Antrops cotopaxi KITS & MARSHALL 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: KITS, JOEL H.
name: MARSHALL, STEPHEN A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Antrops
Antrops cotopaxi

description: Antrops cotopaxi sp. nov.   
(Figs. 92–96, 214)  
 Description. Male postabdomen: Sternite 5 as described for the species group. Surstylus with medial ridge broad, flat, ventral tooth broad at base, narrow distally, anteroventral corner narrowly rounded (Fig. 93). Pregonite indistinct, fully fused with postgonite. Postgonite with lobes barely separated, anterior lobe quadrate, posterior lobe pointed, long. Basiphallus narrow, with long epiphallus and preepiphallus. Distiphallus with broad, setose dorsal knob (Fig. 92).   
Female postabdomen: Tergites 6–7 and sternites 6–7 wider than long, moderately sclerotized, covered with microtomentum. Tergites with 3 posterior strips, sternites with 2 posterior strips. Tergite 8 shiny, widest anteriorly, posterior margin emarginated medially, anterior corners nearly meeting sternite 8 laterally. Epiproct with short anterior arms, covered with microtomentum except arms, with 1 pair of setae (Fig. 94). Cerci narrow. Sclerites of sternite 8 narrow anteriorly, parallel-sided for posterior two-thirds, microtomentum covering posterior quarter, apices with a hook-like structure, apical seta inserted at base of hook. Hypoproct depressed antero-medially, with a small proturberance in depression (Fig. 95). Spermathecae round, deep apical invagination meeting basal invagination, sclerotized duct about half as long as spermatheca (Fig. 96).  
 Type material. Holotype ♂: ECUADOR: Pichincha: Cotopaxi Natl. Pk., Quebrada Mishahuaicu, 3600 m, along stream, pan traps, 26 Oct–8 Nov 1999, S.A. Marshall, debu00139220 (QCAZ). Paratypes: same data as holotype (12 ♂, DEBU, QCAZ); Cotopaxi Natl. Pk., Lago Limpiopungo, 3800 m, páramo, shrub litter, 25 Oct 1999, R. Anderson (1 ♂, DEBU); as above but shore, pan traps, 25 Oct–8 Nov 1999, S.A. Marshall (3 ♂, DEBU); Quito–Baeza pass, 6 km W, pans/ dung, 4–8 Nov 1999, S.A. Marshall (2 ♂, DEBU); Azuay: Cerro Tinajillas, 3100 m, 18–21 Mar 1965, L.E. Peña (4 ♂, 6 ♀, CNCI); as above but 3200 m, 15 Mar 1965 (2 ♀, CNCI); Carchi: Cerro Chiles, 3200–3300 m, 26–27 Jun 1965, L.E. Peña (4 ♂, CNCI); Páramo El Ángel, 17.3 km NW El Ángel, 3400 m, pan traps among Espeletia, 1–3 Nov 1999, S.A. Marshall (1 ♀, DEBU); Páramo El Ángel, 18.8 km NW El Ángel, 3300 m, pan in Polylepis litter, 3 Nov 1999, S.A. Marshall (1 ♂, DEBU); Cotopaxi: Latacunga, 45 km NNE, 3700 m, shrub grass páramo, carrion traps, 19–25 Jul 1985, S. & J. Peck (3 ♂, 3 ♀, DEBU); Mt. Cotopaxi, NW slope, 3500 m, 26 Jul–5 Aug 1969, P. & B. Wygodzinsky (1 ♂, AMNH); Napo: Papallacta, 4 km W, 18 Jan 1978, W.N. Mathis (1 ♂, USNM); Quito - Baeza pass, 4000 m, elfin forest, dung trap, Mar 1979, S.A. Marshall (2 ♂, DEBU); [no locality], 3800 m, elfin forest, 1 Mar 1979, W.R.M. Mason (1 ♂, CNCI).   
 Comments. The species name is derived from the volcano Cotopaxi, one of the localities where this species occurs and a dominant geographical feature. The name should be treated as a noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of KITS, JOEL H. & MARSHALL, STEPHEN A., 2013, 
  Generic classification of the Archiborborinae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae), with a revision of  Antrops  Enderlein,  Coloantrops  gen. nov.,  Maculantrops  gen. nov.,  Photoantrops  gen. nov., and  Poecilantrops  gen. nov.  , pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3704 (1) on pages 62-65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3704.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507447