Mesembrinella decrepita Séguy, 1925

Whitworth, Terry L. & Yusseff-Vanegas, Sohath, 2019, A revision of the genera and species of the Neotropical family Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea), Zootaxa 4659 (1), pp. 1-146 : 79

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Mesembrinella decrepita Séguy, 1925
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Mesembrinella decrepita Séguy, 1925

( Figs 39–40 View FIGURES 39–40 , 129–130 View FIGURES 125–134 , 207 View FIGURES 202–208 , 250 View FIGURES 239–251 , 293 View FIGURES 288–293 , 337 View FIGURES 326–349 , 379 View FIGURES 370–400 , 422 View FIGURES 411–423 , 488 View FIGURE 488 )

Mesembrinella decrepita Séguy, 1925: 195 . Holotype male (MNHN), not examined. Type locality: Colombia.

Huascaromusca decrepita: Peris & Mariluis (1984: 255) ; Kosmann et al. (2013: 77); Wolff & Kosmann (2016: 867) View Cited Treatment ; Marinho et al. (2017: tab. 1); Velásquez et al. (2017: 108).

Mesembrinella decrepita: Cerretti et al. (2017 : tab. 2).

Diagnosis. A medium-sized blue-black fly averaging 9.6 mm (9–10/5) in length. Postpronotal lobe with 3x 3 setae; subcostal sclerite bare; femora pale orange. Male frons about 0.074 of head width at narrowest; terminalia distinctive, with broad cerci in posterior view ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 39–40 ). Female T6 distinctive, with broad division midway and of OV shape; T7 and T8 narrowed midway ( Fig. 293 View FIGURES 288–293 ).

Redescription. Male. Frons broad, 0.074 (0.07–0.08/5) of head width at narrowest, almost as broad as width of first flagellomere; fronto-orbital dark with silvery tomentum; frontal setae ascending about 60% of distance to vertex; frontal vitta: upper 2/3 black, lower 1/3 orange; parafacial orange with pale tomentum; gena orange with horizontal row of stout dark setae and scattered smaller dark setae; postgena orange with long pale setae; occiput dark with pale tomentum and pale setae; median occipital sclerite shiny black; antenna orange; arista tan; palpus typical; eye with median facets slightly larger than lateral facets; ocellar triangle medium-sized, anterior ocellus about 2x size of posterior ocelli; supravibrissal setae on facial ridge ascending about 1/5 of distance to antennal base.

Thorax. Dorsum and pleural areas blue-black with whitish tomentum; chaetotaxy: ac variable, most commonly 1:1, then 2:1, then 0:1, sometimes a seta missing on one side, dc 2:3, ia 0, ph 1, ppn 3x 3, kat 2:1, meral setae typical, 1 pair crossed ap, 0 sa or lat, 1 stout bas, 1 weak pb, 1 disc; subscutellum moderately developed; spiracles orange, mediumsized. Wing hyaline, with section IV 0.17 of section III; subcostal sclerite bare; basicosta and tegula orange; calypters brown with brown rims; rim of upper calypter with short dark setae, rim of lower calypter with long pale setae.

Abdomen. T1+2–T3 shiny blue with whitish tomentum, T4–5 shiny blue with little tomentum; T1+2–3 with pair of lateral marginal setae; T4–5 each with row of marginal setae, the row on T5 weaker; disc of T5 with middorsal horizontal row of stout setae, rest of disc with sparse, fine setae. Terminalia. In lateral view surstylus slender, curving slightly forward, cercus with apical hook ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 39–40 ); in posterior view, base of cerci broad, tapering to divergent tips ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 39–40 ); phallus in lateral view with epiphallus curved backward, basiphallus extended anteroventrally ( Fig. 129 View FIGURES 125–134 ); in dorsal view, hypophallic lobes very narrow ( Fig. 130 View FIGURES 125–134 ); T6, STS7+8, pre- and postgonite, ejaculatory sclerite and ST6 as in Fig. 207 View FIGURES 202–208 ; sternites as in Fig. 250 View FIGURES 239–251 .

Female. Similar to male except frons 0.245 (0.23–0.25/4) of head width at narrowest. T6 of RV shape, broadly divided midway, T7 continuous, weakened and translucent midway, T8 broad with suture midway ( Fig. 293 View FIGURES 288–293 ). ST6–8 and hypoproct as in Fig. 337 View FIGURES 326–349 ; spermathecae filiform ( Fig. 379 View FIGURES 370–400 ); ST1–5 as in Fig. 422 View FIGURES 411–423 .

Material examined. Venezuela, Distrito Federal. 1 ♂*, 1 ♀ ♦* ( TLW378 ) , 7 ♂♂, Parque Nac. Avila , 1800 m, 28.ii.1971, G. & M. Wood ( CNC) . Lara. 1 ♂♦ ( TLW258 ) , 1 ♀ ♦ ( TLW257 ) , 8 km. S Sanare, Yacambu Natl. Park 1600 m, 27.xii.1985, P. Kovarik & R. Jones ( TAMU) . Merida. 1 ♂*, 10 km E. Tobay, 2000 m, 28.iv.1981, H. Townes ( CNC) . Yaracuy. 1 ♂, Corceorote Sector El Candelo , 1650 m, 10°36ʹ888ʺN–68°82ʹ628ʺW, 17–20.x.2001, T. Interceptacion, R. Briceño, A. Chacán, J. Clavijo, F. Díaz, R. Paz, E. Arcaya & L. Joly ( MJMO) ; 1 ♂♦ ( TLW259 ) , 1 ♀, Edo. Lara, P.N. Yacambu , “El Blanquito”, 9°63N, 69°53W, 29.i.2007, A. Martínez ( MJMO) .

Distribution. Venezuela. Bonatto (2001) also listed it from Colombia. The listing of this species from Mexico in Marinho et al. (2017: tab. 1) was an error (M. Marinho, pers. comm.).

Remarks. The only specimens examined during this study were from Venezuela. Four specimens ( TLW 252– 259, TLW 378) were barcoded, and they clustered together ( Fig. 488 View FIGURE 488 ).

Bonatto, S. (2001) Revis o e analise cladistica de Mesembrinellidae stat. restaur. (Diptera: Oestroidea). Tese de Doutorado, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, XII + 146 pp. [Unpublished doctoral thesis]

Cerretti, P., Stireman, J. O. III., Pape, T., O'Hara, J. E., Marinho, M. A. T., Rognes, K. & Grimaldi, D. A. (2017) First fossil of an oestroid fly (Diptera: Calyptratae: Oestroidea) and the dating of oestroid divergences. PLoS ONE, 12 (8), e 0182101. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 018210 1

Kosmann, C., Pinto de Mello, R., Harterreiten-Souza, E. S. & Pujol-Luz, J. R. (2013) A list of current valid blow fly names (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Americas south of Mexico with key to the Brazilian species. EntomoBrasilis, 6, 74 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.12741 / ebrasilis. v 6 i 1.26 6

Marinho, M. A. T., Wolff, M., Ramos-Pastrana, Y., Azeredo-Espin, A. M. L. de & Amorim, D. d. S. (2017) The first phylogenetic study of Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea) based on molecular data: clades and congruence with morphological characters. Cladistics, 33 (2), 134 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / cla. 1215 7

Peris, S. V. & Mariluis, J. C. (1984) Notes on Mesembrinellidae. Eos, 60, 251 - 265.

Seguy, E. (1925) Espeeces nouvelles du genre Mesembrinella G. T. Encyclopedie Entomologique, serie B II: Diptera, 2, 195 - 196.

Velasquez, Y., Martinez-Sanchez, A. I., Thomas, A. & Rojo, S. (2017) Checklist and distribution maps of the blow flies of Venezuela (Diptera, Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae). ZooKeys, 645, 103 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 645.697 2

Wolff, M. & Kosmann, C. (2016) Families Calliphoridae and Mesembrinellidae. In: Wolff, M., Nihei, S. S. & Carvalho, C. J. B. de (Eds.), Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa, 4122 (1), 856 - 875. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4122.1.7 2

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FIGURE 488. Neighbor-joining tree of COI DNA barcode sequences of specimens and species of Mesembrinellidae, using K2P distances and generated in BOLD; species names on the tree are followed by BOLD accession number, voucher number, country of origin, number of sequenced base pairs and number of ambiguous nucleotides.

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FIGURES 39–40. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli of Mesembrinella decrepita Séguy. 39. Left lateral view. 40. Posterior view.

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FIGURES 125–134. Left lateral and dorsal views of phallus of Mesembrinella spp. 125–126. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 127–128. M. bolivar (Bonatto). 129–130. M. decrepita Séguy 131–132. M. lara (Bonatto). 133–134. M. nigrocoerulea sp. nov.

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FIGURES 202–208. Male terminalia of Mesembrinella spp. (a = T6, STS7+8; b = pre- and postgonite; c = ejaculatory sclerite; d = ST6; e = hypandrium). 202. M. spicata Aldrich. 203. M. epandrioaurantia sp. nov. 204. M. woodorum sp. nov. 205. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 206. M. bolivar (Bonatto). 207. M. decrepita Séguy. 208. M. lara (Bonatto).

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FIGURES 239–251. Male sternites of Lanella spp. 239. L. fusconitida sp. nov. 240. L. fuscosquamata sp. nov. 241. L. nigripes Guimar„es 242. L. perisi (Mariluis). 243. L. purpurea sp. nov. 244. M. latifrons (Mello). 245. M. mexicana sp. nov. 246. M. spicata Aldrich. 247. M. epandrioaurantia sp. nov. 248. M. woodorum sp. nov. 249. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 250. M. decrepita Séguy. 251. M. lara (Bonatto) (ST5 only).

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FIGURES 288–293. Female terminalia (T6–T8, epiproct, cerci) of Mesembrinella spp., dorsal view. 288. M. guaramacalensis sp. nov. 289. M. mexicana sp. nov. 290. M. spicata Aldrich. 291. M. epandrioaurantia sp. nov. 292. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 293. M. decrepita Séguy.

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FIGURES 326–349. ST6–8 and hypoproct of Mesembrinellidae. 326. Laneella fusconitida sp. nov. 327. L. fuscosquamata sp. nov. 328. L. nigripes Guimar„es. 329. L. perisi (Mariluis). 330. L. purpurea sp. nov. 331. Mesembrinella latifrons (Mello). 332. M. guaramacalensis sp. nov. 333. M. mexicana sp. nov. 334. M. spicata Aldrich. 335. M. epandrioaurantia sp. nov. 336. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 337. M. decrepita Séguy. 338. M. lara (Bonatto). 339. M. nigrocoerulea sp. nov. 340. M. purpurata Aldrich. 341. M. semiflava Aldrich. 342. M. uniseta Aldrich. 343. M. violacea sp. nov. 344. M. vogelsangi (Mello). 345. M. zurquiensis sp. nov. 346. M. apollinaris Séguy. 347. M. batesi Aldrich. 348. M. bellardiana Aldrich. 349. M. benoisti (Séguy).

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FIGURES 370–400. Spermathecae of Mesembrinellidae. 370. L. fusconitida sp. nov. 371. L. fuscosquamata sp. nov. 372. L. nigripes Guimar„es. 373. L. perisi (Mariluis). 374. L. purpurea sp. nov. 375. Mesembrinella guaramacalensis sp. nov. 376. M. mexicana sp. nov. 377. M. spicata Aldrich. 378. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 379. M. decrepita Séguy. 380. M. lara (Bonatto). 381. M. nigrocoerulea sp. nov. 382. M. purpurata Aldrich. 383. M. semiflava Aldrich. 384. M. uniseta Aldrich. 385. M. vogelsangi (Mello). 386. M. zurquiensis sp. nov. 387. M. apollinaris Séguy. 388. M. batesi Aldrich. 389. M. bellardiana Aldrich. 390. M. benoisti (Séguy). 391. M. bicolor (Fabricius). 392. M. brunnipes Surcouf. 393. M. bullata sp. nov. 394. M. chantryi sp. nov. 395. M. currani Guimar„es. 396. M. cyaneicincta (Surcouf). 397. M. flavicrura Aldrich. 398. M. longicercus sp. nov. 399. M. peregrina Aldrich. 400. M. pictipennis Aldrich.

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FIGURES 411–423. Female sternites of Mesembrinellidae. 411. Laneella fusconitida sp. nov. (LACM). 412. L. fuscosquamata sp. nov. 413. L. nigripes Guimar„es. 414. L. perisi (Mariluis). 415. L. purpurea sp. nov. 416. Mesembrinella latifrons (Mello). 417. M. guaramacalensis sp. nov. 418. M. mexicana sp. nov. 419. M. spicata Aldrich. 420. M. epandrioaurantia sp. nov. 421. M. aeneiventris (Wiedemann). 422. M. decrepita Séguy. 423. M. lara (Bonatto).

RV

Collection of Leptospira Strains

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

TAMU

Texas A&M University

MJMO

Universidad Centro Occidental, Decanato de Agronomia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Calliphoridae

SubFamily

Mesembrinellinae

Genus

Mesembrinella