Alluaudomyia debilipenis, Sinha & Mazumdar & Chaudhuri, 2005

Sinha, Saswati, Mazumdar, Abhijit & Chaudhuri, Prasanta K., 2005, New species of predaceous midges of the genus Alluaudomyia Kieffer, 1913 (Insecta, Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from the coastal region of West Bengal, India, Zoosystema 27 (1), pp. 115-122 : 116

Alluaudomyia debilipenis n. sp.

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: West Bengal, Haldia , 10.VI.1990, S. Sinha coll., ( NZC) . Paratypes: West Bengal, Nandigram , 18.VI.1993, S. Das coll., 1 spec. ( MNHN) ; 6 specs (data same as paratype) are retained with the junior authors .

ETYMOLOGY. — “ Debilipenis ” means feeble penis.

DESCRIPTION

Male

Wing length 0.81 (0.81-0.82, n = 5) mm, breadth 0.32 (n = 5) mm.

Head. Dark brown. Vertex with six setae. Eyes bare, narrowly separated. Antennal plume brown. Maxillary palpus ( Fig. 1A ) dark brown, pubescent and five-segmented, segment III elongated with small sub-apical sensory pits having three sensilla; segment V equal in length to segment III; length ratio of palpomeres I-V 3: 7: 9: 7: 9; PR 2.3.

Thorax. Brown to dark brown. Scutum medially and laterally brown with submedian dark brown vitae; prescutellar area and humeral area large and pale; scutellum pale brown; post scutellum dark brown.

Legs ( Fig. 1B ). Pale with brown bands; coxae and trochanters brown; fore and hind femora pale yellowish with subapical, median dark bands, mid femora with apical and median bands; all tibiae with apical, median and subbasal bands; fore and mid basitarsi pale but hind tarsomere I dark brown, rest of tar-

Figures

FIG. 1. — Alluaudomyia debilipenis n. sp.,; A, maxillary palpus; B, legs; C, hind tibial comb; D, wing; E, genitalia; F, parameres. Scale bars: A, 0.05 mm; D, 0.4 mm; E, 0.1 mm.