Homoneura (Homoneura) sauteri Malloch, 1927

Shi, Li & Yang, Ding, 2014, Supplements to species groups of the subgenus Homoneura in China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae: Homoneura), with descriptions of twenty new species, Zootaxa 3890 (1), pp. 1-117 : 38

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Homoneura (Homoneura) sauteri Malloch, 1927 View in CoL

( Figs 224–234 View FIGURES 224 – 229 View FIGURES 230 – 234 )

Homoneura sauteri Malloch, 1927: 171 View in CoL . Type locality: China ( Taiwan). Holotype male in SDEI.

Homoneura (Homoneura) sauteri: Sasakawa, 1992: 196 View in CoL ; 2001: 81; 2003:71. Shewell in Delfinado & Hardy, 1977: 208.

Diagnosis. Wing with a brown stripe-like spot on dm-cu. Abdomen yellow without brown spots.

Redescription. MALE. Body length 3.9–4.1 mm, wing length 4.2–4.3 mm. FEMALE. Body length 4.1 mm, wing length 4.4 mm.

Head ( Fig. 225 View FIGURES 224 – 229 ) yellow. Frons pale brown between anterior or and posterior or, slightly wider than long and parallel-sided; ocellar triangle grayish brown; anterior or slightly longer than posterior or, oc shorter than posterior or. Gena about 1/5 height of eye. Antenna yellow (occasionally pale brown apically), 1.6 times longer than high; arista black except for brownish base, ray long plumose, with longest ray 1.6 times as long as height of 1st flagellomere. Proboscis brownish yellow and palpus yellow.

Thorax ( Figs 226, 227 View FIGURES 224 – 229 ) yellow. Mesonotum with 0+3 dc (1st post-sutural dc close to transverse suture), acr in irregular 8–10 rows and prsc slightly shorter than 1st post-sutural dc. Legs yellow. Fore femur with 4 pv, 6 pd, and ctenidium with 12 short setae; fore tibia with 1 preapical ad and 1 short apv. Mid femur with 4–5 a and 1 app; mid tibia with 1 strong preapical ad and 2 strong apv. Hind femur with 1 weak preapical ad and 2–3 av on apical 1/3; hind tibia with 1 preapical ad and 1 short apv. Wing ( Fig. 229 View FIGURES 224 – 229 ) slightly yellow with a brown stripe-like spot on dmcu; subcostal cell hyaline. Halter yellow.

Abdomen ( Fig. 228 View FIGURES 224 – 229 ) yellow without brown spots. Male genitalia ( Figs 230–234 View FIGURES 230 – 234 ): syntergosternite circular with dorsal setulae and a dorsoapical incision, spiracle on membrane in anterior view; epandrium wide apically, with three pairs of long dorsal setae in lateral view; surstylus claviform, blunt round apically in lateral view; hypandrium nearly Y-shaped with a middle ventral segment, postgonite short spoon-like; aedeagus with a pair of small triangular basal processes and a small apical incision in ventral view and a pair of narrow apical processes in lateral view; aedeagal apodeme shorter than aedeagus.

Type material. Paratypes: 1 ♀ ( USNM), CHINA, Formosa ( Taiwan): Macuyama, VI. 1914, H. Sauter; 1 ♂ ( USNM, No. 42842, no head), CHINA, Formosa ( Taiwan): Chip-Chip, III. 1909, H. Sauter.

Other material examined. 1 ♂ ( USNM), CHINA, Formosa ( Taiwan): Chip-Chip, II. 1909, H. Sauter; 1 ♂ ( CAUC), CHINA, Hainan Province: Shuiman, Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve, Guanjingtai, 600 m, 16. V. 2007, Junhua Zhang.

Distribution. China ( Taiwan, new to Hainan), Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.