Pityocera (Pityocera) festai Giglio-Tos, 1896

Krolow, Tiago Kütter, Henriques, Augusto Loureiro, Gorayeb, Inocêncio De Sousa, Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco & Buestán, Jaime, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896 (Diptera: Tabanidae: Scionini), Zootaxa 3904 (3), pp. 301-333 : 308

Pityocera (Pityocera) festai Giglio-Tos, 1896

(figures 3A–F)

Type locality: Panama, Darien, Rio Lara, Laguna Pita.

Pityocera festae Giglio-Tos, 1896: 3 , fig. 1. Kertész, 1900: 5 (catalog); Ricardo, 1900: 99; Hunter, 1901: 135 (catalog); Ricardo, 1904: 90; Aldrich, 1905: 200 (catalog); Kertész, 1908: 147 (catalog); Surcouf & González-Rincones, 1912: 86; Surcouf, 1921: 100, pl. 3, figs. 11a–b; Kröber, 1930: 310, fig. 5, 1934: 235 (catalog); Fairchild, 1942: 183, figs. 7, 7a, 7b; Bequaert & Renjifo-Salcedo, 1946: 60; Fairchild & León, 1986: 104.

Pityocera (Pityocera) festai, Coscarón & Papavero, 2009b: 46 . festae , authors in error (named for Enrico Festa cf. Papavero, 1973:352 –353).

Pityocera (Pityocera) festae, Fairchild, 1971: 27 (catalog); Moucha, 1976: 41 (catalog); Wilkerson, 1979: 179; Fairchild, 1986: 35; Henriques & Gorayeb, 1993: 5 (MPEG collection); Fairchild & Burger, 1994: 51 (catalog); Henriques, 1997: 62 (INPA collection); Lessard et al., 2013: 517 (molecular Scionini ); Lessard, 2014: 231 (revision Scionini ).

Diagnosis. Species brown with wing fumose and yellow legs (fig. 3A); face (upper half) and clypeus shiny (fig. 3B). Easily recognizable by its bipectinate flagellum (fig. 3C), flagellomeres 1–6 with long dorsal and ventral projections, which are larger in the first flagellomere and progressively smaller until to apex.

Morphology. for female external characters, see Wilkerson (1979: 179).

Terminalia Description ♀ (figs. 3D–F): tergites IX and X, cercus and hypoproct as in figure 3D. Tergite IX fused, clearly narrower than tergite X. Tergite X divided into two pieces closely united by a membrane. Cercus rounded, but with apex almost straight, covered with yellow hairs. Hypoproct with apex rounded, reaching less than half the cercus length. Hypogynium + hypogynial valve (fig. 3E). Hypogynium subtriangular with lateral margins straight; apex with long slit reaching the hypogynial valve. Genital fork (fig. 3F) with arms thin, without distal expansions; anterior margin heavily excavated, with lateral margins pointed; spermathecal ducts long and little sclerotized. Spermatheca (fig. 3F) heavily pigmented, rounded with apex slightly narrowed.

Male: unknown.

Distribution. Panama, western Colombia and Ecuador.

Type material. Holotype ♀ IEAUT, not examined.

Examined material. PANAMA: Panama, Rio Pequen, viii.1940 (♀ AMNH, ♀ CAS, ♀ MZUSP, 2♀ USNM); idem, vii.1941 (♀ AMNH); idem, Canal Zone, Gatua, vii.1931, Curry (♀ USNM); idem, Army School, Malar., without date, R. H. Arnett (2♀ LACM-ENT 286997, 286998); idem, C.Z. Ancon, viii.1937, L. Cook (♀ CAS); Colón, Chagres, 04.viii. 1944, W.W. Middlekauff (♀ CAS); idem, Santa Rosa, viii.1936 (♀ CAS, 3♀ USNM); Darien, Rio Paya, Yellow Fever Camp, 06.vii.1958 (♀ INPA); idem, Rio Bayaro, Piutujos, Human bait Sta., 13.ix.1957, det. G. B. Fairchild, 1983 (♀ MPEG-DIP 12006432); idem, Maj, Rio Bayaro, Shannon trap, 18.viii.1952, det. G.B. Fairchild 1976 (♀ MPEG-DIP 12006433).