Coproica rufifrons Hayashi, 1991

Bergeron, Matthew D., Marshall, Stephen A. & Swann, John E., 2015, A review of the New World Coproica (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) with a description of 8 new species, Zootaxa 3953 (1), pp. 1-157 : 37-38

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Coproica rufifrons Hayashi, 1991 View in CoL

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Coproica rufifrons Hayashi, 1991 c: 237 View in CoL [both sexes, phylogenetic notes, illustr.]. Type locality: Pakistan, Chilas. HT male (ITLJ).

Description. As in Coproica hirtula with the following exceptions.

Body length 1.1–1.9 mm. Anterior 1/5 of frons orange. Interfrontal bristles in 4–5 subequal pairs.

Second costal sector 0.7–1.1 times as long as third costal sector.

Male terminalia: Cercus with rounded medial process along ventral margin, and 1 enlarged bristle. Surstylus with 2 posteroventral processes, each medially deflected, posterior-most process pointed and 2 times as long as other process, with ventral row of 5 or more bristles. Distiphallus with lateral sclerites rounded, with medial process and small lateral warts; central sclerite narrowly fused with lateral sclerites subapically, with elongate apical process. Membranes elongate, narrow, with lightly sclerotized ridges.

Female terminalia: Sternite 8 rounded anteriorly, nearly as wide as sternite 7, with posteromedial notch. Spermathecae spherical; duct length 7–8 times as long as spermathecal bulb.

Type material. Holotype male: PAKISTAN: Northwest Frontier Prov. , Chilas, 2.ix.1988, T. Hayashi ( ITLJ, not examined) . Paratypes (all individuals listed here were examined): PAKISTAN: Northwest Frontier Prov. , Ayubia, 22.vii.1988, T. Hayashi (1♀) ; Northwest Frontier Prov. , Balakot, 2.viii.1988, T. Hayashi (4♂ *) ; Northwest Frontier Prov. , Chilas, 2.ix.1988, T. Hayashi (4♂, 4♀) ; Northwest Frontier Prov. , Kalam, Swat, 6–8.viii.1988, T. Hayashi (1♀) ; Northwest Frontier Prov. , Miandam, Swat, 3.viii.1988, T. Hayashi (3♂) ; Northwest Frontier Prov. , Shangla Pass, 9.viii.1988, T. Hayashi (4♀) .

Other material examined. See Appendix A.

Distribution: Afrotropical: Yemen; Australasian/Oceanian: American Samoa, Australia (QLD), Cook Is., Fiji, French Polynesia (Tahiti), Kiribati, Marshall Is., Micronesia (Kapingamarangi, Satawa Is., Yap Is.), Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Is., Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa; Nearctic: Canada (NS [data suspect]), USA (FL, NY [data suspect], TX); Neotropical: Argentina, Bermuda, Brazil,?Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Galápagos Is. (Ecuador), Grenada, Guatemala, Jamaica,?Mexico, St. Kitts, Trinidad, Virgin Is.; Oriental: China (HKG), Japan (Okinawa), Pakistan, Taiwan; Palaearctic: Afghanistan, Canary Is. (Spain), China (BEI), Croatia, Germany, Greece (Crete), Hungary, Italy, Japan, Madeira (Portugal), Malta, Saudia Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates.

Comments. Coproica rufifrons is widespread and abundant in northern South America and the southern United States, and is the most common species of Coproica collected on the Galapagos Islands . Two specimens examined had label data indicating occurrences well north of the main range of this species: one from New York and the other from Nova Scotia .

Coproica rufifrons can be distinguished from C. hirtula by the orange anterior margin of the frons, and the presence of a pair of posterior processes on the surstylus ( Fig. 245 View FIGURES 244–246 ).

Twenty-one paratypes were examined including four males and four females belonging to the holotype series. The holotype was not examined, as we are confident that the examined paratypes are conspecific with the holotype.

See also comments under Coproica hirtula .