Prochyliza inca McAlpine 1977

Prochyliza inca McAlpine, 1977 Prochyliza inca McAlpine 1977: 46. Type locality: Ecuador (Azuay). Holotype (♂) and paratypes (4 ♀) in CNC. Material examined. 1 ♀ (CNC, paratype): Ecuador, Azuay, Tarqui; 07���08.iii. 1965. 1 ♂ (CNC): Ecuador, Azuay, Santa Isabel; 10���13.iii. 1965; det. A. L. Ozerov. Diagnosis. The two horn-like spines on the epandrium of P. i n c a males (Fig. 5 D) are extremely distinctive. The following combination of characters is also distinctive of P. i nc a: lower quarter or less of the frons orange; gena black; front coxa entirely yellow; mid and hind femora and mid and hind tibiae mostly black; margins and fringes of calypters brownish; males with posterior margin of sternite 5 strongly emarginated. Remarks. According to McAlpine (1977), P. azteca would be the most closely related species to P. inca. In the absence of a description for P. azteca male morphology, the presence of two horn-like spines on the epandrium of P. inca (Fig. 5 D) appears to be an unique character among the Piophilidae. Biology. Unknown. Distribution. Neotropical; only recorded from Ecuador (McAlpine 1977; Ozerov & Norrbom 2010).
Published as part of Mart��n-Vega, Daniel, 2014, On the identity of Prochyliza nigrimana (Meigen) and Prochyliza nigricornis (Meigen) (Diptera: Piophilidae), with a synopsis of Prochyliza Walker and description of a new species, pp. 277-292 in Zootaxa 3893 (2) on page 287, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/224982
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