Scipopus (Scipopus) striatithorax Hennig, 1934

Lindsay, Kate & Marshall, Stephen A., 2023, A revision of Scipopus Enderlein including the subgenera Scipopus s. str., Phaeopterina Frey and Parascipopus subgen. nov. (Diptera, Micropezidae, Taeniapterinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 904, pp. 1-189 : 81

Scipopus (Scipopus) striatithorax Hennig, 1934

Fig. 33

Scipopus striatithorax Hennig, 1934: 326 .

Scipopus striatithorax – Aczél 1949: 342 (catalog). — Steyskal 1968: 48.16 (catalog). — Ferro & de Carvalho 2014: 60 (listed).

Differential diagnosis

Scipopus (Scipopus) striatithorax resembles S. (S.) diversus in having a dull, orange epicephalon and an at least partially white first fore tarsomere, but differs in the distinct pale brown median vitta with a silvery-bluish sheen on the scutum, which also differentiates it from all other species in Scipopus s. str.

Type material examined

Holotype (examined and photographed in Berlin, 2002)

BRAZIL • 1 ♀; Minas Gerais; Fruhstorfer leg.; MNBG.

Description

LENGTH. Unknown.

HEAD. Clypeus light brown. Frontal vitta dull, orange, microtrichose. Epicephalon dull, orange, microtrichose, not clearly delineated from upper frontal vitta. Paracephalon light brown, outer portions slightly convex. All head chaetotaxy well-developed.

THORAX. Scutum dark brown with wide, pale brown median vitta overlayed with silvery-blue sheen. Female cervical sclerite very slightly convex medially. Postpronotal lobe dark brown. Notopleuron dark brown with anterior and ventral pale microtrichosity. Pleuron dark brown with the following microtrichosity: entirely white on proepisternum, white on proepimeron, with brown line medially, white on anteroventral ½ of anepisternum, with ventral corner and remainder brown, mostly white on katepisternum, with brown ventral and posterodorsal spots, white with brown median spot on katatergite. Legs brown, first fore tarsomere at least ¾ white dorsally, hind tarsomere 1 almost entirely white. Wing uniformly brown infuscate.

FEMALE ABDOMEN. T1 with fine, long, white setae. Pleuron pale grey, P1, dorsal half of P2–6 dark brown. Terminalia unknown (physical specimen unavailable for dissection).

MALE ABDOMEN. Unknown (physical specimen unavailable for dissection).

Remarks

This species is known only from the holotype.

Distribution

Brazil ( Steyskal 1968).

Figures

Fig. 33. Scipopus (Scipopus) striatithorax Hennig, 1943, holotype, ♀ (MLUH). A. Head and thorax, dorsal view. B. Habitus.