Diplonevra trapezia, Liu, Guang-Chun & Yang, Meng, 2016

Liu, Guang-Chun & Yang, Meng, 2016, A taxonomic revision of the genus Diplonevra Lioy (Diptera: Phoridae) from China, Zootaxa 4205 (1), pp. 31-51 : 38

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0716EBA2-657D-456C-B989-F84BF0B41198

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6057933

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/33726316-125A-9045-71B5-9013F0F31CCC

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scientific name

Diplonevra trapezia
status

sp. nov.

Diplonevra trapezia View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 13, 14 View FIGURES 9 – 16 , 39 View FIGURES 33 – 48 , 55 View FIGURES 49 – 64 )

Male: Head. Frons black, with 70–80 scattered hairs. Mean frontal width 0.52 of head width. First row of bristles slightly convex, antial bristles further apart than either is from an anterolateral. Second row of bristles slightly concave, pre-ocellars closer than either is from a mediolateral. Supra-antennal bristles well below antials and close each other. Postpedicel brown, spherical with pointed tip. Arista yellowish brown. Palpus pale yellow and 3 times as long as its breadth, with 6 bristles on ventral apex. Proboscis pale yellow. Thorax. Scutum and scutellum black, Notopleuron with 4 bristles. Scutellum with 4 bristles. Legs yellow brown. Front tibia lacking near-dorsal bristle and differentiated hairs, tarsomere 5 widened. Mid tibia with 2 longitudinal hair palisades, anterodorsal one straight and extending to 1/4(0.27) of tibia. Posterior face of hind trochanter with 4–5 bristles. Posterior face of hind femur with 5–6 stout bristles and several fine hairs along ventral margin. Ascending Process short, trapezoid, with 2 long and 1 short hairs apically. Hind tibia with 1 weak, anterodorsal bristle. Wing 1.64 mm long. Costal index 0.52. Costal ratios 4.6:1.24:1. Costal cilia 0.06 mm long. Vein M1 curved. Axillary ridge with 3 axillary bristles. All veins brown and membrane yellowish brown. Haltere brown. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown except tergite 1 and anterior half of tergite 2 pale yellow, with small hairs on tergites 1–5, but longer hairs on tergite 6 Venter light yellow. Hypopygium brown, boot-like. Left side of epandrium triangular, with 18–20 long hairs. Right side of epandrium broad, with about 18–20 long hairs toward posterior margin. Hypandrium tomentose, without bristles. Circus brown and stalk of circus pale brown. Body length 1.58 mm.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia).

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the trapezoid ascending process on the posterior face of the hind femur.

Holotype: ♂, Inner Mongolia, Wusutu (40°51′N, 111°58′E), 20–Jul–2004, Hong Fang. GoogleMaps

Remarks. In the key to palaearctic species of Diplonevra ( Schmitz 1949) the new species runs to couplet 5 to D. florescens , it differed from latter by 1 anterodorsal bristle of hind tibia, a short, trapezoid ascending process of posterior face of hind femur.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Diplonevra

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