Zootaxa 3370: 1–307 (2012) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2012 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) ZOOTAXA 3370 Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocesphalinae)—Subgeneric classification and Revision of the New World species OWEN LONSDALE1 & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL2 1 - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]. Corresponding author. 2 - Insect Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]. Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by D.J. Bickel: 21 Mar. 2012; published: 4 Jul. 2012 OWEN LONSDALE & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocesphalinae)—Subgeneric classification and Revision of the New World species (Zootaxa 3370) 307 pp.; 30 cm. 4 Jul. 2012 ISBN 978-1-86977-923-8 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-924-5 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2012 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2012 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 3370 © 2012 Magnolia Press LONSDALE & MARSHALL Table of contents Introduction . 7 Biology . 8 Materials & methods . 9 Sobarocephala Czerny, 1903 [Synonymy] . 10 Generic diagnosis . 10 Generic description . 10 Species groups . 11 Key to the species groups of Sobarocephala . 17 Key A) Key to the species of Sobarocephala found south of the United States, excluding those of the S. flaviseta species group . 18 Key B) Key to the species of the Sobarocephala flaviseta species group found south of the United States . 30 Species descriptions of New World Sobarocephala (alphabetical within species groups): . 35 1) Sobarocephala archisobarocephala species group. 35 0.1 S. archisobarocephala spec. nov. Figs 169, 180–182. 35 0.1 S. atuberosa spec. nov. Figs 65, 186–188. 36 0.2 S. basilobellus spec. nov. Figs 129, 183–185. 36 0.3 S. disrupta spec. nov. Figs 118, 189–191. 37 2) Sobarocephala flava species group . 38 0.1 S. affinis (Johnson, 1913) . 38 0.2 S. atricornis Sabrosky & Steyskal, 1974 . 38 0.3 S. flava Melander & Argo, 1924 Fig. 782 . 38 0.4 S. latifrons (Loew, 1860) . 38 0.5 S. lobillis spec. nov. Figs 71, 192–194. 38 0.6 S. muesebecki Sabrosky & Steyskal, 1974 . 39 0.7 S. pengellyi Lonsdale & Marshall, 2007b . 39 0.8 S. wirthi Lonsdale & Marshall, 2007b . 40 3) Sobarocephala latipennis species group . 40 0.1 S. apophysis spec. nov. Figs 201–203. 40 0.2 S. araguamyia spec. nov. Figs 102, 213–215. 40 0.3 S. bucki spec. nov. Figs 107, 216–218. 41 0.4 S. dimidiata (Hennig, 1938) Figs 100, 219–221. 42 0.5 S. emarginata spec. nov. Figs 109, 207–209. 43 0.6 S. epeira spec. nov. Figs 111, 112, 231–236. 43 0.7 S. latipennis Melander & Argo, 1924 Figs 42, 114, 228–230. 44 0.8 S. liturata Melander & Argo, 1924 Figs 98, 225–227. 45 0.9 S. palpata spec. nov. Fig. 104 . 47 0.10 S. paripollicis spec. nov. Figs 96, 195–197. 48 0.11 S. patina spec. nov. Figs 105, 198–200. 49 0.12 S. peruana Soós, 1965 status nov. Fig. 90 . 49 0.13 S. plumatella Melander & Argo, 1924 Figs 106, 210–212. 50 0.14 S. sinuata spec. nov. Fig. 113 . 51 0.15 S. spinaria spec. nov. Figs 143, 222–224. 52 0.16 S. tschirnhausi spec. nov. Figs 108, 204–206. 52 4) Sobarocephala ruebsaameni species group . 53 0.1 S. cacumen spec. nov. Figs 33, 55, 246–248. 53 0.2 S. compta spec. nov. Figs 35, 53. 54 0.3 S. finnilaei Frey, 1918 Figs 31, 57, 243–245. 55 0.4 S. nebrias spec. nov. Figs 32, 54, 249–251. 55 0.5 S. notabina spec. nov. Fig. 52 . 56 0.6 S. notalis spec. nov. Figs 37, 58. 57 0.7 S. parrhasios spec. nov. Figs 39, 167, 240–242. 57 0.8 S. reducta spec. nov. Figs 36, 59, 255–257. 58 0.9 S. ruebsaameni Czerny, 1903 Figs 13, 25, 34, 60, 252–254. 59 0.10 S. speciosa spec. nov. Fig. 56 . 61 0.11 S. zeuxis spec. nov. Figs 168, 237–239. 61 5) Sobarocephala erwini species group . 62 0.1 S. aprica spec. nov. Figs 261–263. 62 0.2 S. erwini spec. nov. Figs 40, 267–269. 63 0.3 S. virgulatissimus spec. nov. Figs 130, 264–266. 63 6) Sobarocephala setulocetra – unplaced . 64 0.1 S. setulocetra spec. nov. Figs 84, 258–260. 64 7) Sobarocephala isla species group . 65 NEW WORLD SOBAROCEPHALA (DIPTERA: CLUSIIDAE) Zootaxa 3370 © 2012 Magnolia Press · 3 0.1 S. amniocolis spec. nov. Figs 81, 309–311. 65 0.2 S. aquilonaria spec. nov. Figs 151, 297–299. 65 0.3 S. dorsoplicella spec. nov. Figs 1, 128, 330–332. 66 0.4 S. epraka spec. nov. Figs 2, 131, 291–293. 67 0.5 S. eukteana spec. nov. Figs 9, 149, 294–296. 68 0.6 S. fissura spec. nov. Figs 144, 270–272. 69 0.7 S. freidbergi spec. nov. Figs 171, 306–308. 70 0.8 S. furviala spec. nov. Figs 103, 333–335. ..