
Dohrniphora lugens Borgmeier (Figs 205–206, 301, 314) Dohrniphora lugens Borgmeier, 1960: 286, fig. 44. Holotype. ♂, BRAZIL: Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia (MZSP; not examined). Species recognition. This is a dark colored species with an elongate group of peglike setae. It has a diagnostic elongate-oval clear spot on the hind femur that separates it from similar species. Description. Body length: 2.34–2.66 mm. Head: Frons dark brown, second row of setae slightly concave. Flagellomere 1 round, brown. Palpus of normal size, yellow to orange. Thorax: Scutum dark brown. Scutellum dark brown, with 2 pairs of setae; anterior seta two-thirds length of posterior seta. Pleuron dark brown. Mean costal length 0.55 wing length, range 0.52–0.57. Halter yellow. Legs yellowish-brown, except apex of hind femur dark brown. Forecoxa in lateral view yellow. Foretibia with 4 dorsal setae. Foretarsomeres slender, elongate. Midcoxa dark brown. Hind coxa yellowish-brown. Hind coxal lobe yellow, large, rounded, forming median cuplike concavity (Fig. 314). Posterior face of hind femur with elongate triple to quadruple, expanding distally, row of peglike setae; more distally with elongate-oval clear spot slightly dorsal to ventral margin of hind femur (Figs 205–206, 301). Abdomen: Abdominal tergite 1 dark brown, tergites 2–6 dark brown. Venter of abdomen orange, with sparse setae. Male terminalia dark brown, except cercus yellow. Distribution. Argentina to Costa Rica. Material examined. 17♂ specimens from the following localities: ARGENTINA: Misiones: Reserva Vida Silvestre Urugua-í (LACM). BRAZIL: Santa Catarina: Nova Teutônia (including 1 paratype) (CNCI, USNM). COLOMBIA: Amazonas: PNN Amacayacu, 22 km NW Leticia (LACM, IAVH). COSTA RICA: Puntarenas: Las Alturas, Monteverde; San José: Braulio Carrillo NP, Zona Protectora El Rodeo, Zurquí de Moravia (LACM).
Published as part of Brown, Brian V. & Kung, Giar-Ann, 2010, 2699, pp. 1-142 in Zootaxa 2699 on pages 93-94
Insecta, Arthropoda, Dohrniphora lugens, Diptera, Animalia, Biodiversity, Phoridae, Dohrniphora, Taxonomy
Insecta, Arthropoda, Dohrniphora lugens, Diptera, Animalia, Biodiversity, Phoridae, Dohrniphora, Taxonomy
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