Frutillaria furcata, 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 : 16-17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.203208
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191613
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5562879B-FFDD-FFC0-EAA4-F9E2B516FDEF
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Frutillaria furcata
status	sp. nov.

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Frutillaria furcata View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs. 29–31 View FIGURES 29 – 34 , 108 View FIGURES 108 – 115 )

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

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

Thorax black, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, anterior, posterior, and dorsal margins with microtomentum. Katepisternum with a large shiny patch behind fore coxa extending posteriorly to near bristle. Meron and metapleuron shiny with the 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 coxa black; fore femur shiny posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.

Male abdomen ( Figs. 29–31 View FIGURES 29 – 34 ): Surstylus nearly linear, apical portion thinner. Postgonite with anterior lobe very wide and broadly rounded, posterior lobe thinner and acutely pointed. Epiphallus weakly developed, preepiphallus well-developed, clear apically. Distiphallus with lateral arms forked, lower fork frilled, upper fork acutely pointed. central projecting sclerite with a strongly dorsal longitudinal ridge, ventrally with a broad sclerite with ridges on medial surface. Lateral arms thin and long, ventral sclerite ending just before reaching ventral part of central projecting sclerite.

Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Araucanía: Contulmo Natur. Mon., Sendero Lemu Mau, 38°00'44"S 073°11'08"W, 410 m, Nothofagus obliqua -Eucryphia cordifolia ++ w/ fern & bamboo understory, FMHD #2002- 0 64, flood debris, small stream, 8 Dec 2002, A.F. Newton & A. Y. Solodovnikov ( MNNC).

Comments. The species name refers to the distinctive forked lateral arm of the distiphallus in this species.