Drosophila (Drosophila) comosa Wheeler

Fig. 9A-H

Drosophila (Drosophila) comosa Wheeler, 1968: 432

Male holotype.

Double mounted to a point, labelled: "Golfito Costa Rica / WB Heed HL Carson Jun Jul 1959 / HOLOTYPE Drosophila comosa Whlr. [pink label] / Drosophila comosa Wheeler", deposited in NMNH.

Male terminalia.

Epandrium (Fig. 9A) distally microtrichose; upper setae absent; ca. 19 lower setae; ventral lobe distally sinuous, partially covering surstylus. Cercus mostly microtrichose, anteromedially fused to epandrium. Surstylus not microtrichose, with about 9 long, sharply pointed prensisetae, 12 outer and 15 inner setae. Decasternum as in Fig. 9B. Hypandrium (Fig. 9C) remarkably developed, twice as long as epandrium, anterior margin convex; posterior hypandrial process and dorsal arch absent; gonopod not microtrichose, devoid of seta, submedially bearing a circular depression adjacent to inner margin; connected to paraphysis by membranous tissue. Aedeagus (Fig. 9D-H) rounded at tip, subdistally expanded ventrad and with a pair of spurs pointed anterad (Fig. 9E-H), dorsally convex at middle and shallowly concave beyond middle; dorsal cleft ca. 1/2 length of aedeagus (Fig. 9D, E); paraphysis conspicuously narrow and curved laterad, not microtrichose, connected to gonopod by membranous tissue, distally double-walled and bearing one setula at the very tip (Fig. 9F). Aedeagal apodeme about 1/3 aedeagus length and fused to it, rod-shaped, posterodorsally bifid (Fig. 9E). Ventral rod vestigial, bifid (Fig. 9G, H).