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Anapausis mourei Amorim & Balbi, 2006

Thu, 10/09/2008 - 18:30 — Dalton S Amorim
Diagnosis: 

The female of A. mourei sp. nov. can be immediately recognized by the large, tooth-like, well sclerotized projection mesally on T8+9.

Valid Genus: 
Anapausis
Species epithet: 
mourei
Author: 
Amorim & Balbi
Year: 
2006
Page: 
18
Other Information: 

Holotype female, MZSP

Head: 

Head elliptical, covering posterior 3/4 of occiput, microtrichia covering posterior half; eye-bridge complete; flagellum with 8 articles, single regular whorl of setae per flagellomere except for distal one, with 2 whorls; lateral ocelli about twice width of mesal one; no setae on front above antennae; labella small, maxillary palpus well developed, slender to apex, covered with setae and microtrichia, sensory pits and sensillae absent; cardo well developed.

Thorax: 

Antepronotal setae, 32; proepisternals, 10; proepimerals, 8; spiracular sclerite setae, 8; anepisternals, 10/8; katepisternals, 13; mesepimerals, 6/3; merals, 4; subspiraculars, 4; supra-alars, 6; pedicelars, one; a number of longer scutellar setae not in regular row.

Wing: 

M1 long, broken at base, not converging basally towards M2; A1 produced; cell m1 with 3 macrotrichia; m2, 15; m4, 17–21; cuA2, 10–15; a1, 4–5.

Female abdomen: 

S7 and T7 rectangular, unmodified. Terminalia (Fig. 27). Similar to those of A. clivicola, with pair of small, lateral tubercular projections on S8 with a number of setae, plus additional group of setae more anteriorly. T8+9 with odd mesal, well-sclerotized projection. Terminalia characteristically devoid of microtrichia.

Length: 
Body length, 2.48 mm; wing length, 1.80 mm; wing width, 0,72 mm.
Distribution: 

HOLOTYPE female, BRASIL, SP, Ribeirão Grande, Parque Estadual Intervales, Malaise Trap T3, 24º 15’ S, 48º 10’ W, 13–16.xii.2000, M.T. Tavares & eq. cols.

Description in general words: 

Small sized, shinning brown scatopsids

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Wed, 09/24/2008 - 22:16 — Brad Sinclair
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mouche.jpg

Sat, 09/20/2008 - 16:12 — Wiggy
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(Photo G. Haldimann)
http://www.museum-neuchatel.ch/scientifique/images/mouche.jpg

Thu, 09/18/2008 - 16:45 — Wiggy

Chen W. Young. 2005. The Crane Flies (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Pennsylvania. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/cranefly

Systema naturae

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 15:16 — Torsten
Systema naturae, Linnaeus, C. , Volume 1, Holmiae, p.824, (1758)

About the Grant

National Science Foundation: Assembling the Tree of Life (grant program description)

Project:Building the Dipteran Tree of Life: Cooperative Research in Phylogenetics and Bioinformatics of True Flies (Insecta: Diptera). EF-0334948 Award duration: 1 January 2004-31 December 2009.

Project Summary (pdf)

Taxa in 1st Tier Study

(42 Diptera + 4 Outgroup taxa)

Scientific Names link to FLYTREE Sequencing Progress Database, and *taxon page* links to the EDIT Diptera Site taxon pages; additional taxon-specific links to Index to Organism Names (ION), Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), and other informative sites.

Introduction

With over 158,000 described species, the insect order Diptera or true flies, is one of the most diverse branches on the Tree of Life. The evolutionary relationships between the main branches of the fly tree are still largely unknown or controversial. Understanding the history of flies is critically important in biology and medicine because flies are model organisms for comparative research in genomics, development, neurobiology, and behavior (e.g., fruit flies, mosquitoes, house flies, medfly).

What is FLYTREE?

Therevidae: Ectinorhynchus Macquart, 1850The FLYTREE project is an international research collaboration funded by the US National Science Foundation, to elaborate and discover the details of the relationships and diversity amongst the flies (insect order, Diptera) with the ultimate goal of providing a newly resolved phylogeny for this major branch of the Tree of Life.

With over 158,000 described species, flies are among the most diverse groups of living organisms on the planet. This diversity transcends simple species numbers and is demonstrated in the great breadth of morphological, ecological, and behavioral variation found in the group.

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