Agenamyia timida de Carvalho, Wolff & Fogaca 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De
name: Wolff, Marta
name: Haseyama, Kirstern Lica Follmann
name: Fogaça, João Manuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Muscidae
Agenamyia
Agenamyia timida

description: Agenamyia timida de Carvalho, Wolff & Fogaça sp. nov.
ZooBank: https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/6c903ed7-f6b5-4398-9427-0045ba8702b9
(Figs. 11A–C, 12A–F, 13C, and 14A, F)
Diagnosis. This tiny species is similar to Agenamyia exotica in general appearance but differs in the presence of calypteres, abdomen, and yellowish tarsi.
Measurements: Body length = 3.3 mm. Wing length = 2.7 mm.
Description. Male. Head. Light brown fronto-orbital plate, with five setulae, three stronger. Light brown frontal vita. Light brown parafacial and gena. Short, yellowish, filiform palpus with a slightly enlarged tip. Entirely light brown antennae.
Thorax. Mesonotum dark brown and without stripes. Dorsocentral 1+3, first postsutural smaller than the others. Two postsutural intra-alar, the posterior weaker. Katepisternals 1+1+1 form an equilateral triangle, anterior seta smaller than the remaining seta.
Wings (Fig. 13C). Clear without spots. Yellowish calypteres. Lower calypter twice as long as the upper calypter.
Legs. Light yellowish with a slightly black tibia. Hind femur with three av setae in apical half.
Abdomen yellowish, mostly 1–3 tergites (Fig. 11C).
Terminalia (Figs. 12A–F). Cercus divided into two parts, longer than wide, with a divergent apex: three long setae at the base and four setulae in the middle (Figs. 12B–C). Surstylus shorter than cercus (Fig. 12B). Hypandrium tubular (Fig. 12D). The phallapodeme has the same diameter across its entire extension and was slightly curved at its apex (Figs. 12D–F). Large pregonite, equal in length to postgonite. Epiphallus is equal in length to the postgonite. Reduced distiphallus, slightly larger than pregonite, with membranous apex (Figs. 12D–F).
Female. Unknown.
Material examined. Holotype ♁. “CO [Colombia] 05. Sopetrán / Quebrada La Jimenéz, 780 msnm [altitude] / T. [trampa=trap] Emergencia / Ago. [August] 3-1983, M. Wolff / CEUA, 38264 [handwriting]”; “ Holotype [red label]”; Agenamyia / timida / Carvalho J. B. de Carvalho det. 2023 [handwriting]”.
Etymology. The Latin epithet timida refers to a timid fly, as a small fly.
Distribution. Colombia, Antioquia.
Biology. The larvae are aquatic. Adult specimens were collected from Sopetrán, at an altitude of 780 m in a tropical dry forest (bs-T) (Holdridge 1967).
Remarks. The holotype is in good condition. The terminalia was dissected and placed in a microvial attached to a pin. The left hind leg is broken but is glued to the specimen. Pérez and de Carvalho (2016: 25) indicated this species as the morphospecies Agenamyia sp. 4.
description: Published as part of Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, Wolff, Marta, Haseyama, Kirstern Lica Follmann & Fogaça, João Manuel, 2023, Review of the endemic Neotropical genus Agenamyia Albuquerque (Diptera: Muscidae) with the description of new species from South America, pp. 532-550 in Zootaxa 5346 (5) on pages 545-546, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5346.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8390725