Published March 6, 2023 | Version v1
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Aragara atra Riccardi 2023, comb. nov.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany. paula _ riccardi @ yahoo. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4850 - 7524

Description

Aragara atra (Duda, 1934), comb. nov.

(Figs 1–4)

Oscinis atra Duda, 1934: 141–142 (original designation)

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra).

Specimens examined: Lectotype ♁ Sumatra, Fort de Kock, 920 m, leg. E. Jacobson (MfN; http://coll.mfn-berlin. de/u/b8d633) new designation, paralectotypes 2 ♁ 1 ♀ idem (MfN) new designations.

Comments: Dark stout species (fig. 1A); fore femur slightly enlarged, with eight short spines (fig. 1B); ocellar triangle with one mesal and two lateral longitudinal grooves; frons apex yellow; arista with short pubescence (fig. 2). Male genitalia (figs. 3–4) with anal lobe bearing one pair of anal sclerites; mesolobus drop-shaped; surstylus with small spines apically; postgonite longer than pregonite; epiphallus membranous; basiphallus round apically; and distiphallus long.

Externally, A. atra comb. nov. shares similarities with A. femorata and A. menglaensis and the coloration of the abdominal syntergite 1+2 is doubtful in A. atra. Aragara menglaensis has a relatively similar male terminalia, but the fore femur has 10–11 spines, basal abdominal tergites are mostly yellow, unlike A. atra and A. femorata. On the other hand, the distinction between A. atra comb. nov. and A. femorata seems to be restricted to the thorax pollinosity and phallic complex morphology. A. atra possess golden pollinosity (fig. 2), basiphallus rounded and postgonite longer than pregonite (fig. 3), while A. femorata has grey pollinosity, basiphallus quadrate in ventral view and postgonite about as long as pregonite (Cherian 1984, fig. 14).

Notes

Published as part of Riccardi, Paula Raile, 2023, The identity of Aragara atra (Duda, 1934) (Diptera: Chloropidae), pp. 598-600 in Zootaxa 5249 (5) on page 598, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/7701417

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MfN
Scientific name authorship
Riccardi
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Chloropidae
Genus
Aragara
Species
atra
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Aragara atra (Duda, 1934) sec. Riccardi, 2023