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Sistemática de Sepsidae Neotropicais

(Insecta, Diptera)

REVISION OF THE CATALOG OF THE DIPTERA OF THE AMERICAS SOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES - FAMILY SEPSIDAE

Vera Cristina Silva

Genus Archisepsis Silva

Archisepsis Silva, 1993: 128. Type species, Sepsis armata Schiner (orig. des.).

Phalacrosepsis Ozerov, 1993c: 77. Type species, Sepsis armata Schiner (orig. des.). N. syn.

Pseudopalaeosepsis Ozerov, 1992: 83. Type species, Pseudopalaeosepsis nigricoxa Ozerov (orig. des.). Silva, 1993: 128 (syn.)

armata (Schiner), 1868: 261 (Sepsis). Type locality: "Brazil" (i.e., Brasil, Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, cf. Silva, 1993:131). Distrib.- West Indies and Costa Rica south to Uruguay. Holotype ( ).

hoplicnema (Melander & Spuler), 1917: 17, fig. 12 (Sepsis). Type locality: "Haiti".

excavata (Duda), 1926b: 87 (Sepsis; nom. nov. for S. incisa Becker).

incisa (Becker), 1919: 206, pl. 17, fig. 8 (Sepsis; preocc. Strobl, 1894). Type locality: Ecuador, Cuenca.

discolor (Bigot), 1857: 823 (Sepsis). Type locality: "Cuba".

scabra (Loew), 1861: 42 (Sepsis). Type locality: "Cuba". Distrib.- USA (Texas), Costa Rica, West Indies, south to Paraguay and Argentina.

haemorrhoidalis (Schiner), 1868: 261 (Sepsis). Type locality: "Brazil".

albicoxa (Thomson), 1869: 588 (Sepsis). Type locality: Brasil. Ozerov, 1993c (syn.)

mequignoni (Seguy), 1936: 18 (Sepsis). Type locality: Acores, San Miguel, Sete Cidades. Ozerov, 1993a (syn.).

diversiformis (Ozerov), 1993b: 65, figs. 10-16 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality: Costa Rica, Puntarenas, Monta Verde. Ozerov, 1993c: 84 (in Phalacrosepsis Ozerov). Distrib.- Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Argentina. N. comb.

hirsutissima Silva, 1993: 133, figs. 82-87. Type locality: Brasil, Amapá, Serra do Navio. Distrib.- Brasil (Amazonas, Pará and Maranhão).

mirifica Silva, 1993: 134, figs. 88-94. Type locality: Brasil, Pará, Belém, Mocambo. Distrib.- Ecuador, Brasil (Pará).

muricata Silva, 1993: 135, figs. 95-103. Type locality: Brasil, Pará, Belém, Mocambo.

nigricoxa (Ozerov), 1992: 83, figs 8-16 (Pseudopalaeosepsis). Type locality: Panama, Barro Colorado Nat. Monm. Distrib.- Panama. N. comb.

peruana (Ozerov), 1993c; 92, fig. 135 (Phalacrosepsis). Type locality: "Peru". N. comb.

pleuralis (Coquillett), 1904: 35 (Sepsis). Type locality: USA, Texas, Brownsville. Distrib.- USA, Guatemala, Panama.

polychaeta (Ozerov), 1993b: 63, figs. 1-9 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality; Panama, Barro Colorado Isld., Canal Zone. Distrib.- Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Venezuela, Brasil. Ozerov, 1993c: 94 (in Phalacrosepsis Ozerov). N. comb.

priapus Silva, 1993: 136, figs. 104-112. Type locality: Brasil, Pará, Oriximiná, rio Trombetas. Distrib.- Brasil (Pará and Maranhão).

umbrifer (Schiner), 1868: 262 (Sepsis). Type locality: "South America" (i.e., Venezuela cf. Duda, 1926b: 82). Distrib.- Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina.

Genus Meropliosepsis Duda

Meropliosepsis Duda, 1926b: 28. Type species, M. sexsetosa Duda (mon.). (Silva, 1992, rev.)

sexsetosa Duda, 1926a: 28, 1926b: 79, figs. 71a-b. Type locality: Costa Rica, La Suiza de Turrialba. Distrib.- Costa Rica, Guyana to Brasil.

carnivora (Curran), 1934: 436 (Sepsis). Type locality: Guyana, Bartika, Kartabo. (Silva, 1992: 549, syn.)

Genus Meroplius Rondani

Meroplius Rondani, 1874: 170 (1874:4). Type species, Nemopoda stercoraria Robineau-Desvoidy (orig. des.).

albuquerquei, Silva, 1990: 709, figs. 1-9. Type locality: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis, Alto da Mosela. Distrib.- Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul).

Genus Microsepsis Silva

Microsepsis Silva, 1993: 138. Type species, Sepsis armillata Melander & Spuler (orig. des.)

Ajdasepsis Ozerov, 1993c: 56. Type species, Sepsis armillata Melander & Spuler (orig. des.). N. syn.

anomala Silva, 1993: 140, figs. 2, 121-127. Type locality: Costa Rica, S. José.

armillata (Melander & Spuler), 1917: 18, fig. 6 (captioned as of S. furcata) (Sepsis). Type locality: "Haiti". Distrib.- West Indies south to Brasil.

currani (Ozerov), 1993b: 70, figs. 29-30 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality: Panama, Barro Colorado Isld., Canal Zone. N. comb.

fulva (Ozerov), 1993c: 60, figs. 11-16 (Ajdasepsis). Type locality: Peru, Loreto: San Antonio. Distrib.- Venezuela, Peru. N. comb.

furcata (Melander & Spuler), 1917: 19, fig. 11 (captioned as of S. armillata) (Sepsis). Type locality: "Jamaica". Distib.- West Indies, Costa Rica, south to southern Brasil and Paraguay.

inflexa (Becker), 1919: 205, pl. 17, fig. 9 (Sepsis). Type locality: Ecuador, Cuenca; Tio Loma, Mirador, Yausai, El Angel, Casitagua. Distrib.- Ecuador to Brasil (Pará).

limnetica (Ozerov), 1993b: 70, figs. 27-28 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality: Venezuela, Bolivar, 40 Km N of Guasipati. N. comb.

mitis (Curran), 1927: 1, fig. 2 (Sepsis). Type locality: Colombia, San Lorenzo Mountains, Vista Nieve. Distrib.- Colombia, Ecuador.

mystrion Silva, 1993: 143, figs. 162-169. Type locality: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Grajaú.

pilosicoxa (Ozerov), 1993b: 67, figs. 24-26 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality: Costa Rica: Alajuela, La Virgen del Socorro nr. Carriblanca. N. comb.

simplicula (Steyskal), 1968: 3 (nom. nov for Sepsis simplex Curran).

simplex (Curran), 1928: 75 (Sepsis; preocc. Goetgebuer & Bastin, 1925). Type locality: Porto Rico, Adjuntas.

stenoptera Silva, 1993: 145, figs. 178-184. Type locality: Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Manguinhos.

steyskali (Ozerov), 1993b: 76, figs. 17-23 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality: Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Barbarita. N. comb.

Genus Nicarao Silva

Nicarao Silva, 1995: 203. Type species, Nicarao rarus Silva, 1995 (mon.).

rarus Silva, 1995: 203. Type locality: Nicaragua, Matagalpa. Holotype male, MELN.

Genus Palaeosepsioides Ozerov

Palaeosepsioides Ozerov, 1992: 81. Type species, Palaeosepsioides grimaldii Ozerov, 1992 = Palaeosepsis erythromyrma Silva, 1991 (mon.).

erythromyrma (Silva), 1991: 370, figs. 1-9 (Palaeosepsis). Type locality: Brasil, Pará, Estrada Belém-Bragança. Distrib.- Venezuela, Brasil.

grimaldii Ozerov, 1992: 81, figs. 1-7. Type locality: Venezuela, Amazonas, rio Mavaca Camp.

Genus Palaeosepsis Duda

Sepsis, subgen. Palaeosepsis Duda, 1926a: 43. Type species, Sepsis dentata Becker (Hendel, 1936: 62).

chauliobrechma Silva, 1993: 122, figs. 4-13. Type locality: Ecuador, Loja a Zamora.

dentata (Becker), 1919: 207, pl. 17, fig. 2 (Sepsis). Type locality: Ecuador, Cuenca. Distrib.- Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brasil.

dentatiformis (Duda), 1926a: 46, 1926b: 89 (Sepsis). Type locality: Costa Rica, La Suiza de Turrialba. Ozerov, 1997: 479 (lectotype designation).

ecalcarata (Thomson), 1869: 588 (Sepsis). Type locality: USA, California.

cubensis (Bigot), 1886: 390 (Nemopoda). Type locality: "Cuba". Ozerov, 1993c:86 (syn. in Phalacrosepsis)
xanthostoma (Bigot), 1896: 431 (Nemopoda). Type locality: Argentina, Buenos Aires. Ozerov, 1993c: 86 (syn. in Phalacrosepsis).

insularis (Williston), 1896: 431, pl. 14, fig. 159 (Sepsis). Type locality: West Indies, St. Vincent. Distrib.- USA, St. Vincent south to Argentina. Ozerov, 1993c: 86 (syn. in Phalacrosepsis).

bilobata (Becker), 1919: 206, pl. 17, fig. 1 (Sepsis). Type locality: Ecuador, Cuenca. Silva, 1993: 125 (syn.)

laticornis (Duda), 1926a: 45, 1926b: 86, fig. 74 (Sepsis). Type locality: Colombia, San Lorenzo. Distrib.- Colombia, Ecuador, Brasil, Paraguay. Ozerov, 1992: 86 (lectotype designation); 1997: 481 (comments about the type).

maculata (Duda), 1926a: 46 (described as a variety of Sepsis (Palaeosepsis) dentata). Type locality: "Brasil, Venezuela, Bolivia". Ozerov, 1992: 86 (lectotype designation); 1997: 482 (comments about the type)

pusio (Schiner), 1868: 262 (Sepsis). type locality: "South America" (i.e., Venezuela, cf. Duda, 1926b: 39). Distrib. Panama, Costa Rica south to Brasil.

REFERENCES

BECKER, T. 1919 Diptères. Brachycères. Miss. du Serv. Géogr. de l'Armée, Mesure d'un Arc Mérid. Équat. en Amer. du Sud 10 (2): 163-215, pls. 14-17.

BIGOT, J.M.F. 1857 Dipteros. In: R. de la Sagra: Historia fisica, politica y natural de la Isla Cuba 7: 328-349, pl. 20 (v. 8).

------- 1886 Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 29e partie, etc. Ann. Soc. Ent. France 6 (6): 287-392.

COQUILLETT, D. W. 1904 Diptera from southern Texas with description of new species. J. N. Y. ent. Soc. 12: 31-35.

CURRAN, C. H. 1927 Four new American Diptera. Amer. Mus. Novitates 275: 1-4.

-------. 1928 Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Diptera or two-winged flies. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Sci. Survey Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 11 (1): 1-118.

-------. 1934 The Diptera of Kartabo, Bartika District, British Guiana, with descriptions of new species from other British Guiana localities. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 66: 287-532.

DUDA, O. 1926a Monographie der Sepsiden (Dipt.). Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 39 (1925): 1-153.

-------. 1926b Monographie der Sepsiden (Dipt.). Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 40 : 1-110.

GOETGEBUER, M. & BASTIN, F. 1925 Contribuition a l'etude des Sepsidae de Belgique. Bull. ann. Soc. entom. Belgique 65 (4): 123-137.

HENDEL, F 1936 Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Sammelreise nach Brasilien, insbesondere in das amazonasgebiet, ausgefürt von Dr. H. Zerny. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 47: 61-106.

LOEW, H. 1861 Diptera aliquot in insula Cuba collecta. Wien Ent. Monatschr. 5: 33-43.

MELANDER, A. L. & SPULER, A. 1917 The Dipterous families Sepsidae and Piophilidae. Bull. State College Wash. Agric. Exper. Sta. 143: 1-103.

RONDANI, C. 1874 Species Italicae ordinis dipterorum (Muscaria Rndn.). Stirps XXI. - Tanypezinae Rndn collectae et observatae. Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. 6: 167-182.

SCHINER, I. R. 1868 Diptera. In: B. Wüllersdorf-Urbair: Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool. 2 (1B): 388 pp., pls. 1-4.

SEGUY, E. 1936 Voyage de MM. L. Chopard et A. Mequignon aux Açores (aout-septembre 1930). X. Dipterès. Annls soc. ent. Fr. 105: 11-26.

SILVA, V. C. 1990 Revision of the family Sepsidae of the Neotropical Region. I. The genus Meroplius Rondani (Diptera, Schizophora). Revta bras. Ent. 34 (4): 709-711.

------- 1991 Levantamento preliminar de Sepsidae (Diptera, Schizophora) em Roraima, Projeto Maracá, com descrição de uma espécie nova. Acta Amazonica 21 (único): 369-374.

------- 1992 Revision of the family Sepsidae of the Neotropical Region. II. The genus Meropliosepsis Duda, 1926 (Diptera, Schizophora). Revta bras. Ent. 36 (3): 549-552.

------- 1993 Revisão da família Sepsidae na Região Neotropical. III. Os gêneros Palaeosepsis Duda, 1926, Archisepsis gen.n. e Microsepsis gen.n.; chave para os gêneros neotropicais (Diptera, Schizophora). Iheringia, Sér. Zool. , Porto Alegre, 75: 117-170.

------- 1995. A new genus of Sepsidae (Diptera, Schizophora) from Nicaragua. Studia dipterologica 2 (1995): 203-206.

STEYSKAL, G. C. 1968 Family Sepsidae. In: Dep. Zool (ed.), A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas south of the United States. São Paulo, Dep. Zool., Secr. Agric., n. 63, 6 p.

STROBL, G. 1894 Diptera II. Mitt. naturw. Ver. Steiermark, Graz, 30: 126.

THOMSON, C. G. 1869 Diptera. Species nova descripsit, in K. Vet. Akad.: Kongliga svenska fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jorden, part 2, Zool (1): 443-614, pl.9. Stockholm, "1868".

OZEROV, A. L. 1992 New data on the neotropical sepsids (Diptera, Sepsidae). Russian Entomol. J. 1 (1): 81-86.

------- 1993a. Four new synonyms in the family Sepsidae (Diptera). Revue d'Entomologie de l'URSS 72 (1): 248-249. (In Russian).

------- 1993b. Six new species of the genus Palaeosepsis Duda (Diptera, Sepsidae). Russian Entomol. J. 2 (1): 63-71.

------- 1993c [1994]. A review of the sepsid flies of the Palaeosepsini, trib. n. (Diptera, Sepsidae). Russian Entomol. J. 2 (5-6): 55-103.

------- 1997. Some types of Sepsidae in the Berlin and Eberswalde Museums (Diptera). Beitr. Ent. 47 (1997): 477-487.

WILLISTON, S. W. 1896 On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies). Trans. ent. Soc. London 1896: 253-446,pls. 8-14.

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