Paramycodrosophila puri, Frech-Telles & Gottschalk & Valente-Gaiesky, 2024

Frech-Telles, Marcos Henrique, Gottschalk, Marco Silva & Valente-Gaiesky, Vera Lúcia da Silva, 2024, Shifting the known richness of Paramycodrosophila Duda, 1924 (Diptera: Drosophilidae): the description of nineteen new species in the Neotropical region, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (e 20230105) 68, pp. 1-113 : 44-45

Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp.

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( Figs. 51-56 , 84D , 86B, C , 91D )

Material examined: Holotype male, labelled as follows: “BRA [= Brazil] – RJ [= State of Rio de Janeiro] – PES [= State Park ] da Pedra Selada (22°19’55.41”S, 44°32’14.25”W) Data: 19.i.2021 - 28.i.2021 Col.: Telles MHF OBS.: Armadilha [=Trap] Malaise”; “ Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp. Frech-Telles, Valente-Gaiesky, Gottschalk, ♂ Holotype ” [ MZUSP].

Paratypes: Sc 008, female labelled as follows: “BRA [= Brazil] – RJ [=State of Rio de Janeiro] – PES [=State Park] da Pedra Selada (22°19’58.42”S, 44°32’13.21”W) Data: 05.xii.2020 - 22.xii.2020 Col.: Telles MHF; Vicenzi N OBS.: Armadilha [=Trap] Malaise”, “Sc008”, “ Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp. Frech-Telles, Valente-Gaiesky, Gottschalk, ♀ Paratype ” [ MZUSP]; Sc122, female labelled as follows: “BRA [= Brazil] - MG [=State of Minas Gerais] – Bocaina de Minas (22°19’46.69”S, 44°32’31.3”W) Data: 20.i.2021 - 25.i.2021 Col.: Telles MHF OBS.: Armadilha [=Trap] Malaise”, “Sc122”, “ Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp. Frech-Telles, Valente-Gaiesky, Gottschalk, ♀ Paratype ” [ MZUSP] .

Diagnosis. Flies dark with several lighter areas forming a mottled pattern; very prominent black ocellar triangle; scutum mostly dark brown with lighter areas fused resembling an uppercase “M”; mid acrostichal row with larger and thicker setulae posteriorly specially the last four pairs of setulae which are densely grouped forming a distinguishable thicket of setulae; legs with femora and tibiae yellow with two dark brown rings each, femora with one basal and one sub-apical and tibiae with one sub-basal and one sub-apical; femora yellow with two dark brown rings, one basal and one sub-apical; tibiae yellow with two dark brown rings, one sub-basal band and one sub-apical; wing infuscated with a very large, broad, apically round, black costal lappet abdomen with dark brown with some yellow areas. Posterior hypandrial process present. Postgonites “L”-shaped.Phallus tubular, narrow, projected ventrally, with two antero-posterior small, rounded, more membranous, projections dorsally; the lateral margins of phallotrema have two indentations.

Description. Holotype ( Figs.51 , 52 , 84D , 91D ). Head ( Fig.51A ): yellow with black and brown marks; eyes red, pubescent; face brown; carina brown with the anterior tip lighter, narrow, prominent; scape brown; pedicel yellow anteriorly brown; flagellomere 1 brown with yellow internal margin, yellow apically and basally, large, compressed; arista with six dorsal and one ventral branch, and terminal fork; frons yellow and brown; fronto-orbital plate brown, margin of the eye anterior to p rc frorb s yellow; fronto-orbital setae black; distance between pc frorb s and a rc frorb s = 0.02 mm, between pc frorb s and p rc frorb s = 0.09 mm, and between a rc frorb s and p rc frorb s = 0.07 mm; frontal vitta yellow, brown posterior of the height of the pc frorb s; frontal triangle brown, yellow anterior to ocellar triangle, large; postocellar setae black, crossing; genae light yellow, darker at the ventral margin, dark spot under the eye near the vibrissa; palps black,large; labrum brown; labellum dark brown. Thorax ( Figs. 51B, C ): brown with yellow with greyish marks; scutum brown with several marks; v1 greyish, progressively larger anterior to the middle point of scutum; v2 and v3 brown; v4 greyish;v5 brown;v6 greyish with a large dark brown mark in the supra alar region; v2 converges and fuse medially; v1 and v4 converges and fuse anteriorly forming a shape resembling the letter “M”; four irregular rows of acrostichal setulae, acrostichal setulae absent posterior of the height of the anterior dorsocentral setae; postpronotum light yellow; anterior dorsocentral setae slightly convergent and smaller than posterior dorsocentral setae; scutellum brown with lighter spot anterior to the apical setae; basal and apical scutellar setae parallel and curved inwards; pleura brown with yellow marks; proepisternum brown, ventral half lighter; anepisternum brown slightly lighter near the ventral margin; anepimeron brown with dorsal margin lighter; katepisternum dark brown; meron brown; legs yellow with dark brown marks; coxa yellow with brown marks. Wings ( Fig. 51F ): faint darker patch present bellow costal lappet, lighter patch after the costal lappet and along Cu; R 4+5 and M 1 very slightly convergent; R 2+3 very slightly curved to costal at its tip; halter light; index: C = 1.72, ac = 3.13, hb = 0.72, 4c = 1.39, 4v = 2.33, 5x = 2.08, M = 0.75, prox. x = 0.50. Length = 1.66 mm, width = 0.75 mm. Abdomen ( Figs. 51D, E ): T1 light brown; T2 brown, posterior half darker, sub-laterally yellow; T3 brown, sub-laterally yellow,faint yellow spot at the anterior margin sub-laterally of the central brown area; T4 brown, anterior yellow marks covering one fifth of the anterior area of the sternite on each side sub-laterally to the brown area; T5 light brown with anterior sub-dorsal yellow marks covering one fourth of the anterior area of the sternite on each side; T6 light brown; sternites brown; intersegmental membranes light. Terminalia ( Figs. 52 , 91D ): epandrium is approximately equal width and length, with microtrichia, with eight upper setae; ventral lobe large, glabrous, with many long setae. Cerci projected posteroventrally, not fused to the epandrium, with microtrichia, with very long setae, hypoproctal plate present. Subepandrial sclerite squarish, membranous. Surstylus with many prensisetae, inner and outer setae. Hypandrium,longer than wide, squarish;shorter than epandrium, with a large posterior hypandrial process. Pregonites large fused to the hypandrium, not fused medially, with a seta near the fusion with postgonite. Postgonites long, the ventral section of the postgonite is slim and connects with the pregonite near its anterior margin; the posterior sections of postgonites are broad and symmetrical, ornated with projections apically,its apex is broader; the posterior section of postgonite is longer than the ventral section.Phallapodeme is smaller than phallus and sinuous. Body length: 1.61 mm.

Paratypes remarks: females: Sc008 ( Figs. 53 , 54 , 86B ); Sc122 ( Figs. 55 , 56 , 86C ): Flies slightly darker; Abdomen with T7 light yellow with anterior and lateral margins black; S7 with microtrichia and 10 setulae. Sc122:arista with seven dorsal branches and apical scutellar setae convergent.Wing indexes:Sc008:C = 1.82, ac = 3.17, hb = 0.62, 4c = 1.21,4v = 2.11, 5x = 2.00, M = 0.72, prox.x = 0.40.Length = 1.98 mm, width = 0.94 mm; SC122: C = 1.86, ac = 3.05, hb = 0.63, 4c = 1.35, 4v = 2.40, 5x = 2.47, M = 0.86, prox. x = 0.44. Length = 1.96 mm, width = 0.93 mm. Body length: Sc008: 2.53 mm; Sc122: 2.01 mm. Terminalia : Sc008: T8 with microtrichia in the dorsal region, with around 14 setulae ventrally; epiproct and hypoproct with microtrichia, with many long and some smaller setae; oviscapt vale, sclerotinized, long, acute at the tip in lateral view; around seven darker peg-like ovisensilla on the posteroventral margin and around three tiny pegs on the ventral margin; Spermathecal capsule highly sclerotized,dome-shaped, bare, with a wrinkled ring near the basal opening; introvert 2/3 of the total length of the capsule, with a small depression apically. Eggs: chorion ornated, with four filaments and the micropyle; the two apical filaments are about 2/3 of the length of the sub-apical; the bigger filaments are 1/4 the length of the main body of the chorion. Sc122: T8 with microtrichia in the dorsal region, with around 10 setulae ventrally; epiproct and hypoproct with microtrichia, with many long and some smaller setae; oviscapt vale, sclerotinized, long, acute at the tip in lateral view; around seven darker peg-like ovisensilla on the posteroventral margin and around four tiny pegs on the ventral margin. Spermathecal capsule highly sclerotized, dome-shaped, with a basal wrinkled ring; introvert 2/3 of the total length of the capsule, with a small depression apically. Eggs: chorion ornated, with four filaments and the micropyle; the two apical filaments are almost the length of the sub-apical; the bigger filaments are 1/4 the length of the main body of the chorion.

Etymology. Named in reference to the Puri indigenous group, who inhabited the region in which the types were collected.

The following descriptions are of female specimens that could not be delimited as a new species nor placed in a described species.

Figures

Figure 51 Holotype of Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp.: A, head (anterolateral view); B, thorax (dorsal view); C, thorax (lateral view); D, abdomen (lateral view); E, abdomen (dorsal view); F, wing.

Figure 52 Holotype ofParamycodrosophila puri n.sp.: A,posterior end of abdomen (ventral view); B,posterior end of abdomen (lateralview); C,articulated periphallic and phallic organs (posteroventral view); D,articulated periphallic and phallic organs (lateral view); E, epandrium and associated sclerites (posterolateral view); F,surstyli and subepandrial sclerite (dorsal view); G,hypandrium,phallus and associated sclerites (ventral view); H,hypandrium,phallus and associated sclerites (lateroventral view); I,hypandrium,phallus and associated sclerites (lateral view). Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figure 53 Paratype of Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp. (Sc008): A,head (anterolateral view); B, thorax (dorsal view); C,head and thorax (lateral view); D,abdomen (lateral view); E, abdomen (dorsal view); F,wing.

Figure 54 Paratype of Paramycodrosophila puri n.sp.(Sc008):A,posterior end of abdomen (ventral view); B, posterior end of abdomen (lateral view); C,oviscapt (ventral view); D, oviscapt (lateral view); E, anterior end of chorion (lateral view); F, spermathecae (lateral view).Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figure 55 Paratype of Paramycodrosophila puri n. sp.(Sc122): A, head (anterolateral view); B, thorax (dorsal view); C, head and thorax (lateral view); D, abdomen (lateral view); E, abdomen (dorsal view); F, wing.

Figure 56 Paratype of Paramycodrosophila puri n.sp. (Sc122):A, posterior end of abdomen (ventral view); B, posterior end of abdomen (lateral view); C, oviscapt (ventral view); D, oviscapt (lateral view); E, spermatheca (lateral view); F, choria (left, dorsal view; right, lateral view). Scale bars: 0.1 mm.

Figure 84 Males. Habitus of: A, Holotype of Paramycodrosophila mantiqueira n. sp.; B, Holotype of P. maculosa n. sp.; C, Holotype of P. melana n. sp.; D, Holotype of P. puri n. sp. Scale bars: 1 mm.

Figure 86 Females. Habitus of: A, Paratype of Paramycodrosophila pedraseladensis n. sp.; B, Sc008, Paratype of P. puri n. sp.; C, Sc122, Paratype of P. puri n. sp.; D, P. sp.1; E, P. sp.2; F, P.sp.3. Scale bars: 1 mm.

Figure 91 Males. Posterolateral view of terminalia of: A, Holotype of Paramycodrosophila mantiqueira n. sp.; B, Holotype of P.maculosa n. sp.; C, Holotype of P.melana n. sp.; D, Holotype of P. puri n. sp. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.