Porphyrochroa atlantica, Mendonça, 2010

Mendonça, Mirian Nascimento, 2010, New species of Porphyrochroa Melander (Diptera: Empididae) from Paraná, Brazil and key to Brazilian species from southern and south-eastern Brazil, Journal of Natural History 44 (9 - 10), pp. 615-624 : 617-621

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903437333

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5208784-FFDA-FFA2-FDD0-FA61FC2CFCC8

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Carolina

scientific name

Porphyrochroa atlantica
status

 

Porphyrochroa atlantica

( Figures 1 View Figure 1 A–I, 2, 3)

Diagnosis

Porphyrochroa atlantica sp. nov. differs from all other studied species by the tergite 7 in the form of an arrow posteriorly.

Description

Male. Body length 2.9 mm; wing length 2.7 mm. Head shiny dark-brown, with metallic green lustre in diverse angles of incident light. Eyes dichoptic. Frons and face shiny dark-brown. Frons slightly wider than anterior ocellus width, subparallel-sided, with three pairs proclinate setae. Face slightly longer and wider than frons width. Proboscis yellow, length equal to height of head. Palpus light-brown, with one small and almost apical seta. Ocellar tubercule with vitreous yellow ocellus; two proclinate ocellar setae; two proclinate postocellar setae. Antenna brown, with conspicuous grey pruinescence; scape and pedicel medially verticillate; flagellum about four times longer than scape and pedicel combined. Postcranium shiny brown, with distinct brown setae and little grey pruinescence; a pair of proclinate vertical setae; postocellar setae distinct, with dorsal stronger. Gena and postgena with grey pruinescence. Thorax shiny dark-brown, with metallic green lustre in diverse incident angles of light and conspicuous postsutural light-grey pruinescence. Thoracic setae: 4 ktg; 4 ap sctl; 1 pprn; 1 prepst; 3 acr; 4 dc; 1 p spal; 1 spal; 1 pal; 1 npl. Legs yellow with distinct and short setae. Wing hyaline with conspicuous pterostigma; anal lobe wide; R 2+3 curved ( Figure 4A View Figure 4 ). Halter light-brown. Abdomen shiny brown, with metallic green lustre in diverse angles of incident light. Sternites brown. Tergite 7 in arrow format posteriorly and with pair of posteroventral protuberances ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ); tergite 8 concave posteriorly with few setae confined posterolaterally ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ); sternite 7 wider than long ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ); sternite 8 sub-square ( Figure 1B View Figure 1 ). Terminalia: epandrium digitiform ( Figure 1F View Figure 1 ). Hipandrium without setae with apex narrow ( Figure 1E,G View Figure 1 ). Cercus elongate with narrower superior projection in dorsal view ( Figure 1I View Figure 1 ); ejaculatory apodeme with four projections in anterior view ( Figure 1D View Figure 1 ); subepandrial sclerite as in Figure 1H View Figure 1 .

Female. Unknown.

Distribution

Brazil (Paraná).

Type material

Holotype. Male : Antonina – PR, Reserva Sapitanduva , Brasil, 3 October 1986, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, Lâmpada \ Holotipo male Porphyrochroa atlantica sp. nov. ( DZUP).

Paratypes. Antonina – PR, Reserva Sapitanduva, Brasil , 2 October 1986, Lev. Ent. PRO- FAUPAR, Lâmpada (1 male, DZUP) ; 5 October 1986 (1 male, DZUP) ; 1 December 1986 (1 male, DZUP) ; 2 December 1986 (1 male, DZUP) ; Telêmaco Borba – PR, Reserva Samuel Klabin, Brasil , 1 December 1986, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, Malaise (1 male, DZUP) .

Holotype condition: right hindleg without tarsi; left wing mounted on microslide in Canada balsam; abdomen within microvial with glycerin. Microslide and microvial pinned along with the specimen.

Etymology

Atlantica refers to the Atlantic forest, where this species was collected.

DZUP

Universidade Federal do Parana, Colecao de Entomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Genus

Porphyrochroa

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