Tomosvaryella scopulata Hardy 1963
- Dataset
- Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) of Colombia, with description of two new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Pipunculidae
- genus
- Tomosvaryella
- species
- Tomosvaryella scopulata
biology_ecology
Habitat. The specimens were collected with Malaise traps at ground level in areas of tropical dry forest in the Caribbean region, at the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Colorados and Parque Nacional Natural Los Colorados, where the vegetation is composed of gallery forest with low elevation of the canopy from the ground in the Orinoco region of Colombia.
description
Figs 73 – 82, 133
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Male. Postcranium with lower half grayish-pruinose, upper half brownish-pruinose (Fig. 73). Hind trochanter with small triangular protuberance (Fig. 74). Tergites and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 75. Surstyli asymmetrical, robust with laterobasal lobe setulose; apex somewhat apically truncated in dorsal view, right surstylus slightly shorter (Figs 76 – 77), both surstyli with tips slightly downward-directed when seen in lateral view (Figs 78 – 79). Apex of phallic guide short, angled at about 30 degrees (Fig. 80). Phallus with one ejaculatory duct with three spines reclined, the other two ducts without spine (Fig. 80). Ejaculatory apodeme shortened, distally truncated (Fig. 81). Gonopods subsymmetrical, right gonopod slightly longer (Fig. 82).
discussion
Comments. The specimens collected are similar to the holotype illustrated by Ale-Rocha & Rafael (1995), differing only in the length, which exceeds in 1.16 mm that of the holotype.
distribution
Geographical distribution. Argentina; Cuba; Dominica; Mexico; Nicaragua; (Rodriguez & Rafael 2012); Colombia, Bolivar, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Los Colorados; Vichada, Parque Nacional Natural Tuparro (Fig. 133).
materials_examined
Material examined. COLOMBIA, Bolivar, SFF [Santuario de Fauna y Flora] Los Colorados, Villa Roca, 9 º 54 ’ N / 75 º 07 ’ W, 180 m [eters], Malaise, 24. ix – 9. xi. 2001, E. Deulufeut leg, “ M 2419 ”, (1 ♂, IAvH) ” (photographed specimen); “ idem, Vichada, PNN [Parque Nacional Natural] Tuparro, Pie Cerro Tomas, 5 º 21 ’ N / 67 º 51 ’ W, 250 m [eters], 22. v. – 3. vi. 2001, W. Villalba leg “ M 1792 ” (1 ♂, LEUA) ”.
Name
- Homonyms
- Tomosvaryella scopulata Hardy 1963