Coenosia translucida ( Emden, 1940: 212 )

Couri, Márcia & Pont, Adrian, 2016, Species of Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) described by Fritz van Emden from the British Museum Ruwenzori Expedition of 1934 – 1935, Zootaxa 4144 (4), pp. 529-555 : 553

Coenosia translucida ( Emden, 1940: 212)

( Figs 119–121 )

Holotype male seen; in good condition.

Diagnosis. Small species (3.5 mm); scutum brown; postpronotum and notopleuron with grey pollinosity; pleura grey pollinose; abdominal segment 1+2 and base of segment 3 brownish-yellow translucent; frons black with some silver reflexions from certain angles; palpus light brown; fore coxa yellow, legs brownish yellow, mid and hind femora with a brown mark on apical third of dorsal surface; wing infuscated; the narrowest point of fronto-facial stripe below the base of the antenna; frons widened towards vertex; arista almost bare; scutellum with both pairs of setae present and long, and with setulae on disc; anterior katepisternal short, posterior one long; haltere yellow; lower calypter about 2.5 times as long as upper one; fore tibia with a very long posteroventral seta; hind tibia with one anterior and one anterodorsal inserted almost at the same level, the anterior one shorter; sternite 5 as in Fig. 119 .

Male terminalia. Cercal plate and surstylus as in Fig. 120 . Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 121 .

Notes. Included in the rebmanni group. See the note above under C. kilembana . One male (not a paratype) dissected and illustrated.

Figures

FIGURES 113 – 124. Sternite 5; cercal plate and surstyli in dorsal view; epandrium, cercal plate, surstylus and aedeagus in lateral view: 113 – 115. Coenosia tertriguttata (Emden). 116 – 118. Coenosia tomentigera Emden, 1940. 119 – 121. Coenosia translucida (Emden). 122 – 124. Coenosia transversalis (Emden).