Calycomyza grenadensis Zlobin, 1996

Calycomyza grenadensis Zlobin, 1996 View in CoL

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Calycomyza grenadensis Zlobin, 1996a: 153 View in CoL . — Martinez & Étienne 2002: 29.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Guyane • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Mitaraka , sampling site: MIT-E-savane roche 2; 02°13’59.8”N, 54°27’46.5”W; 471 m; open/partially opened areas; 13-20.VIII.2015; MT (6 m); Pierre-Henri Dalens leg.; sample code: MITARAKA/230 , sorted by M. Pollet; MNHN GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. — The distinctive characteristics of this species include the long strongly chitinized projection of the hind ventral lobe of the phallus ( Zlobin 1996a), prominent in the Mitaraka specimen ( Fig. 3C View FIG , arrow), the shape of the distiphallus with two well-sclerotized sclerites broadly separated at the base ( Fig. 3D View FIG ) and the shape of the ejaculatory apodeme with the blade only 2.3 × larger (at its widest point) than the stalk at midpoint ( Fig. 3B View FIG ).

DISTRIBUTION. — Grenada, French Guiana (new record).

HOST. — Unknown.

REMARKS

There are slight differences between the Mitaraka specimens and the original description of the species. They include the orbital plate darkened to upper ors only, continuing faintly on lateral margin to lower ors in male ( Fig. 1A View FIG ) (darkened to lower ors in original description) and the face darkened at base of antennae (face yellow in original description). Other characteristics worth mentioning, but not part of the original description, are the presence of three postsutural dc, including two well-developed and a much shorter anterior dc; and the mid tibia with three short lateral setae. Until now, this species was only known from the type material from Grenada. This species was previously identified as morphospecies Calycomyza Mit- 1 in Boucher & Pollet (2021).