Leptomorphus talyshensis, Zaitzev & Sevcik, 2002

Zaitzev, AI & Sevcik, J, 2002, A Review Of The Palaearctic Species Of The Leptomorphus Quadrimaculatus (Matsumura) Group (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48 (3), pp. 203-211 : 210

Leptomorphus talyshensis sp. n.

( Figs 4, 5 , 11, 14 )

Material examined. Holotype m: Azerbaijan, Avrora, 13.V.1980, Zaitzev leg. Paratypes: m, f, with the same data (IEE) .

Description. Male. Head yellow, vertex light brown, clypeus and palpus yellow, antennae with sixth flagellar segment twice as long as broad. Thorax two-coloured; mesonotum shining dark brown with yellow lateral parts, laterotergite yellow with brownish lower margin, pleuron yellow. Wing length 7 mm, wing with dark central spot, starting from Sc and ending behind stem of M fork, apical part of wing darkened, clouds present also between branches of Cu fork and behind Cu2; stem of M fork 3.5 times as long as rm, base of Cu fork under base of rm. Halteres with brown knobs. Legs yellow, first tarsomere twice as long as fore tibia, fore tibia with 6–8 a, 2 d, 1–3 pd, 5 p, 6 pv, 15 v; mid tibia with 16 a, 8 ad, 5 d, 8 pd, 6 p, 3–4 v; hind tibia with 8 a, 10 ad, 8 d, 6 pd, 4 p, 4 v. Abdomen two-coloured, tergites 1–5 yellow with dark brown hind margins, tergite 6 dark brown with narrow yellow fore margin. Terminalia yellow.

Female. Similar to male in coloration. Ovipositor yellow.

Remarks. This species is close to L. forcipatus LANDROCK , from which it differs mainly in the coloration of abdomen and in the shape of gonostylus.

Figures

Figs 1–6. Leptomorphus WALK.: 1, 3 – L.quadrimaculatus (Russia, Lazo); 2, 6 – L.subforcipatus sp. n. (holotype); 4, 5 – L. talyshensis sp. n. (holotype): 1, 4, 6 = male terminalia (dorsal view); 2, 3, 5 =

Figs 11–14. Leptomorphus WALK.: 11, 14 – L. talyshensis sp. n. (paratype); 12 – L. quadrimaculatus (Russia, Lazo); 13 – L.subforcipatus sp.n. (Russia, Moscow region):11–13 = female sternite 8 (ven-