Comprehensive Description
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المقدمة من Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Ceropsilopa nasuta Cresson
Ceropsilopa nasuta Cresson, 1917:341; 1946a:158, 163 [list, key].—Wirth, 1968:11 [Neotropical catalog].
SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—BELIZE. Belize District: Turneffe Islands: Blackbird Caye (17°19′N, 87°48′W), Mar 1993, W.N. Mathis (1). Stann Creek District: Bread and Butter Cay, Mar 1988, W.N. Mathis (1); Man of War Cay, Jun 1985, W.N. Mathis (4); Twin Cays (dock area, south end of West Island), Jan 1987, W.N. Mathis, C. Feller (1, 1).
DISTRIBUTION.—Nearctic: USA (FL). Neotropical: Belize, Brazil, Trinidad, West Indies (Cuba, Puerto Rico).
DIAGNOSIS.—This species is distinguished from congeners by the following combination of characters: first flagellomere elongate, about three times length of pedicel; pedicel small to minute; arista bearing about 11 dorsal rays; face narrow, obtusely carinate, prominent above facial setae, entirely shiny purplish black; frons not depressed; coxae and mid and hind femora blackish basally, forefemur dark on basal one-third; tibiae pale.
Leptopsilopa Cresson, 1922:136 [type species: Psilopa similis Coquillett, 1900, by original designation].
- الاقتباس الببليوغرافي
- Mathis, Wayne Neilsen. 1997. "Shore Flies of the Belizean Cays (Diptera: Ephydridae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-77. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.592
