Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge

Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge (Fig. 17) Nephochaetopteryx lopesi Dodge, 1968a: 281 (key), 285 (description of male). Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Angra dos Reis, Japuhyba [= Japuíba]. Other references: Pape (1996: 261; catalog). Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♁ (MNRJ): JAPUHYBA / ANGRA 23–3 – 940 / J. LANE E LOPES [print- ed and handwritten on rectangular white label bordered with black] // Holotype [printed on rectangular red label] // HOLOTYPE / Nephochaetopteryx / Dodge lopesi [printed and handwritten on rectangular white label bordered with red] // MNRJ / 2201 [printed and handwritten on rectangular white label]. [Holotype lacking head, fore legs and left mid leg, with terminalia extended.] Additional material examined. Brazil. Paraíba: Jo „o Pessoa, Mata do Buraquinho, 01.IX.2009, on pig carcass, leg. R. Farias (1 ♁, MPEG). Redescription. Male. Length = 4.5 mm (n = 2). Head. Fronto-orbital and parafacial plates, postocular strip, gena and postgena with golden microtomentum. Frontal vitta reddish-black with basal half reddish-brown. Six frontal setae. Palpus brown. Thorax. Chaetotaxy: dorsocentrals 2+4 (first two weak); intra-alars 2+2; supra-alars 1+3; anepisternals 5; merals 5. Mid femur with two median setae and without a differentiated posteroventral seta. Ctenidium consisting of four spines. Wing hyaline, with faint brown spot beginning in the terminal portion of vein R 1, filling the distal third of cell r 1 and the upper half of the distal half of cell r 2+3; vein R 4+5 setulose dorsally to crossvein r-m. Abdomen. Tergites brown with a band of golden microtomentum on anterior 4/5 of dorsal and lateral surfaces. Sternites 1 to 4 yellow, covered with yellowish setulae and with marginal setae. Terminalia. Sternite 5 brown, with a very shallow cleft, not surpassing the base of lobe; lobe rounded and with a tuft of short setulae; arm glossiform, curved posteriorly (Fig. 17E). Sternite 5 with small setulae restricted to posterior half (Fig. 17E). Cercus elongate and narrow in lateral view (Fig. 17A). Cercal prongs with pointed tips strongly convergent (Fig. 17B). Inner lateral margin of cercus without setulae and cercal base with long setae (Fig. 17A). Surstylus conical, with a small patch of setulae basally on posterior margin (Fig. 17A). Pregonite widened, with tip curved anteriorly, anterior margin with some pointed projections, posterior margin with small setae (Fig. 17C). Postgonite conical, with rounded tip slightly curved anteriorly and with a long seta on anterior margin (Fig. 17D). Basiphallus longer than wide, curved dorsally (Fig. 17F). Distiphallus club-shaped, with dorsal margin sinuous and apical margin rounded (Fig. 17F). Ventral margin sinuous with a thin finger-like projection (Fig. 17F). Vesica strongly angled, with bifid tip (Fig. 17F). Inner process of vesica longer than wide (Fig. 17F). Lateral and median styli short, about one-fourth of width of widest portion of the lateral wall of distiphallus, positioned medially in distiphallus (Fig. 17F). Median stylus with a projection basally (Fig. 17F). Female. Unknown. Distribution. NEOTROPICAL—Brazil (Paraíba, Rio de Janeiro). Remarks. This species differs from the others in the genus in having vesica with a bifid tip and anterior margin of pregonite with many pointed projections.
Published as part of Carvalho-Filho, Fernando Da Silva, Esposito, Maria Cristina & Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes De, 2021, Revision of Nephochaetopteryx Townsend, 1934 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), pp. 1-83 in Zootaxa 4928 (1) on pages 40-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4928.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4544406
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