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Mesembrinella obscura Wolff 2017

Description

Mesembrinella obscura (Wolff, 2017)

Huascaromusca obscura Wolff in Wolff et al., 2017: 253. Holotype male (CEUA), not examined. Type locality: Vereda La Floresta, Jardín, Antioquia, Colombia.

Mesembrinella obscura: Cerretti et al. (2017: tab. 2).

Diagnosis. Postpronotal lobe with 3x 3 setae; subcostal sclerite bare; legs entirely dark; spiracles black; ac 0:1; outer ph 1.

Redescription. [Summarized from Wolff et al. (2017).] Male. A medium-sized dark blue fly with bright blue reflections. Frons 0.058 (0.044–0.69/8) of head width at narrowest. Scutellar chaetotaxy: 1 ap, 1 bas, 1 pb, 1 disc. Wing mostly hyaline, with slight darkening at base and around crossvein r-m. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli and other characters as in Wolff et al. (2017: figs 5–11).

Female. Wolff et al. (2017) give female frons width at narrowest as 0.238 (0.228 –0.250 /10). Terminalia not illustrated or described in detail.

Material examined. None (no specimens could be obtained for examination).

Distribution. Colombia.

Notes

Published as part of Whitworth, Terry L. & Yusseff-Vanegas, Sohath, 2019, A revision of the genera and species of the Neotropical family Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4659 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4659.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3377239

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CEUA
Scientific name authorship
Wolff
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Calliphoridae
Genus
Mesembrinella
Species
obscura
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mesembrinella obscura Wolff, 2017 sec. Whitworth & Yusseff-Vanegas, 2019

References

  • Wolff, M., Ramos-Pastrana, Y., Marinho, M. A. T. & Amorim, D. d. S. (2017) Two new species of Huascaromusca Townsend from Colombia, and a new combination for Giovanella carvalhoi (Diptera: Mesembrinellidae). Zootaxa, 4231 (2), 251 - 263. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4231.2. 7
  • Cerretti, P., Stireman, J. O. III., Pape, T., O'Hara, J. E., Marinho, M. A. T., Rognes, K. & Grimaldi, D. A. (2017) First fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences. PLoS ONE, 12 (8), e 0182101. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 018210 1