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Oxysarcodexia festiva Lopes & Tibana 1987

Description

Oxysarcodexia festiva Lopes & Tibana, 1987

(Figs 114–116)

Oxysarcodexia festiva Lopes & Tibana, 1987: 338; Costa Rica, Cartago, Turrialba. Holotype male in CAS (examined from photographs).

Diagnosis. [Based on the original description (Lopes & Tibana 1987) and on photographs provided by Dr. Norman Penny (CAS).] Male. Length 9.0 mm. Postocular plate with golden pollinosity. Ocellar bristles about the size of the smaller frontal bristles. Thorax with golden pollinosity dorsally and on mesonotum. Two well-differentiated posterior and 3 smaller anterior post-sutural dorsocentrals. Apical scutellar bristles absent. Legs brown. Abdomen with yellowish gray pollinosity, T4 with median marginal bristles. ST5 with slender and elongate apical arms covered with pilosity apically. Cercus with pre-apical dorsal recurrent lobe and distinct setosity at the apex. Distiphallus curved forwards, with trichosity ventroapically. Vesica robust with setosity-like projections ventrally; distal lobes elongate, membranous and with a pair of spines.

Remarks. This species is easily distinguished from other Oxysarcodexia species by the peculiar cercus, characterized by long pile dorsoapically (Lopes & Tibana 1987) (Fig. 116). Female unknown.

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL. Costa Rica.

Biology. Unknown.

Type material examined. No specimens were examined directly, but photographs of the holotype were provided by courtesy of Dr. Norman Penny (CAS).

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 pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4841.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4405603

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAS
Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Oxysarcodexia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lopes & Tibana
Species
festiva
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Oxysarcodexia festiva 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.