Drosophila neocordata Magalhães, 1956 (Fig. 16) Non-type material. Strain CG (Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil): 12 males dissected. Male terminalia. The dorso-ventral region of the epandrium is angular. The epandrium is covered with short and long epandrial bristles (Fig. 16E). The cercus is U-shaped, covered with cercal bristles (Fig. 16E). The surstyli is concave and has a row of 5 to 6 surstylar teeth arranged throughout the internal portion of each surstylus and a tuft of long surstylar bristles at the inferior region (Fig. 16E). Each surstylus of this species have a unique characteristic, not seen in other subgroups, the surstylar process. This structure is found connected to each surtylus and it has surstylar teeth at its ends (Fig. 16E). The hypandrium is small and it has a median gonocoxites, with the presence of a hypandrial bristle at each end (Fig. 16A). The aedeagus presents a pair of chitinous hooks in the frontal region of the aedeagal apex, which extend to the ventral region of the aedeagus body (Fig. 16A–D). There is a pair of long protuberances, serrated at the edge, arranged laterally, and fused to the aedeagus; we suggest that these protuberances can be the aedeagal sheath partly fused to the aedeagus body (Fig. 16B, C). The pregonites are more different, they seem to be fused into a single structure, and present two small pregonal bristles (Fig. 16B, C). The ventral postgonites are long, thin, and bifurcated in the middle region; they are also folded inward at their ends, which fit into the chitinous hooks (Fig. 16B–D). The pregonite and the ventral postgonites are connected to the phallapodeme (Fig. 16B–D). The phallapodeme is short and thin (Fig. 16B, D).

Published as part of Roman, Bruna Emilia & Madi-Ravazzi, Lilian, 2021, Male terminalia morphology of sixteen species of the Drosophila saltans group Sturtevant (Diptera, Drosophilidae), pp. 523-544 in Zootaxa 5061 (3) on page 540, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5061.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/5649958