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Oxysarcodexia eberti Lopes & Tibana 1987

Description

Oxysarcodexia eberti Lopes & Tibana, 1987

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Oxysarcodexia eberti Lopes & Tibana, 1987: 336; Brazil, Minas Gerais, Paracatu. Holotype male in MNRJ.

Diagnosis. Male. Length 6.0 mm. Postocular plate with golden pollinosity. Ocellar bristles weakly developed. Thorax and abdomen with silvery pollinosity and slightly pale golden pollinosity shades; T5 with slightly pale golden pollinosity, although silvery pollinosity more intense. Two well-differentiated posterior and 3 smaller anterior post-sutural dorsocentrals.Apical scutellar bristles absent. Legs blackish. T3 with 2 pairs of lateral marginal bristles, T4 without median marginal and with 2 pairs of lateral marginal bristles. ST5 with deep median cleft with margins almost parallel and with pilosity. Cercus bent slightly backwards, with expanded obliquely cut apex and dorsal subapical barb. Cercus with bristles ventrally absent only on middle portion. Cerci with distal third narrower than middle part in posterior view; parallel. Pregonite and postgonite both with expanded base and sudden narrowing at apex, which is darker than base only in pregonite. Distiphallus with smooth ventroapical margin, square/oblong apex, sinuous dorsal outline, large membranous dorsoapical swelling and lateroapical expansions. Vesica symmetrical, with angular median projection of main branch; distal lobes well developed, squared, mostly sclerotized, with spines along margins.

Remarks. See under O. aurata. Female unknown.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL. Brazil (Distrito Federal, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais).

Biology. This species has been collected in association with pig carcasses in the Brazilian Cerrado (Barros et al. 2008; Rosa et al. 2011), being more abundant during the dry period (Rosa et al. 2011).

Type material examined. Holotype ♂: PARACATU MINAS BRASIL / IX.69 / Holotype / Oxysarcodexia eberti [no italics] n. sp. holotypus ♂ Det. H. S. Lopes & R. Tibana / MNRJ 2238 [typed vertically on left side of label] [MNRJ].

Other material examined. [♂] BRASIL: MT: Chap. Dos Guimarães Véu da Noiva—cerrado S15°24′ W55°50′ Shannon—peixe 16.i.2012 Mello-Patiu & Patiu col. SISBIOTA/CNPq/FAPESP / Oxysarcodexia eberti Lopes & Tibana, 1987 Det. C. A. Mello-Patiu [MNRJ].

Notes

Published as part of Souza, Carina Mara De, Pape, Thomas & Thyssen, Patricia Jacqueline, 2020, Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) - a centennial conspectus, pp. 1-126 in Zootaxa 4841 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4841.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4405603

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNRJ
Event date
2012-01-16
Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Oxysarcodexia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MNRJ 2238
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lopes & Tibana
Species
eberti
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2012-01-16
Taxonomic concept label
Oxysarcodexia eberti Lopes, 1987 sec. Souza, Pape & Thyssen, 2020

References

  • Lopes, H. S. & Tibana, R. (1987) On Oxysarcodexia (Diptera, Sarcophagidae), with descriptions of five new species, key, list and geographic distribution of the species. Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 47 (3), 329 - 347.
  • Barros, R. M. de, Mello-Patiu, C. A. de & Pujol-Luz, J. R. (2008) Sarcophagidae (Insecta, Diptera) associados a decomposicao de carcacas de Sus scrofa Linnaeus (Suidae) em area de Cerrado do Distrito Federal, Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 52 (4), 606 - 609. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0085 - 56262008000400011
  • Rosa, T. A., Babata, M. L. Y., Souza, C. M., Sousa, D., Mello-Patiu, C. A., Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. & Mendes, J. (2011) Arthropods associated with pig carrion in two vegetation profiles of Cerrado in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 55 (3), 424 - 434. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0085 - 56262011005000045