Chonocephalus steineri, Disney, 2005

Disney, R. H. L., 2005, Revision of Afrotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae), Journal of Natural History 39 (5), pp. 393-430 : 425

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930410001708680

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1F6887D7-3A04-4B69-FE04-FF0C02D9C386

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Chonocephalus steineri
status

sp. nov.

Chonocephalus steineri View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figures 59–62 View Figures 59–62 )

Material

Holotype: male, Madagascar, Fianarantsoa, 7 km W Ranomafana , 20.83 ° S, 44.7 ° E, 1100 m, 1–7 November 1988, W. E. Steiner ( LACM Ent 039841—26-57) GoogleMaps . Paratype: male, as holotype (Ent 039883).

Etymology

Named after the collector, W. E. Steiner.

Male

Frons, scutellum and abdominal tergites brown, rest of thorax paler. Postpedicels and palps light brown. The latter with many hairs and longer, but fine, apical hair. Femora yellowish brown. Rest of legs straw yellow variably lightly tinged brown. Wing length 1.4 mm. Costal index 0.64–0.65. Membrane tinged grey. Hypopygium chestnut brown and relatively large. Surstylus, lower left side of epandrium, hypandrial lobes and gonopods as Figures 59–62 View Figures 59–62 .

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Chonocephalus

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