Quasi fisheri
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Acroceridae
Genus: Quasi
Name
Quasi fisheri Gillung & Winterton, 2011 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype male, MEXICO: Veracruz: Córdoba, 12-25.vii.1964, E. Fisher, D. Verity [18.896, -96.923] (CSCA).
Description
Medium body size (male body: 6.0 mm), male wing almost as long as the body (male wing: 5.3 mm); Head. Eyes, antennae, face and occiput brown, occiput as narrow as the ocellar tubercle, ocelli brown, antennal tubercle brown and smaller than pedicel. Thorax. Postpronotal lobes, mesothorax, scutellum, subscutellum and coxae light brown with darker longitudinal markings, legs and lower calypter yellowish brown, pulvilli yellow, tarsal claws black, haltere yellow, wing hyaline with yellow veins. Abdomen. Tergites brown, with lateral margins yellow, sternites dark brown.
Male genitalia. The genitalia were not dissected because the holotype is the only specimen available. Genitalic dissection is not necessary to diagnose the genus, since it can be differentiated based on external characters.
Etymology
This species is named in honor of Eric Fisher, the collector of the only known specimen of this unusual species.
