Dasyhelea curacaoensis Grogan & Díaz & Spinelli & Ronderos 2019, n. sp. ...

Dasyhelea curacaoensis n. sp. (Figs. 31–41, 64–66) Diagnosis. The only Neotropical species of the mutabilis group with the following combination of characters. Males with a very short antennal flagellum (length 0.40–0.47 mm); antennal ratio 0.91–1.21; gonostyus moderately short with slender rounded apex; right gonocoxal apodeme broadly fused with paramere, left apodeme not fused with paramere; apical section of paramere J-shaped, tapering distally, tip sharply pointed; aedeagus with deep basal arch, posterolateral arms with pointed apices, without mesal subapical toothlike process. Females wit... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Grogan, William L.
Díaz, Florentina
Spinelli, Gustavo R.
Ronderos, Maria M.
Dokumenttyp: Taxonomic treatment
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Verlag/Hrsg.: Zenodo
Schlagwörter: Biodiversity / Taxonomy / Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Ceratopogonidae / Dasyhelea / Dasyhelea curacaoensis
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28974125
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457144

Dasyhelea curacaoensis n. sp. (Figs. 31–41, 64–66) Diagnosis. The only Neotropical species of the mutabilis group with the following combination of characters. Males with a very short antennal flagellum (length 0.40–0.47 mm); antennal ratio 0.91–1.21; gonostyus moderately short with slender rounded apex; right gonocoxal apodeme broadly fused with paramere, left apodeme not fused with paramere; apical section of paramere J-shaped, tapering distally, tip sharply pointed; aedeagus with deep basal arch, posterolateral arms with pointed apices, without mesal subapical toothlike process. Females with very short antennal flagellum (length 0.31–0.33 mm), flagellomeres 2–12 moniliform, 13 slightly elongate with abruptly tapered apex, antennal ratio very small (0.65–0.71); wing broad with very short costa, costal ratio 0.23–0.25; subgenital plate very broad, ovoid with small narrow lumen, posteromedian margin rounded, posterolateral arms stout, nearly straight; spermatheca small (35 x 28 µm), ovoid, with numerous ... : Published as part of Grogan, William L., Díaz, Florentina, Spinelli, Gustavo R. & Ronderos, Maria M., 2019, The Biting Midges of the Caribbean island Curaçao (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) I. Species in the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer, pp. 301-325 in Zootaxa 4700 (3) on pages 317-319, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3548509 ...