Panava a senior synonym of Wulpisca, and description of new species of Panava and Dexosarcophaga (Bezzisca) from the Brazilian Amazon (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Abstract

The generic name Wulpisca Lopes is placed as a junior synonym of a redefined Panava Dodge, a Neotropical taxon characterized by short apical spines on the male surstylus, a single phallotreme, presence of proclinate frontorbital bristles in the male, and setose wing vein R 1 . The species W. imbecilla (Wulp) and W. arnaudi Lopes are transferred to Panava and a new species, P. amazonica sp. nov., is described from Brazil. A key to males of the seven species of Panava is given. The subgenus Bezzisca Lopes of the predominantly Neotropical genus Dexosarcophaga Townsend comprises 17 species, including a new one described herein, D. (B.) tracua sp. nov. from Brazil. The key to species of D. (Bezzisca) by Silva and Mello-Patius (2010) is modified to include this new species.

Eight new species of Dexosarcophaga Townsend, 1917 (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) from the Neotropical Region

“…Dexosarcophaga Townsend, 1917 is one of the 46 genera recognized in the subfamily Sarcophaginae (Buenaventura & Pape 2018), and it included 50 valid species prior to this study (Pape 1996;Mello-Patiu 2000;Mello-Patiu & Pape 2000;Silva & Mello-Patiu 2010;Carvalho-Filho & Esposito 2011; Carvalho-European Journal of Taxonomy 828: 109-137 (2022) Mello-Patiu & Pape (2000) recognized three species-groups in this genus, recovering the genera recognized by Lopes (1975bLopes ( , 1982b in Dexosarcophagina. The authors did not mention where the monotypic genus Ectomyia could be tentatively placed in these groups.…”

Description of three new species of Dexosarcophaga (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) from Brazil with new information on synonyms and filling gaps in species distribution

“…Mello-Patiu and Pape (2000) considered three species-groups within Dexosarcophaga : Bezzisca Lopes, 1975, Dexosarcophaga and Farrimyia Dodge, 1965. These groups have been treated as subgenera by subsequent authors (Silva and Mello-Patiu 2010, Carvalho-Filho and Esposito 2011, Carvalho-Filho et al 2014, 2018). The segregation of Dexosarcophaga (sensu stricto) is based on the phallus morphology, with species presenting a reduced median stylus in the shape of a bilobed rugose lobe, lateral stylus elongated, juxta apically narrow, and elongated, covering the apices of lateral styli (Mello-Patiu and Pape 2000).…”