Coniceromyia femoralis Borgmeier

Ament, Danilo César & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2016, Taxonomic revision of Coniceromyia Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of three new species from Brazil, Zootaxa 4086 (1), pp. 1-87 : 35

Coniceromyia femoralis Borgmeier

( Figs. 164 , 216, 279, 329)

Coniceromyia femoralis Borgmeier, 1963b: 452 , figs. 1, 9, 11, 16.

Diagnosis (male). Very long scutellar setae (about three times longer than the scutellum), large frontal setae, hind femur with well-developed ventral lobe, extending along its entire venter ( Fig. 279 ).

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, PERU: 5 mi. NE Cerro de Pasco, Pasco, 3,500 m, 29.xii.1954, E.I. Schlinger & E.S. Ross col. ( CAS).

Comments. Coniceromyia femoralis seems to be closely related to C. lobipennis and C. parvicornis , sharing with them the enlarged frontal setae, hind femur ventrally swollen, first flagellomere globose, and the anterodorsal seta of the hind tibia at the apical fourth (rather than its usual preapical position).

Figures

FIGURES 158 – 173. Coniceromyia male forelegs. 158. C. costaricana; 159. C. cristifemur; 160. C. cubensis; 161. C. diaphaniptera; 162. C. disparivena; 163. C. epicantha; 164. C. femoralis; 165. C. franciscana; 166. C. globosa; 167. C. hoggi (modified from Kung 2009); 168. C. impluvia; 169. C. impudica; 170. C. latimana; 171. C. leucomacula; 172. C. lobipennis; 173. C. maculipennis.

FIGURES 277 – 281. Coniceromyia male hind femur. 277 – 278. C. epicantha; 279. C. femoralis; 280. C. franciscana; 281. C. globosa.