Published August 28, 2020 | Version v1

Spilogona baltica

  • 1. Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Horto Botânico, São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
  • 2. Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom. pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com

Description

Spilogona baltica (Ringdahl, 1918)

Syntypes.

2 males, 1 female. Germany.

Diagnosis.

Length of body. 4.0-5.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male holoptic. Fronto-orbital plate, ocellar triangle, face, parafacial and gena silver shiny from certain angles. Ocellar triangle dark brown, very short. Ocellar setae long. Eye without hairs. Antenna dark brown. Arista dark brown, short pubescent. Palpus dark brown. Gena at lowest eye margin about the same width as postpedicel. Oral margin not projecting forwards. Thorax. Scutum and pleura uniformly brown. Acrostichals developed, in 2-3 irregular rows. Dorsocentrals 2 + 3. Notopleuron without setulae. Anepisternum without interspatial seta. Haltere yellow. Calypters brown. Legs. Brown. Fore tibia without a posterior seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterior setae on middle third; without anteroventral and anterodorsal. Hind femur with posteroventral setae in basal third. Hind tibia with 2-3 anterodorsal setae; 1 submedian anteroventral; without posterodorsal. Arolium and pulvillus enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Abdomen. Sternite 1 bare.

Remarks.

The species can be identified with the key by Hennig (1959) who also illustrated the male terminalia (Hennig 1959, plate 11 fig. 216, plate 14 fig. 292).

Notes

Published as part of Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2020, Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), pp. 1-57 in Zoologia 37 on pages 1-57, DOI: 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ringdahl
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Spilogona
Species
baltica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Spilogona baltica (Ringdahl, 1918) sec. Couri & Pont, 2020

References

  • Ringdahl O (1918) Neue nordische Anthomyiden. Entomologisk Tidskrift 39: 148-194.