Hendelia masneri, Lonsdale, Owen & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011

Lonsdale, Owen & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011, Revision of the New World Hendelia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae), Zootaxa 2748, pp. 1-17 : 8

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.201850
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6193478
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF6987A7-452C-901F-1FF8-FC4EFB443859
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hendelia masneri
status	sp. nov.

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Hendelia masneri View in CoL spec. nov.

( Figs 11–13 View FIGURES 11 – 16 )

Description. Male. Body length 4.2mm. Bristles black. Anterior and posterior fronto-orbitals half length of middle fronto-orbital. Upper bristle on pedicel three times longer than ventral bristle (two times in other species). Two well developed postsutural dorsocentral bristles with one small bristle in front of anterior dorsocentral. One minute and one small lateral scutellar bristle. Head mostly yellow; distal 2/3 of first flagellomere brown; frons brown posterolaterally; face light brown with upper 2/3 pilose; gena white with lower margin and anterodorsal corner brown; clypeus brown medially. Gena with small, brown, rounded and smooth process on posterior margin, with lower corner of eye emarginate around process. Thorax yellow. Legs yellow except as follows: fore femur brown apically and mid femur light brown apically; apices of tibiae brown (darkest on fore tibia and lightest on hind tibia); fore tarsi brown with white band on first segment from basal 1/5 to distal ¼; mid and hind tarsi with tarsomeres 4 and 5 light brown. Abdomen brown with epandrium, surstylus, cerci and sternites 1 and 2 yellow. Wing with dark distal and medial bands connected along costal margin; R2+3 sinuate.

Male terminalia. ( Figs 11–13 View FIGURES 11 – 16 ) Similar to those of H. kinetrolicros , but surstylus triangular in outline (apex rounded) and directed medially (ie. surstyli pointing towards each other).

Female. Unknown.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the collector of the holotype, Dr. L. Masner.

Holotype. COSTA RICA. Puntarenas: Monteverde Res., along creek, 1550m, 18.iii.1996, L. Masner (1ɗ, INBC).

Comments. Hendelia masneri is much paler than the brownish-red H. kinetrolicros , a closely related species with similar genitalia. Hendelia masneri can also be distinguished from similar species by its small and broadly rounded male genal process. Specimens of H. mirabilis with a similar unsegmented genal process differ from H. masneri as follows: notum and pleuron vittate and with orange tint; genal process longer than wide (when present); face larger and buccal cavity not angled anteriorly; fore and hind femora predominantly brown (faded medially on fore femur and faded dorsoapically and posteromedially on hind femur); fore tibia dark brown on basal half and white on distal half; mid and hind tibiae dark brown with yellow base; frons brown posterolaterally.