Dolichopeza reidi, Theischinger & S & T, 2017

Theischinger, Günther, S, New & T, Australia., 2017, Dolichopeza reidi nov. sp., a new crane fly species from Lord Howe Island, New South Wales, Australia (Diptera: Tipulidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 727-731 : 728-729

Dolichopeza reidi nov.sp. (Figs 1-5)

T y p e m a t e r i a l Holotype Ƌ: LORD HOWE IS (= Australia, NSW, Lord Howe Island ), Lidgbird, E shelf 31: 33.826S 159: 05.271E 486 m FIT/malaise; 9-16.ii.2017, C. Reid LHI 2017Feb16 C62; Australian Museum K 377386 ( AM).

D e s c r i p t i o n:

Male (Figs 1-5)

H e a d. Largely pale greyish brown, including rostrum, basal segments of palpus and scape; distal segment of palpus, pedicel, flagellum and vertex medium to blackish grey.

T h o r a x. Anterior pronotum and propleuron blackish grey, posterior pronotum pale yellow. Tergites of synthorax yellowish to dark grey; pleura largely pale greyish to yellowish white with two black longitudinal stripes, one extending between mesopleuron and mesopostphragma just ventral to wing base and halter base, the other from base of procoxa across part of the ventral portion of sternopleuron and base of mesocoxa into meron. Legs with coxae and throchanters dull yellowish white with dark markings in pro- and mesocoxa (as mentioned above), with femora pale to dark grey with apex dull yellowish white, with tibiae dull yellowish white at extreme base and otherwise dark to pale grey with approximately apical 1/4 of pro- and mesotibia and approximately apical ⅓ of metatibia dull yellowish white, and with tarsi grey in basal ⅓ to ½, pale greyish to yellowish white in the remainder.

W i n g s (Fig. 1). Membrane tinged with pale brownish grey; venation and pterostigma blackish grey. Halter with stem and knob dark grey.

A b d o m e n (Fig. 1). Tergite 1 blackish grey with pair of small ill-defined whitish yellow lateral patches; tergite 2 largely blackish grey with pair of narrow pale lateral patches in anterior 3/5 and pair of broad pale dorso-lateral patches in posterior 2/5; tergites 3-7 dull whitish to brownish yellow with base and apex greyish black and connected trapezoidally along midline, this connection narrow in tergite 3, wider and illdefined in tergites 4 and 5, wide and better defined in tergite 6 and very wide and welldefined in tergite 7; tergite 8 almost completely black; tergite 9 greyish to brownish yellow with only apical lobes black. Sternites pale to dark greyish yellow.

G e n i t a l i a ( Figs 2-5 ). Tergite 9 distinctly bilobed; outer gonostylus bifid; inner gonostylus apically distinctly enlarged;

Figs 1: Dolichopeza reidi nov.sp., male, aedeagus long, thin, tubular with curvature wings, body and part of legs, dorsal. not rigid and apex not profoundly bifid, adminiculum well developed; sternite 9 not produced into distinct pair of lobes.

D i m e n s i o n s. Wing length 9.3 mm; body length 9.0 mm.

Female unknown.

E t y m o l o g y. The species is dedicated to its collector Dr. Chris Reid (Australian Museum).

Figures

Figs 2-5: Dolichopeza reidi nov.sp., male: (2, 3) hypopygium, dorsal; (4) posterior abdominal segments, lateral; (5) left gonostyli, lateral.