Bentrovata flavithorax, Papp, 2021

Papp, László, 2021, New Species Of Apterobiroina L. Papp And Bentrovata Richards (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) From Australia, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 67 (2), pp. 101-117 : 110

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.67.2.101.2021

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4945775

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C0498202-3B22-FF82-FE09-FE91FE0C9FFF

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Bentrovata flavithorax
status

sp. nov.

Bentrovata flavithorax View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs 21–29 View Figs 21–29 )

Holotype male ( HNHM): WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Gully Rd., Nornalup-Walpole Nat. Pk. – 25. 1. 1979 to 6. 3. 1979, No. 1496, pitfall traps .

Paratypes ( HNHM, 2 m, 3 f in AM): 5 males 8 females (1 m 1 f gen. prep.): same as for the holotype; 3 males 6 females ( HNHM): ibid., Nornalup-Walpole Nat. Pk., No. 1495; 1 female ( HNHM): ibid., Treen Brook S. F., No. 1492 .

Body length (mm): 1.58 (holotype), 1.66–1.81 (paratypes).

Frons without longitudinal stripes. Thorax contrastingly yellow.

Male genitalia. Larger blunt black thorns/pegs of ventro-medial process of synsternite are unarranged ( Figs 21–22 View Figs 21–29 ). Dorsal part of synsternite short ( Fig. 24 View Figs 21–29 ). Pseudocerci large ( Fig. 23 View Figs 21–29 ). Hypandrium Y-shaped, with long apodeme ( Fig. 25 View Figs 21–29 ). Surstylus ( Fig. 26 View Figs 21–29 ) short, with an extremely large black thorn ventrally. Distiphallus ( Fig. 27 View Figs 21–29 ) rather short; postgonite long and narrow, with a proclinate, nearly sharp apex.

Female genitalia. Abdomen at broadest 0.60 mm. Length of tergites 3–5 (mm): 0.225, 0.36, 0.225. Length/width of sternites 3–6 (mm): 0.12×0.67, 0.17×0.68, 0.12×0.66, 0.09×0.41. Epiproct membranous, without setae ( Fig. 29 View Figs 21–29 ). Spermathecae long ovoid ( Fig. 28 View Figs 21–29 ), neck of spermathecae without warts.

HNHM

Hungary, Budapest, Hungarian Natural History Museum

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

AM

Australian Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sphaeroceridae

Genus

Bentrovata

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