Asphondylia singanallurensis Vasanthakumar & Sharma, 2020

Vasanthakumar, Duraikannu, Palanisamy, Senthilkumar, Peter, Vinny R. & Sharma, Radheshyam M., 2020, A new species of Asphondylia (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) causing leaf galls on jujube, Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Rhamnaceae) in India, Zootaxa 4758 (1), pp. 196-200 : 196

Asphondylia singanallurensis Vasanthakumar & Sharma , sp. nov.

( Figs 1–22 )

The diagnostic characters of the genus, Asphondylia are discussed in detail by Gagné et al. (2018).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (Ent 10/205), Singanallur Lake , Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India (10.9877°N; 77.0238°E),collected as gall by DV on 26.ix.2017 ; Paratype: 4 ♂ (Ent 10/206), collected as gall on 22.ix.2018, 3♀ (Ent 10/207), 6 larvae, collected as gall on 23.ix.2018), 6 pupae (Collected as gall on 22.ix.2018 and 12.vii.2019); 7 pupal exuviae same data as holotype .

Figures

FIGURES 1–10. Asphondylia singanallurensis Vasanthakumar & Sharma, sp. nov. 1, male head (frontal). 2, male, 5th flagellomere. 3, female, 5th flagellomere. 4, first tarsomere 5, male abdominal segments (lateral). 6, female abdominal segments (lateral). 7, last tarsomere with claw and empodium. 8, pupal abdominal segments (dorsal). 9, larva, prothoracic spatula with adjacent papillae. 10, male terminalia (dorsal). Scale bars=100 μm 1,5,6,8; 50 μm 2,3,7,9,10; 20 μm 4

FIGURES 11–22. 11, wing. 12, male flagellomere 10–12. 13, female flagellomere 10–12. 14, pupa, antennal horns 15, pupa, prothoracic spiracle. 16.pupa (dorsal). 17, Anterior part of pupa (ventral). 18, exit hole with pupal exuviae. 19, gall (dissected). 20, leaf gall. 21, gall (upper side). 22, gall (lower side). Scale bars=100 μm 11, 14; 50 μm 15; 500 μm 16.