Pseudolycoriella pallidula, Vilkamaa, Pekka, Hippa, Heikki & Mohrig, Werner, 2012

Vilkamaa, Pekka, Hippa, Heikki & Mohrig, Werner, 2012, The genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3207, pp. 1-21 : 9-10

Pseudolycoriella pallidula sp. n.

Figs 5 A–D

Material studied. Holotype male. NEW CALEDONIA, Rivière Bleue N.P., (parc 7), rainforest, 21.vii.1992, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Guilbert (in MNHN).

Description. Male. Head. Brown, antenna brown except scapus and pedicellus pale brown, flagellomere 1 and 2 yellow, maxillary palpus very pale brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Face with 7 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 3 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 palpomeres; palpomere 3 longer than palpomere 1, palpomere 2 shortest; palpomere 1 with 3 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres rough, flagellomere 4 2.3x as long as wide, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Brown, setae dark. Anterior pronotum with 5 setae. Episternum 1 with 7 setae. Scutum with short dorsocentrals, with 2–3 stronger laterals, scutellum with 2 longer and some short setae. Wing. Hyalinous. Length ca. 1.5 mm. In poor condition in the specimen studied; veins distinct. c/ w 0.60. r-m and than bM subequal in length, both r-m and bM non-setose. Halter pale brown. Legs. Yellow. Coxal setae pale. Front tibial organ with pale fine vestiture forming a small patch. Front tibial spur slightly longer than the tibial width. Claws with teeth. Abdomen. Brown, setae dark. Hypopygium, Figs 5 A, B. Brown, concolorous with abdomen, with intercoxal lobe with long setae. Gonocoxa longer than gonostylus, mesial margin sparse setosity. basally with a densely setose lobe. Gonostylus narrow and curved, with the mesial side impressed; with a dense apical vestiture, with 3-4 slen- der megasetae on apical half, with a long subapical whiplash seta. Tegmen laterally straight, with a long sclerotized apical process.

Discussion. See under Pseudolycoriella capillosa .

Etymology. The name is Latin, pallidula , somewhat pale, referring to the rather pale colour of the fly.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Pseudolycoriella pallidula sp. n. (holotype). A. Gonostylus, ventral view. B. Part of hypopygium, ventral view. Scale 0.10 mm.