Semicephalops inpaganus Rafael 1990
Creators: name: Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany
name: Marques, Dayse Willkenia A.
name: Rafael, José Albertino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Semicephalops
Semicephalops inpaganus

description: Semicephalops inpaganus Rafael, 1990
Figs 94–106, 108
Pipunculus (Pipunculus) paganus Hardy, 1965b: 20, figs 4 a–e (partim).
Cephalops inpaganus Rafael, 1990: 362, figs 17–24, 116; De Meyer, 1992: 98.
Cephalops (Semicephalops) inpaganus De Meyer, 1994: 14; De Meyer, 1996: 36; Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012: 16.
Diagnosis. Pedicel brown to black, postpedicel yellow; coxae brown to black, wing brown infuscated, anal lobe narrower basally, abdomen with ground color dark brown, shiny, tergite 1 sparsely gray pruinose, tergite 2 brown to black pruinose basally; surstyli asymmetrical, both surstyli with a lobe on inner margin; apex of phallic guide short, with acute tip and distinct submedian lobe dorsally, backwards directed; phallus unbranched, with leaf-shaped membranous projections (Fig. 105).
Intraspecific variability. Rafael (1990) provided a complete description and illustrations of the Brazilian holotype; however, we found variations in the Colombian material. Because of this, we provide a comparison of the variations between the Colombian and Brazilian specimens (between parenthesis, when comparable). MALE. Length with 2.3 mm (versus 3.1 mm in the holotype); postcranium gray pruinose laterally and brown pruinose dorsally (Figs 94–95); pedicel brown (Fig. 96) (versus pedicel black); scutum and scutellum brown (Figs 95, 97) (versus scutum and scutellum black); wing with membrane slightly brown infuscate (Fig. 98); coxae brown (Fig. 94) (versus coxae black); trochanters light brown (Fig. 94) (versus trochanters yellow); femora yellow, except in proximal third, light yellow, and short setae ventrally (Figs 94–95) (versus femora entirely yellow, and without setae ventrally); tibiae light brown, with bases and apices light yellow, with a row of long and fine yellow setae posterolaterally (Fig. 94); tergites 3–5 dark brown, shiny, with inconspicuous scattered setae (Figs 94–95, 99) (versus tergites 3–4 with narrow posterior band dark brown to black pruinose); tergites and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 100. Surstyli asymmetrical, shorter than epandrium, completely setose, both surstyli with a lobe on inner margin, left surstylus slightly shorter and thin (Fig. 101); both surstyli with tips acute and downward directed when seen in lateral view (Figs 102–103); gonopods subsymmetrical, right gonopod slightly thinner than left (Fig. 104); apex of phallic guide short, with acute tip and distinct submedian lobe dorsally, backwards directed (Fig. 105); ejaculatory apodeme pinshaped, with margins somewhat straight (Fig. 106); phallus unbranched, with leaf-shaped membranous projections (Fig. 105).
Examined material. COLOMBIA, Antioquia, Envigado, separador vial sector bodegas Éxito-Pirelli, Zona industrial, Jama, 6,16913N / 75,60201W, 15.ago[viii]–01.sep[ix].2017, J. Torres-Toro, A.L Montoya (1 ♂ CEUA – 100905) (photographed specimen).
Geographical distribution. Brazil; Colombia (Antioquia) (new record) (Fig. 108).
Habitat. The specimens were collected in urban areas at Envigado, in the department of Antioquia, in the Andean region of Colombia.
description: Published as part of Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Marques, Dayse Willkenia A. & Rafael, José Albertino, 2022, Cephalops Fallén and Semicephalops De Meyer (Diptera: Pipunculidae) of Colombia, with description of five new species and an updated key to males of the Neotropical species, pp. 201-226 in Zootaxa 5141 (3) on pages 218-220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6592647