Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Budapest 1911)

Brues, C. T.: New Diptera of the family Phoridae from Paraguay

PHORIDAE FROM PARAGUAY. 437 2. Bristles of hind tibiae placed along the outer edge of the hind side Paraguay _________ JS Ph. paraguay ana BRUES. — Bristles of hind tibiae placed on the side near the inner edge. North America. ______ ______ Ph. incisuralis Lw. 3. Hind tibiae entirely without bristles _____ _____ 4. - Hind tibiaB with a stout bristle at basal third and a second just before tip. New Guinea. _____ .... _ _ _ _ Ph. papuana BRUES. 4. Front dark brown or black ; proboscis enlarged but not elongated. _ _ 5. Front reddish-yellow; proboscis of female elongated. Bismarck Archipelago. Ph. Dohrni D

AHL. 5. Front with the bristles of the middle row forming a straight transverse line ; all closer to the occipital margin than to each other. Southern U. S. America. _ _ _____ „ _ Ph. perplexa BRUES. Bristles of middle frontal row forming a curved lme, strongly bowed upwards. _ _ .... ______ _ _ _ ... _ . _ _ „ 6. 6. Abdomen black, segments narrowly margined with yellow and lighter along the median line in the male, black in the female; fork of third vein beyond tip of first. West Indies. _____ Ph. divaricata ALDRICH. Abdomen orange yellow with a large lateral black spot on each segment (female) ; fork of third vein opposite tip of first. Paraguay. Ph. meridianalis n. sp. Phora meridionalis n. sp. Female. Length 2"3 mm. Similar to Ph. divaricata ALDRICH, but larger and differing mainly as set forth above. Brownish-yellow; the front black except lower margin, and the abdomen with a large black spot on each side of segments two to five, the spots becoming more approximate posteriorly and confluent on the sixth segment. Front as wide as its greatest height; all the bristles strongly reclinate, lower pair close together; first row or four curved down medially, the median bristles farther from each other than from the lateral bristle; next row very strongly curved, equidistant, the lateral ones much lower than the median ones. Ocelli on a distinct tubercle; occipital margin distinctly arched when seen from in front. Surface of front whitish pollinose. Anteniiie a little enlarged, the third joint short ovate, almost triangular, with strongly pubescent arista. Postocular cilia enlarged below, small above. Proboscis heavily chitinized, slender, porrect, as long as the palpi which are flattened, but not enlarged and closely appressed to it; palpi each with four moderately long bristles at the tip. Cheeks each with one strong and one weak macrochaeta ; sides of face opposite antennap with a macrochaeta opposite the base of the antenna. Thoracic dorsum rather shining, with one pair of dorsocentral maerochaetae.