Paramyia lutea, Levesque-Beaudin & Mlynarek, 2020

Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie & Mlynarek, Julia J., 2020, Revision of Nearctic Paramyia Williston (Diptera: Milichiidae), Zootaxa 4732 (1), pp. 1-56 : 9-12

Paramyia lutea , new species

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Description. ( Fig 5 ) Total length ♂ 1.3 mm, ♀ 1.6-2.2 mm. Overall colour yellowish, frontal triangle light brown to yellowish, shiny, almost reaching lunule; frons 1.1 times longer than wide and 2.2 times wider than flagellum; width at widest point 2.5 times the bottom eye width; gena yellowish and shiny, 0.29 times eye height; postgena yellowish and shiny and 0.32 width of head; scape and pedicel light brown, first flagellomere subquadrate, 1.3 times wider than long, dark grey around and yellowish at the base with pale pubescence, arista dark grey and 3.0 times width of first flagellomere; mild facial carina; palpus yellow with 4 enlarge setae apically, 1 longer ventral seta pre-apical and 4 short ventral setae, labium yellow 0.40 mm and labella yellow 0.43 mm long.

Scutum shiny yellowish to light brown; scutellum yellowish; all legs yellowish; hind basitarsus equal length of tarsi 2-4 combined; haltere yellowish; wing 1.8 mm long; abdomen shiny yellowish to light brown.

Male postabdomen ( Fig. 6 ). Epandrium in lateral view 1.0 times wider than high, in posterior view 2.4 times wider than high (before cerci), small setae covering posterior portion of epandrium mixed with a low density of large setae; surstylus 0.4 times as high (at longest point) as epandrium, double-lobed tip, long setae apically; cerci large and pointed apically, 2.0 times length of surstylus in posterior view, with two pair of very long preapical setae.

Molecular barcode sequence can be accessed through GenBank Accession: [pending] and BOLD BIN: BOLD: ADP0751 (only 1 sequence).

Distribution ( Fig. 26 ). Southwestern United-States: Utah, New Mexico

Type material. Holotype ♂. UNITED STATES: New Mexico: Polio Carpio, Taos , 13.ix.1965, R.G. Jones (USNM) [USNMENT01204741].

Paratypes. UNITED STATES: Utah: Cache Co., USU School Forest, 41.77°N, 111.79°W, 1♀, 28.vii.1977 (NHMLAC), 1♀, 1.i-31.xii.1977 (NHMLAC), Cache Co. , W. Hodges Canyon, 41.92°N, 111.4°W, 1♀, 21.vii- 1.viii.2003, Hanson, Knowlton (USNM), 2♀, 28.vii-1.viii.2005, Hanson, Knowlton (USNM), 1♀, 11-19.vii.1983, Knowlton, Hanson (USNM), 1♀, 5-9.v.1994, Knowlton, Hanson (USNM), 1♀, 12-16.vii.1993, Hanson, Knowl- ton (USNM), 1♀, 4-8.viii.1978, Knowlton, Hanson (USNM), 1♀, 18-21.vii.1983, Hanson, Knowlton (USNM), 1♀, 5-12.viii.1971, Knowlton, Hanson (USNM) , Summit Co. , Bear riv. R.S. 3 mi. SE, 40.92°N, 110.83°W, 4♀, 5-12.viii.1971, Hanson, Knowlton, Malaise trap (USNM), 1♀, 6.vi-1.vii.1992, Hanson, Knowlton, Malaise trap (USNM), 1♀, 5-8.viii.2005, Hanson, Knowlton, Malaise trap (USNM)

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Etymology. The epithet lutea comes from the Latin luteus meaning yellow, which refers to the color of the body.

Remarks. Only two other described species of Paramyia are mostly yellow, Paramyia flava Papp, 2001 from Indonesia and Paramyia latigena Papp, 2001 from Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Paramyia lutea male (A) habitus, (B) head frontal, (C) head lateral; female (D) habitus, (E) head frontal, (F) head lateral. Scale bar: habitus = 1 mm, others = 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 6. Paramyia lutea male genitalia (A) lateral, (B) posterior, (C) surstylus. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURE 26. Distribution map of Paramyia incrassatoloba, Paramyia lutea, Paramyia nigritarsi, Paramyia wheeleri. (created by Simplemappr)