Abstract
The puparium of Dactylodeictes brevifacies was described based on fifty-eight specimens reared in laboratory until the emergence of adults. Larvae were collected under the bark of fallen trees in a Cerrado vegetation, Gallery forest; Palm swamp (Vereda) and open grassland (Campo Limpo) in States of Goiás and Tocantins, Brazil (New Record). The puparium was compared with that of Brachyodina lopesi, the most closely related species with a described puparium. Despite this species clearly shared the larval pachygastrinae features it has a remarkable character not know before for this subfamily: the presence of four pairs of ventral setae (V) in the eighth abdominal segment in ventral view, while in other larvae and puparia of this subfamily, there are five pairs of ventral setae. The adult male and female were described and figured.
Highlights
The family Stratiomyidae has 12 subfamilies and more than 2.800 species described in the world, distributed in 378 genera (Woodley, 2001, 2011). Woodley (2001) and Pujol-Luz & Pujol-Luz (2014) asserted that the Neotropical Region has the highest Stratiomyidae diversity, both in relation to the number of genera and the number of species
The puparium of Dactylodeictes brevifacies was described based on fifty-eight specimens reared in laboratory until the emergence of adults
Larvae were collected under the bark of fallen trees in a Cerrado vegetation, Gallery forest; Palm swamp (Vereda) and open grassland (Campo Limpo) in States of Goiás and Tocantins, Brazil (New Record)
Summary
The family Stratiomyidae has 12 subfamilies and more than 2.800 species described in the world, distributed in 378 genera (Woodley, 2001, 2011). Woodley (2001) and Pujol-Luz & Pujol-Luz (2014) asserted that the Neotropical Region has the highest Stratiomyidae diversity, both in relation to the number of genera and the number of species. The genus Dactylodeictes Kertész, 1914 has three species: D. amazonicus Kertész, 1914 (Brazil); D. brevifacies James, 1974 (Panama and Peru) and D. medius James, 1974 (Ecuador and Peru) (Woodley, 2001, 2014). None of these species had their larvae/puparium described yet. In addition to the description of the puparium, we registered for the first time the occurrence of this species in Brazil, updating the distribution map and describing male and female terminalia
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