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Agrophaspidium pollinosum Wheeler and Mlynarek, sp. n.

Description

Agrophaspidium pollinosum Wheeler and Mlynarek, sp. n.

(Figs. 4, 19–21)

Description: Total length 1.4–1.8mm. Frons yellow anteriorly, brown posteriorly, densely gray pollinose; frontal triangle in male with two shining stripes lateral to posterior ocelli, female with additional shining spot anterior to anterior ocellus, frontal triangle darker in male than in female; ocellar tubercle black, pollinose; 5– 6 long, strong fronto-orbital setae; 4–5 short interfrontal setulae, anterior pair longest, but weak and pale; ocellar bristles dark, shorter than fronto-orbital setae; postocellar bristles strong, dark, same size as outer verticals; inner vertical bristle dark, fine, short; outer vertical bristle strong, dark; eye sparsely pubescent, genal height 0.08–0.11 times eye height; vibrissa slender, longer than other genal setae; postgena and occiput densely pollinose; face pale, densely pollinose; antenna pedicel yellow; first flagellomere yellow, slightly darker anterodorsally; arista slender, short pubescent; arista yellow at base, brown distally; palpus and proboscis yellow, clypeus brown.

Scutum gray, densely pollinose; one postpronotal bristle stronger than others, postpronotum yellow anteriorly in female; notopleuron paler than rest of scutum, densely pollinose; scutellum slightly paler than scutum, densely pollinose; scutellar projections short, scutellar bristles strong, dark (Fig. 4); thoracic pleurites shining except for dorsal region of anepisternum and anepimeron. Legs yellow, femora, basal two-thirds of tibiae and distal tarsomeres yellow-brown. Wing: ratio of second to third costal sectors 1.1–1.4:1; halter white, base brown. Abdomen brown, densely pollinose.

Male postabdomen: epandrium large, bulbous, much broader than rest of abdomen (Fig. 19); surstylus large, outer lobe elongate, narrow, simple, with blunt apex, inner lobe elongate, curved, simple, with blunt apex (Figs. 20–21); cercus elongate, slender, simple (Fig. 21).

Type material: Holotype ɗ: VENEZUELA: Aragua, Rancho Grande Biological Station, Portachuelo Pass (10°21’N 67°41’W), 1100m, 14.v.1998, flight intercept trap, J. Ashe, R. Brooks & R. Hanley (LEM). Paratypes: PANAMA: Canal Zone, E shore Gatun Lake, near Colón, 2–14.vii.1979, humid forest, Tree 3, E.C. Broadhead, canopy fogging (1ɗ, 1Ψ, USNM).

Etymology: The species name is from the Latin pollinosum (dusted), referring to the densely pollinose thorax.

Notes

Published as part of Wheeler, Terry A. & Mlynarek, Julia J., 2008, Systematics of Agrophaspidium, a new genus of Neotropical Chloropidae (Diptera), pp. 41-52 in Zootaxa 1926 on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184802

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Biodiversity

Family
Chloropidae
Genus
Agrophaspidium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wheeler and Mlynarek
Species
pollinosum
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Agrophaspidium pollinosum Wheeler & Mlynarek, 2008