Coquena stangei
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Acroceridae
Genus: Coquena
Name
Coquena stangei Schlinger sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
Holotype male: Top label: “El Solidad, Argentina/ 11 km. W Las Cejas/ Tucuman Prov./ IV-30 to V-13-1967/ L. Stange (malaise)” [26.895318°S, 64.835332°W]. Second label: “Genitalia IX-10-69/ Dissection No. 9/ by E.I. Schlinger”. Third label: bright green “ACROCERIDAE/ E.I. Schlinger/ Specimen #/ 013435”. Bottom label: red “HOLOTYPE ♂/ Coquena stangei/ Schlinger new species/ Det. E.I. Schlinger 2012” (CAS). Genitalia dissected and placed in glycerin in glass microvial on pin with specimen.
Paratypes
Four females, same data as holotype except: genitalia not dissected; EIS specimen numbers are: 013436, 013437, 013438, 013441; and with yellow paratype labels.
Description
Male holotype with medium body size (Fig. 11): 7.80 mm and wing shorter than body: 7.0 mm. Female with medium body size (Fig. 13): 6.7 ± 1.21 mm (6.0 - 7.5 mm, n= 4) and wing longer than the body: 7.8 ± 1.2 mm (7.0 - 8.5 mm, n= 4). Head. Eyes dark brown and densely covered with pale yellow pile (Figs 12, 14), occiput and ocellar tubercle dark brown and covered with yellow pile, ocelli light brown, frons dark brown with region adjacent to antennae yellow, scape and pedicel light brown with apex yellow, pedicel with light brown pile, flagellum light brown, male flagellum length ~2× height of the eye and petal-shaped, female flagellum length ½ the height of the eye and tapering to apex. Face dark brown with yellow pile, clypeus brown, bare and slightly longer than scape and pedicel combined, mouthparts pale yellow and strongly reduced. Thorax. Iridescent green and densely covered with long yellow pile. Coxae light brown, femora light brown with apical third yellow, tibia and tarsi light brown. Lower calypter transparent covered with dense yellow pile, halter yellow. Wing. Transparent (clear or pale brown), veins brown (Fig. 13). Abdomen. Tergites iridescent brown densely covered with yellow pile; sternites brown and densely covered with yellow pile.
Etymology
This species is named in honor of Dr. Lionel A. Stange, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, who collected the type series.
Original Description
- Schlinger, E; Gillung, J; Borkent, C; 2013: New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera ZooKeys, 270: 59-93. doi
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