Pseudolycoriella senticosa, Vilkamaa, Pekka, Hippa, Heikki & Mohrig, Werner, 2012

Vilkamaa, Pekka, Hippa, Heikki & Mohrig, Werner, 2012, The genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3207, pp. 1-21 : 10

Pseudolycoriella senticosa sp. n.

Figs 6 A–D

Material studied. Holotype male. NEW CALEDONIA, Rivière Bleue N.P., humid forest, 15–29.ix.1986, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Tillier (in MNHN). Paratypes. 1 male, Rivière Bleue N.P., (parc 7), rainforest, 21.vii.1992, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Guilbert (in PWMP), 1 male, Vallée de la Coulée, 166°35’E, 22°10’S, 40 m, maquis, 24.x.1985, Bouchet (in MZH).

Description. Male. Head. Brown, antenna pale brown except flagellomere 1 and 2 yellow, maxillary palpus pale brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Face with 24 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 5 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 palpomeres; palpomere 3 longer than palpomere 1, palpomere 2 shortest; palpomere 1 with 2–4 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres rough, flagellomere 4 ( Fig. 6 A) 1.7x as long as wide, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Brown, setae dark. Anterior pronotum with 2 setae. Episternum 1 with 4 setae. Scutum with short dorsocentrals, with 2–3 stronger laterals, scutellum with 2 longer and some short setae. Wing. Hyalinous. Length 2.2 mm. Width/length 0.40. Veins distinct. R1/R 0.95. c/ w 0.55 –0.60. r-m and than bM subequal in length, both r-m and bM non-setose. Halter pale brown. Legs. Brown, slightly paler than thorax. Coxal setae pale. Apical part of front tibia, Fig. 6 B: tibial organ with pale fine vestiture forming a curved row with some scattered elements. Front tibial spur slightly longer than the tibial width. Claws with teeth. Abdomen. Brown, setae dark and strong. Hypopygium, Figs 6 C– D. Brown, concolorous with abdomen. Gonocoxa longer than gonostylus, mesial margin with short sparse setosity. Gonostylus straight, club-shaped, with the mesial side weakly impressed; with a dense apical vestiture, with three slender megasetae, with a long subapical whiplash seta. Tegmen apically conical, laterally straight, with a weakly sclerotized apical process.

Discussion. See under Pseudolycoriella tribulosa .

Etymology. The name is Latin, senticosa , thorny, referring to the rough apical setosity of the gonostylus.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Pseudolycoriella senticosa sp. n. (A paratype, B – D holotype). A. Antennal flagellomere 4, lateral view. B. Apical part of front tibia, prolateral view. C. Part of hypopygium, ventral view. D. Gonostylus, ventral view. Scale 0.1 mm.