Oxysarcodexia ramosa ( Reinhard, 1939 )

Souza, Carina Mara De, Pape, Thomas & Thyssen, Patricia Jacqueline, 2020, Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) - a centennial conspectus, Zootaxa 4841 (1), pp. 1-126 : 91-93

Oxysarcodexia ramosa ( Reinhard, 1939)

( Figs 234–236 )

Sarcophaga ramosa Reinhard, 1939: 64 ; USA, Texas, Donnas. Holotype male (examined from photographs) and two male paratypes in CNC.

Diagnosis. [Based on the redescription provided by Lopes (1946b) and photographs provided by courtesy of Dr. James E. O’Hara (CNC).] Male. Length 9.0–10.0 mm. Head yellowish-gray. Ocellar bristles weakly developed. Thorax grayish. Four well-differentiated post-sutural dorsocentral bristles.Apical scutellar bristles absent. Legs dark brown. Abdomen yellowish-gray, T5 reddish. ST5 reddish and with deep median cleft with margins almost parallel. Pregonite with expanded base, gradually narrowing to apex; unicolorous. Postgonite unicolorous. Distiphallus with ventroapical concavity with serrated margin, conical apex and straight dorsal outline. Vesica asymmetrical, with rounded median projection of main branch; distal lobes well developed, surpassing apex of distiphallus, with sclerotized and asymmetrical branches and flattened scale-like structures on smaller branch.

Remarks. Oxysarcodexia ramosa is one of the species of the genus possessing a distinctly asymmetrical vesica ( Fig. 235 ). Female unknown.

Distribution. NEARCTIC. USA (Texas).

Biology. Unknown.

Type material examined. No specimens were examined directly, but photographs of the holotype were provided by courtesy of Dr. James E. O’Hara (CNC).

Figures

FIGURES 228–236. Oxysarcodexia spp., males. 228–230. Oxysarcodexia petropolitana Lopes, paratype (Brazil, São Paulo, MNRJ). 228. Habitus, lateral view. 229. Terminalia, lateral view. 230. Terminalia, posterior view. 231–233. Oxysarcodexia plebeja Lopes (Colombia, Antioquia, Medellín, CE-TdeA). 226. Habitus, lateral view. 227. Terminalia, lateral view. 228. Terminalia, posterior view. 234–236. Oxysarcodexia ramosa (Reinhard), holotype (USA, Texas, Donnas, CNC). 234. Habitus, lateral view. 235. Terminalia, lateral view. 236. Terminalia, posterior view. Figs 234–235 by J.E. O’Hara (CNC); Fig. 236 adapted from Dodge (1966).