Pachylophus ismayi
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Chloropidae
Genus: Pachylophus
Name
Pachylophus ismayi Deeming, 2018 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Pachylophus ismayi Deeming, John C., 2018, Zootaxa 4482: 12-14.
Description
Description. Male. Head: deeper than long; frontal triangle with base slightly longer than sides, reaching four fifths of the way to anterior margin of frons, which bears a line of silvery dust along eye margin and scarcely projects beyond the eyes; face, parafacial and gena silvery grey dusted, the latter without any shiny area and in depth equal to one third of the width of the face; inner vertical seta much stronger and one and a half times as long as the outer; apex of pedicel and dorsum of postpedicel infuscate, postpedicel short, rounded, its dorsoapical angle a right angle. Thorax short with scutum convex, the scutellum apically rounded with its dorsal surface flat and slightly rugose; scutum and scutellum subshining through weak grey dust, the dorsocentral lines and a broad band extending across lower notopleuron to wing base more heavily silvery grey dusted; postpronotal lobe shining on all but its upper margin; notopleural seta long and strong, almost as long as the pair of widely-separated, cruciate scutellar marginals, the postalar somewhat shorter and the prescutellar dorsocentral very short and weak; pleura shining from anterior margin to the posterior one third of anepimeron, apart from some fine dusting amid the long pale hairs on ventral surface of katepisternum. Legs faintly grey dusted with hind tibial organ distinct, occupying almost two fifths of its length and with the compact pilosity it bears blackish grey. Wing brownish hyaline with veins brown, but costa yellowish from base to humeral crossvein. Abdomen with tergites yellowish brown and subshining through brown dust. Length about 1.9mm, of wing 2.2mm. Female resembling male in all characters but those of the postabdomen. A dissected female from Morogoro was found to contain a single larva which is as long as its abdomen.
Materials Examined
Tanzania Material J. W. Ismay Tanzania Material J. W. Ismay Kenya Wangeru Kenya A Spencer Kenya Keekorok Lodge Kenya A Freidberg Kenya Nature Reserve Kenya Tsavo National Park Kenya Tsavo National Park Kenya Tsavo National Park Kenya Tsavo National Park Tschirnhaus Zimbabwe Harare J. W. Ismay
Taxon Treatment
- Deeming, John C.; 2018: A revision of the Afrotropical species of Pachylophus Loew (Diptera: Chloropidae) and some related Ovoviviparous genera, Zootaxa 4482: 12-14. doi
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