Frutillaria chiloensis, Kits, Joel H. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011

Kits, Joel H. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011, A revision of Frutillaria Richards and Penola Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Archiborborinae), Zootaxa 2863, pp. 1-34 : 12-14

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.203208
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191607
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5562879B-FFD9-FFDD-EAA4-F9DFB4D5FF47
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Frutillaria chiloensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Frutillaria chiloensis View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs. 20–22 View FIGURES 16 – 22 , 110 View FIGURES 108 – 115 )

Description. Length: N/A (head + thorax 0.7–1.0 mm)

Occiput brown, face orange, frons and gena intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and first flagellomere orange, pedicel brown. Clypeus and prementum orange.

Thorax black, postalar callus reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, anterior, posterior, and dorsal. Katepisternum with shiny spot behind coxa not extending posteriorly toward bristle; posterior part of katepisternum, meron and metapleuron shiny with exception of a stripe of microtomentum between posterior thoracic spiracle and base of hind coxa. Laterotergite mostly shiny.

Legs black, joints narrowly orange, tarsi and trochanters orange; fore femur mostly microtomentose posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.

Male abdomen ( Figs. 20–22 View FIGURES 16 – 22 ): Inner arm of surstylus broadened at apex, outer corner not strongly projecting. Postgonite with lobes barely separated, both lobes thin, posterior lobe about 2x length of anterior. Epiphallus and preepiphallus both well-developed. Distiphallus with lateral arms thin apically, pointed at tip. central projecting sclerite with a ventral disc-like sclerite, and a medial bearing ridges near apex. Ventral sacs well-developed, sclerotized.

Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Los Lagos: Chiloé Is., Lago Tepuhueico, SE edge, 42°48'06"S 73°55'24"W, 50 m, Valdivian rainforest, FMHD #97-22, berlese, leaf & log litter, 15 Jan 1997, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer ( MNNC). Paratypes: Chiloé Is., Miraflores, road to, 0.6 km W Hwy 5, 42 °46'42"S 73°47'42"W, 130 m, secondary Valdivian rainforest, FMHD #97-25, berlese, leaf & log litter, 17 Jan 1997, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (2 3, FMNH); Chiloé Is., Miraflores, road to, 0.6 km W Ruta 5, 42 °46'44"S 73°47'42"W, 130 m, secondary Valdivian rainforest w/few conifers, FMHD #2002-077, berlese, leaf & log litter, 12 Dec 2002 A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (3 3, FMNH); Chiloé Is., Colonia Yungay, road to, ca. 4 km NW Ruta 5, 42 °59'07"S 73°42'01"W, 100–115 m, disturbed Valdivian rainforest w/recent selective cutting, FMHD #2002-078, berlese, leaf & log litter, 13 Dec 2002, A. Y. Solodovnikov & M.K. Thayer (1 3, FMNH).

Comments. The species name refers to this species’ apparent restriction to Chiloé Island.