fig. 54); bf = 2; face with a central shiny stripe and two lateral shiny stripes outlined with white pollinosity; gena with a thinly pollinose stripe, extending from the eye margin to the mouth edge; occiput white pollinose next to the eye margins, white haired and with a line of long black hairs on the upper third.   
 Thorax: Black scutum, covered with sparse greyish pollinosity and two medial approximated stripes of denser pollinosity extending as far as three-quarters of the scutum; scutum white haired in front of the TS and mainly with short black hairs behind; area above the wings and anterior area of the PC black haired; pleuron black; PAPT posterodorsally, NP, and PC with sparse groups (non-tufted) of long pale hairs; scutellum shiny, copper, white haired, and with a few black hairs; femora black, except for a short reddish section at the apex; tibiae black with brownish markings and a short reddish section at the base; tarsi black dorsally, except for the brownish basotarsomere; all legs mainly pale haired, with a few black hairs on some areas of femora, tibiae, and tarsi; wings extensively microtrichose; anterior third of the wing lightly brown pigmented; calypteres white except for the black margins and the marginal hairs.   
 Abdomen: Black; tergum I with a moustache arrangement of white sparse hairs; tergum II extensively covered with white hairs and scattered black hairs at the posterior margin; tergum III extensively black haired, only with white hairs on a narrow band of the anterior margin; terga IV–V extensively white haired, but with scattered black hairs intermixed.   
Male  
Unknown.  
 Etymology   
 The epithet ‘ personata ’ means ‘masked’, and refers to the facial ornamentation, reminiscent of a mask, with alternate pollinose and shiny stripes.   
 Material examined (CEUA)   
 Holotype: 1f with puparium, Venezuela, Edo Miranda, San Antonio de los Altos, IVIC, 1650 m, larva 2.ii.2007, adult 9.ii.2007, leg. CPB.   
 Paratype: VENEZUELA: 1f with puparium, Edo Miranda, San Antonio de los Altos, IVIC, 1650 m, larva 2.ii.2007, adult 12.ii.2007, leg. CPB.   
 Range   
Venezuela.  
 Taxonomic notes   
 Medium size species (10.2 mm) with moderately broad abdomen. To separate Q. personata sp. nov. from the similar Q. cestus, see ‘Taxonomic notes’ under this species.
description: Published as part of Ricarte, Antonio, Marcos-García, M. Ángeles, Hancock, E. G. & Rotheray, Graham E., 2012, Revision of the New World genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 (Diptera: Syrphidae), including descriptions of 24 new species, pp. 72-131 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 166 (1) on pages 105-106, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00842.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5408533