Bradysia conflexa, Vilkamaa & Suuronen, 2019

Vilkamaa, Pekka & Suuronen, Anna, 2019, Definition of the Bradysia luctifica group (Diptera, Sciaridae), with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 151-161 : 157-158

Bradysia conflexa sp. n.

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Material studied. Holotype male. MALAYSIA, Pahang, Genting Highlands, Awana Cable Car Route , Malaise trap, 10–22.III.1997, H. Hippa, M. Jaschhof & B. Viklund (in SMNH).

Description. Male. Head. Face and antenna concolorous pale brown, maxillary palpus very pale brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Face with 27 short and fine setae. Clypeus with 2 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments; 1 st segment large and much longer than other segments, 2 nd segment longer than 3 rd segment; 1 st segment with 4 setae, with well-demarcated, large dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres smooth, densely setose, body of 4 th flagellomere 1.25x as long as wide, the neck shorter than wide, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Brown, setae dark. Anterior pronotum with 6 setae. Proepisternum with 8 setae. Scutellum with 4 longer and some short setae. Wing. Fumose. Length 2.1 mm. Width/length 0.50. Anal lobe large. Veins distinct. stM equally long as fork of M. R1/R 0.7. c/ w 0.9. r-m longer than bM. bM non-setose, r-m with 2 setae. Halter yellow. Legs. Coxae pale brown, setae dark. Tibiae and tarsi yellow. Fore tibial organ with pale vestiture forming a row. Fore tibial spur longer than the tibial width. Claws without teeth. Abdomen. Pale brown, setae dark, fine and rather long. Hypopygium ( Fig. 5 ). Brown, concolorous with abdomen. Intergonocoxal area rather short. Gonocoxae broad, basally united (U-shaped), longer than gonostylus, with long setosity, medial margin richly setose, membraneous part with short setae, without microtrichia. Gonostylus narrow, slightly widened towards apex, strongly curved, richly setose, apex with numerous blunt setae, subapically with a row of spine-like megasetae, without apical tooth. Tegmen laterally curved, with medial sclerotized structures, apicoventrally with numerous small teeth, dorsally with long hyalinous apical part, with long strongly sclerotized basal apodemes, with a large area of strong aedeagal teeth. Aedeagal apodeme short.

Discussion. See under Bradysia abrupta .

Etymology. The name is Latin, conflexa , bent, referring to the curved gonostylus of the species.

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FIGURE 5. Bradysia conflexa sp. n. (holotype). A. Gonostylus, ventral. B. Part of hypopygium, ventral. Scale 0.10 mm.