Drosophila neoelliptica Pavan e Magalhães in Pavan, 1950

(Fig. 14)

Non-type material. Strains NEO-1 (Cantareira, São Paulo, Brazil): 15 males dissected; and NEO-2 (Aguaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil): 20 males dissected .

Male terminalia. This species has epandrial extensions, aedeagus shape and pregonites very similar to the D. emarginata (Fig. 14B, D, E). The epandrial ventral processes are short and parallel (Fig. 14D). Each surstylus has the smallest number of surstylar teeth, with an average of 20 chitinous teeth, irregularly arranged throughout the internal region, plus 6 thinner primary teeth arranged in a row and a tuft of surstylar bristles (Fig. 14A, D). The hypandrium is very similar to that of D. emarginata, however the median gonocoxites are divergent at the end (Fig. 14C, D). The most notable characteristics that differ in relation to D. emarginata are found in the aedeagus, due to the presence of a ventral protuberance, named aedeagal ventral crest and the central axis of the aedeagus has a long ventral protuberance (Fig. 14B, E). The phallapodeme is longer (Fig. 14E).