Puliciphora bicolor Borgmeier & Schmitz

Disney, R. Henry L., 2003, Seven new species of New World Puliciphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) with a new key to the Neotropical species, Zootaxa 162, pp. 1-22 : 7

Puliciphora bicolor Borgmeier & Schmitz

( Figs 6 and 21)

Puliciphora bicolor Borgmeier & Schmitz, 1923: 140 .

The type locality is Brazil, Petrópolis.

Material

12 females, BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro, January 1922 (T. Borgmeier ­ I, Museum Koenig, Bonn and CUMZ ­ 27­99). 1 female, COLOMBIA, Valle del Cauca, Bosque Yataco, 1575 m, 23 January 1989, W. P. Mackay ( CUMZ ­ 18­67).

Natural history

Females of this species have been recorded in colonies of the termites Kalotermes sp. and Nasutitermes spp, including N. ephratae (Holmgren) ( Disney, 1994) .

Figures

FIGURES 3 ­ 6. Puliciphora females, abdominal tergites 4 ­ 6: (3) P. borinquenensis; (4) P. brachymyrmecis; (5) P. cacaulandiae; (6) P. b i c o l o r. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.