Leucophenga fuscithorax Huang & Chen

Huang, Jia, Li, Tong, Gao, Jianjun & Chen, Hongwei, 2013, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part II: the ornata species group from East Asia, with morphological and molecular evidence (I), Zootaxa 3701 (2), pp. 101-147 : 133

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631112

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scientific name

Leucophenga fuscithorax Huang & Chen
status

sp. nov.

Leucophenga fuscithorax Huang & Chen , sp. nov.

( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A, 6A, 6B, 8L, 12A, 12B, 24)

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to L. rectifoliacea sp. nov. in the patterns of wing ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A) and abdominal tergites ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 L), but can be distinguished from the latter by having the setae of epandrium continuously distribute from posterodorsal portion to ventral corners ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 A), the aedeagus slightly acute apically, subbasally with 1 small dorsal projection, subapically with 1 small ventral projection ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 D).

Description. Ocellar triangle dark brown, with ca. 7 setae above ocellar setae. Frons yellowish brown. Pedicel yellowish brown; first flagellomere yellowish brown. Clypeus yellowish brown. Palpus brownish yellow. Mesonotum brown, lacking distinct patch or longitudinal stripe ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 A). Postpronotal lobe yellow. Acrostichal setulae in ca. 15 irregular rows ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 A). Scutellum brown, pale at tip ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 A). Pleura with a intermittent, brown longitudinal stripe above ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 B). Katepisternum and meron mostly yellow ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 B). Wing ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with ca. 6 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Mid and hindlegs dark brown on knees. Abdominal tergites black, with thin yellow along all margins ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 L); second yellow anteromedially; third with a pair of narrow, yellow patches submedially along anterior margin; fourth and fifth submedially each with 2 pairs of yellow patches near anterior margin; sixth with yellow patch medially. Male terminalia: Epandrium with ca. 24 setae posterodorsal portion to ventral corner per side ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 A). Hypandrium with 1 sensillum ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 B). Paramere broadened medially, with ca. 6 sensilla and pubescence distally ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 C). Aedeagus reticulated medially and slightly vented curved distally ( Fig. 24 View FIGURE 24 D).

Measurements. BL = 5.13 mm in holotype, THL = 2.27 mm, WL = 3.53 mm, WW = 1.70 mm, arb = 10/5, avd = 0.87, adf = 1.67, flw = 1.94, FW/HW = 0.40, ch/o = 0.03, prorb = 0.54, rcorb = 0.58, vb = 0.43, dcl = 0.49, presctl = 0.57, sctl = 1.24, sterno = 0.79, orbito = 2.55, dcp = 0.28, sctlp = 1.12, C = 2.09, 4c = 1.60, 4v = 2.25, 5x = 1.04, ac = 3.20, M = 0.63, C3F = 0.88.

Type specimen. Holotype ♂ (SCAU, No. 121982), CHINA: Wangtianshu, Mengla, Yunnan, alt. 600m, 24.iv.2007, ex tree trunk, HW Chen.

Etymology. A combination of the Latin words “ fuscus ” (= brown) + “ thorax ”, (= thorax), referring to the mesonotum colour.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Drosophilidae

Genus

Leucophenga

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