Kelloggina travassosi Lane & d’Andretta, 1956

Gil-Azevedo, Leonardo Henrique & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2021, An illustrated catalogue of the types of Blephariceridae (Diptera) in the collection of Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 61, pp. 1-19 : 15-18

Kelloggina travassosi Lane & d’Andretta, 1956 ( Fig. 13 )

Lane & d’Andretta (1956: 202, fig. 16). Hogue (1971: 6).

Types in MZSP: HOLOTYPE ( Fig. 13 ): 1 ♂ (# MZ 006741) from Brazil, SP, Santo Antônio do Pinhal , Eugênio Lefevre, 1,200 m a.s.l., II/1953, Lauro Travassos Filho coll.

Diagnosis: Male ( Fig. 13 ): General coloration black. Head: Front and clypeus dark brown. Eyes broadly contiguous and narrowly separated above; upper portion quite larger than the lower one. Antenna with 14 segments, scape, pedicel and flagellum black. Proboscis distinctly longer than head. Palpus with four black segments. Thorax: Pronotum black. Scutum black, with 1+1 thin antero-lateral yellow stripes. Scutellum yellow. Pleura dark brown with large yellow marks. Legs: Fore coxa orange, mid coxa orange and black, and hind coxa black. Trochanters yellow, femora and tibiae yellow at base and darker apically, tarsi light brown. Hind tibia with two spurs. Hind last tarsal segment with a bristly basal enlargement. Wing hyaline, with costal cell yellowish. Vein m-m absent.

Distribution: BRAZIL: SP (Santo Antônio do Pinhal).

Remarks: Female unknown.Lane & d’Andretta (1956) cit- ed holotype from (confirmed on the label): “Campos do Jordão, Eugênio Lefévre (1,200 m. alt.), ii.1953 (Travassos, col.)”, but Eugênio Lefevre train station belongs to the Santo Antônio do Pinhal municipality and not to Campos do Jordão municipality.

Figures

Figure 13. Holotype male of Kelloggina travassosi Lane & d’Andretta, 1956: (A) Habitus, lateral view; (B) Habitus, dorsal view; (C) Wing; (D) Head, frontal view; (E) Male terminalia;(F) Labels.Scale bars:A, C = 2 mm; B = 1 mm;D-E = 0.5 mm.