Pseudolycoriella latiflagellata, 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 : 8-9

Pseudolycoriella latiflagellata sp. n.

Figs 4 A–D

Material studied. Holotype male. NEW CALEDONIA, Rivière Bleue N.P., (parc 6), rainforest, 16.vii.1992, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Guilbert (in MNHN). Paratypes. 5 males, same data as holotype (in MNHN), 1 male, same data as previous but 20.i.1993 (in PWMP), 1 male, same data as previous but 21.vii.1992 (in SMNH), 1 male, Vallée de la Coulée, 166°35’E, 22°10’S, 40 m, maquis, 24.x.1985, Ph. Bouchet (in MZH).

Description. Male. Head. Brown, antenna unicolorous pale brown, maxillary palpus pale brown. Eye bridge 3(2) facets wide. Face with 7–17 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 2–4 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 palpomeres; palpomere 1 longer than palpomere 3, palpomere 2 shortest; palpomere 1 with 2–5 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres rough, flagellomere 4 ( Fig. 4 A) 1.1–1.5x as long as wide, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Pale brown, setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 4–6 setae. Episternum 1 with 5–8 setae. Scutum with short dorsocentrals, with 2–3 stronger laterals, scutellum with 2 longer and some short setae. Wing. Hyalinous. Length 1.1–1.3 mm. Width/ length 0.45–0.50. Veins indistinct. R1/R 0.50–0.80. c/ w 0.65 –0.80. r-m and than bM subequal in length, both r-m and bM non-setose. Halter pale brown. Legs. Yellow. Coxal setae pale. Apical part of front tibia, Fig. 4 B: tibial organ with pale fine vestiture forming a large demarcated patch. Front tibial spur slightly shorter than the tibial width. Claws with teeth. Abdomen. Brown, setae pale and short. Hypopygium, Figs 4 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 two slender megasetae, with a long subapical whiplash seta. Tegmen apically conical, laterally straight, with a weakly sclerotized apical process.

Discussion. See under Pseudolycoriella acicula .

Etymology. The name is Latin, latiflagellata , with a broad flagellum, referring to the broad antennal flagellomeres.

Figures

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