Mesembrinella obscura Wolff 2017
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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.
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Identifiers
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