Chonocephalus dominicanus Borgmeier, 1967

Disney, R. H. L., 2008, Review of Neotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1772 (1), pp. 1-54 : 16-18

Chonocephalus dominicanus Borgmeier

( Figs 43–48 )

Chonocephalus dominicanus Borgmeier, 1967: 206 . Male holotype, Dominica, B. W. I., Clarke Hall (USNM) [Examined]

Chonocephalus similis Collin, 1912 (part): nec Brues, 1905.

Chonocephalus punctifascia auctt. nec Borgmeier, 1935: 257.

Chonocephalus wirthorum Disney, 1980: 363 . Disney, 2002: 18.

This species has been transported across the world to the Seychelles ( Disney, 2005).

Material. 6 males, 15 females, Brazil, Amazonia, Manaus , ex old bread fruit ( Atrocarous altilis (Z.) Frost), M. Otronen ( CUMZ) . 1 male, Colombia, Rio Rapaso , March 1963, V. H. Lee ( USNM) ; 1 male, Costa Rica, Finca, La Lola, m. Siguirrea , 23 April 1982, A. M. Young, ex pod ( USNM) ; 1 male, Cauca, Isla Gorgona , 2.9 o N, 78.18 o W, Malaise trap, 15 March 2000, B. Brown, G. Kung & M. Sharkey ( LACM) . 1 male, Costa Rica, Puerto Viejo, 89 m, 10 o 26’N, 83 o 59’W, from bivouac of the army ant Eciton lucanoides Emery , 26 May 1965, C. W. Rettenmeyer ( Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecti- cut, CUMZ, 30-134) . 2 males from type locality, Dominica, 10–15 September 1964, T. J. Spilman ( USNM) ; 5 males, St Paul Parish, Springfield Plantation , ex Heliconia caribea , 21 May J. A. Korecki ( CUMZ. LACM, 26-82) . 2 males, Ecuador, Quevedo Pichilinguo , April 1968, reared rotting veg. ( USNM) ; 2 males, Rio Palenque , carrion trap, 25 April 1979, S. A. Marshall ( DEBU) . Galapagos Islands ( Ecuador) (Disney & Sinclair, in press) . 2 males, Panama, Gamboa, C. Z., Pipeline Road , July 1967, W. & M. Wirth, reared from Carludovica (USNM) ; 1 female, same data but reared from Heliconia mariae (USNM) . 1 male, Trinidad, Cumaca , 28 July 1998, ex bromeliad ( USNM) ; 15 females, Plum Mitan Road, nr Mt Harris , 24 July 1998 ( USNM) ; 3 males, Simla Research Station, Arima Valley , Malaise trap, E. G. Hancock, 3–14 July 2006 ( CUMZ, 4-156) .

Natural history. Apart from the rearings from the rotting spadices of Carludovica palmata Ruiz & Pay (Cyclanthacaeae) and Heliconia mariae Hook. F. (Heliconiaceae) ; and from bread fruit ( Artocarpus altilis (Parkinson) Fosberg , Moraceae ).

Figures

FIGURES 43–44. Chonocephalus dominicanus male, details of hypopygium from below: (43) left side of hypopygium and epandrial processes of right side; (44) right gonopod. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 45–46. Chonocephalus dominicanus male, hypopygium: (45) left face; (46) right face tilted a little dorsally. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 47–48. Chonocephalus dominicanus female: (47) whole fly from above; (48) sternite 8, furca and spermatheca. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.