Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) cuautla Giroux & Wheeler

Giroux, Marjolaine & Wheeler, Terry A., 2010, Systematics of Bulbostyla, a new subgenus of Sarcophaga Meigen, and change of status for Robackina Lopes (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Zootaxa 2553, pp. 35-59 : 42-43

Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) cuautla Giroux & Wheeler sp. nov.

( Figs. 14–19 )

Type material: holotype: ɗ labelled ‘ Cuautla Mx / June 5 '22 / EG Smith’; ‘ɗ’; ‘GN’; ‘David G. Hall / COLL.’; ‘N. Gen? / Sp.N. / Det. D. G. Hall’; ‘ Holotype / Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) / cuautla / Giroux & Wheeler’ ( USNM).

Description (male): body length 11.0 mm.

Head: 12–14 pairs of medioclinate frontal setae. Genal setae black, postgena mostly white-haired, black setae restricted to posterior part of postgena.

Thorax: proanepisternum bare.

Wing: dark hairs on lateral margin of alula longer than those on anterior margin of anal lobe. Hairs fringing calypters pale-brown.

Legs: hind tibia without long, wavy posteroventral hairs.

Abdomen: tergite 5 same color as other abdominal tergites or with a pale brown margin, with a marginal row of strong setae, two middle (dorsal) ones sometimes slightly anterior to the others.

Terminalia: cerci and syntergosternite 7+8 same color as epandrium. Surstylus without a small posteroventral projection. Window on sternite 5 almost even with rest of base. Pregonite with pointed lateral extension. Vesica and juxta as in Figs. 14–15 . Juxta in posterior view as in Fig. 16 .

Female: unknown.

Etymology: The species name is a noun in apposition based on the type locality, Cuautla , Mexico.

Figures

FIGURES 14 – 19. Sarcophaga (Bulbostyla) cuautla. 14. Phallus and hypandrial complex, left lateral. 15. Acrophallus, anterior. 16. Acrophallus, posterior. 17. Epandrium, surstylus and cerci, lateral. 18. Epandrium, surstylus and cerci, posterior. 19. Male sternite 5, ventral. Scale bar = 0.2 mm (Figs. 14 – 16), 0.5 mm (Figs. 17 – 19).