Periscelis striata ( Hennig, 1969 ), 2023

Freitas, Geovânia & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Scutops Coquillett, 1904 (Diptera: Periscelididae), Zootaxa 5244 (5), pp. 401-427 : 424

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scientific name	Periscelis striata ( Hennig, 1969 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Periscelis striata ( Hennig, 1969) comb. nov.

( Figs 20A–D View FIGURE 20 )

Scutops striatus Hennig, 1969: 601 View in CoL , 604 (Fig. 25); Prado, 1975: 2 (Neotropical catalog); Amorim & Vasconcelos, 1989: 42 (key); Mathis & Rung, 2011: 359 (world catalog).

Diagnosis. Frons yellow with pale sparse pruinescence and a brown spot above the middle, wide, occupying almost the entire width of the forehead and extending along the sides until close to the apex; dark brown ocellar triangle; yellow face with two small reniform spots above the middle, dense whitish pruinescence on the ventral margin of the face and more discrete lateral to the base of the antenna; gena, postgena and occiput yellow; scutum predominantly dark brown with one yellow stripe on dorsocentral line and one on notopleural region; pleura dark brown with one stripe on the ventral margin of the anepisternum; yellow scutellum with narrow brown basal spot; wing light brown with brown costal margin, basal part of the costal vein and Radius light yellow, M4 short, not reaching the wing margin; dm-m present, complete; CuA incomplete, cup cell absent.

Type material examined (pictures). Holotype female ( CNC). PERU, Madre de Dios, Avispas , 10–20.ix. 1962, 400 m (L. Pena).

References

Amorim, D. de S. & Vasconcelos, C. M. de (1989) First known Brazilian species of the genera Scutops and Neoscutops (Diptera: Periscelididae), with comments on the relationships among the species in each genus. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 84 (Supplement 4), 37 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0074 - 02761989000800012

Hennig, W. (1969) Neue Gattungen und Arten der Acalyptratae. The Canadian Entomologist, 101, 589 - 633. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 101589 - 6

Mathis, W. N. & Rung, A. (2011) World Catalog and Conspectus on the Family Periscelididae (Diptera: Schizophora). Myia, 12, 341 - 377.

Prado, A. P. (1975) Family Periscelididae. In: A Catalog of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Vol. 67 / Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, S o Paulo, 67, pp. 1 - 3.

Figures

FIGURE 20. Scutops striatus Hennig, 1969.A–D (holotype) (Periscelis striata [Hennig, 1969] comb. nov.). A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, frontal view; C. Head, lateral view; D, Thorax, dorsal view.