Pseudolycoriella spicata, 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 : 12-14

Pseudolycoriella spicata sp. n.

Figs 8 A–D

Material studied. Holotype male. NEW CALEDONIA, Rivière Bleue N.P., 150 m, humid forest on alluvials, Malaise trap, 22.iv –6.v.1987, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chateau & Tillier (in MNHN).

Description. Male. Head. Brown, antenna unicolorous pale brown, maxillary palpus pale brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Face with 17 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 5 setae. Labrum elongated. 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 ( Fig.8 A) 1.5x 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 3 setae. Episternum 1 with 8 setae. Scutum with short dorsocentrals, with 5 stronger laterals, scutellum with 2 longer and some short setae. Wing. Hyalinous. Length 2.2 mm. Width/length 0.40. Veins distinct. R1/R 0.90. c/ w 0.65. r-m and than bM subequal in length, both r-m and bM non-setose. Halter pale brown. Legs. Brown, slightly paler than thorax. Coxal setae pale. Apical part of front tibia, Fig. 8 B: front tibial organ with pale fine vestiture forming a small patch. Front tibial spur slightly longer than the tibial width. Claws with teeth. Abdomen. Pale brown, setae dark. Hypopygium, Figs 8 C–D. Brown, concolorous with abdomen. Gonocoxa longer than gonostylus, mesial margin with short sparse setosity, basal part twith dense setosity. Gonostylus slightly curved, with the mesial side impressed; with a dense apical vestiture, with some sharp straight mesial megasetae at about the middle of gonostylus, with a long subapical whiplash seta. Tegmen broader than long, laterally straight, with a distinct sclerotized finger-like process.

Discussion. See under Pseudolycoriella capillosa .

Etymology. The name is Latin, spicata , furnished with spikes, referring to the spike-like gonostylar megasetae.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Pseudolycoriella spicata sp. n. (holotype). A. Antennal flagellomere 4, lateral view. B. Apical part of front tibia, prolateral view. C. Part of hypopygium, ventral view. D. Gonostylus, ventral view. Scale 0.1 mm.