Chonocephalus murallaensis, Disney, 2008

Disney, R. H. L., 2008, Review of Neotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1772 (1), pp. 1-54 : 31-32

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1772.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5124087

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scientific name

Chonocephalus murallaensis
status

sp. nov.

Chonocephalus murallaensis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 93–95 View FIGURES 93–95 )

The name refers to type locality.

Male. Postpedicel longer than its greatest breadth. Left side of epandrium as Fig. 93 View FIGURES 93–95 , left gonopod reduced to a small lobe, with a pair of bristles, and left lobe of hypandrium as Fig. 94 View FIGURES 93–95 , right lobe of hypandrium as Fig. 95 View FIGURES 93–95 . Wing 1.3–1.4 mm long. Costal index 0.53. Vein 3 with a terminal vesicle which extends beyond with tip of costa. All tibiae are brown.

Material. Holotype male, Honduras, Olancho, PN La Muralla, 15 km NW of La Union, 15.12 o N, 86.75 o W, flight interception trap, January 1995, R. Cordero ( LACM, 26-67) GoogleMaps . Paratypes, 2 males as holotype except one ( CUMZ) .

Gallery Image

FIGURES 93–95. Chonocephalus murallaensis male, details of hypopygium: (93) left side of epandrium; (94) left gonopod and left lobe of hypandrium; (95) right lobe of hypandrium. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

CUMZ

Cameroon University, Museum of Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Chonocephalus