Rachicerus victori Pujol-Luz, 2025

Rachicerus victori Pujol-Luz , new species

( Figs 16–18 View FIGURES 16–18 )

Diagnosis. Brownish body with blackish terminalia; Femora, tibiae and first tarsomeres with light and dark brown stripes; antenna with slender, spoon-shaped pectinate flagellomeres.

Measurements: body length: 6.6 mm; antenna: 1.3 mm; number of antennal flagellomeres: 17; wings: 6.5 mm. Head: hemispherical, wider than thorax; front flat, shining brown, with two longitudinal ridges running from ocellar plate and converging on a suture that divides antennal plate in half; striated integument between ridges; frontal plate large with small whitish setae (pruinosity like) in inferior margin around antennae; fronto-orbital plate depressed and bare ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 16–18 ). Compound eyes dichoptic, reniform and bare; vertex with ocellar triangle developed, black; ocellus brownish ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 16–18 ). Occiput well developed and very pilose. Palps brownish and 2-segmented. Labellum brownish, membranous with elongate setae. Antennae elongate more than two times greater than width of head, with 17 pectinate spoon-shaped flagellomeres ( Figs. 16 – 18 View FIGURES 16–18 ). Thorax: predominantly dark brown and pilose; postpronotal lobe brownish; disc of thorax with dense pilosity; anepimerom and laterotergites entirely bare; scutellum brownish, with sparse pilosity ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16–18 ). Wings: hyaline, inconspicuous pterostigma between veins Sc and R 1; R S stem curved upwards before bifurcation of radial sectors; halters brownish. Legs: coxae, trochanters, femurs and tibiae brownish, posterior 1 ⁄ 2 of femurs and tibiae brownish yellow; first tarsomeres whitish; empodia pulvilliform ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16–18 ). Abdomen: entirely brownish with dark brownish to black terminalia, with dense pilosity; terminalia conical ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16–18 ).

Female. Unknown.

Etymology: This name is given to honor my beloved son Victor.

Geographical distribution. BRAZIL, State of São Paulo.

Type material. The male HOLOTYPE is housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo ( MZUSP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, labeled: S.[ão] Paulo, S. [ão] Roque, J. Lane col., XII.[19]46 [white label]/ Holótipo [red label]/ MZ053525 [white label]. The holotype is in good condition, only missing the right antenna and the lack of the right fore leg .