Drosophila parasaltans Magalhães, 1956

(Fig. 12)

Non-type material. Strain B 17-5 ( Belém, Pará, Brazil): 30 males dissected .

Male terminalia. The epandrium displays an angular dorso-ventral region covered with short and long epandrial bristles (Fig. 12C). It presents a pair of epandrial ventral processes similar to the sturtevanti subgroup and epandrial extensions similar to the saltans subgroup (Fig. 12B, C); however, the pair of epandrial extensions protrude from the lower ventral border, they are connected to the epandrial ventral processes, and they are not located proximally below the surstyli (Fig. 12B, C). The cercus is U-shaped, covered with cercal bristles (Fig. 12C). The surstyli morphology of this species is very different; they are concave, in the shape of a “hand” (Fig. 12A, C). Each surstylus has a row of 5 to 6 surtylar teeth on both edges, arranged on the margin of the internal portion, and carries a tuft of small surstylar bristles in the lower region (Fig. 12A, C). The hypandrium is short, thin and carries a long hypandrial bristle on each side of the median gonogoxite (Fig. 12C). The aedeagal sheath is smooth, serrated at the edge and it has no scales or bristles (Fig. 12B, D, E). The aedeagal apex is membranous (Fig. 12B, D, E). The phallus presents a pair of bifurcated ventral postgonites (Fig. 12D), best viewed in the optical image. The dorsal portion of the aedeagus has a unique and membranous structure, which covers the pair of ventral postgonites (Fig. 12D). The pregonites are short and thin; each pregonite presents two or three small bristles (Fig. 12D). The phallapodeme is long (Fig. 12D).