Mohrigia inflata Shi & Huang, 2017

Xu, Jun, Shi, Kai, Huang, Junhao & Wu, Hong, 2017, Review of the genus Mohrigia Menzel (Diptera, Sciaridae) from China, Zootaxa 4300 (1), pp. 71-98 : 78-81

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.4
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C116DDFE-623A-4B2A-9AE6-1F7421FFBEE6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6031788
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/635987A0-FFB4-3F70-FF60-68AB49D25AD1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Mohrigia inflata Shi & Huang
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Mohrigia inflata Shi & Huang View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs 4 View FIGURE 4 , 15 View FIGURE 15 B, 16)

Lycoriella longirostris Yang, Zhang & Yang, 1995: 210 View in CoL and 211 (misidentification, in part).

Material examined. Holotype, male. CHINA . Hubei, Mts. Shennongjia, Yinyuhe, sweep-net, 16-V-2012, leg. Kai Shi [SM01637]. Paratypes, Zhejiang. Kaihua , Mt. Gutianshan : 2 males, 17-VII-1992, leg. Xue-Xin Chen [SM10009, SM10011] ; 1 male, yellow pan trap, 21-VII-1992, leg. Hong Wu [SM10010] (all males labeled as paratypes of Lycoriella longirostris, Yang, Zhang & Yang, 1995 ). 1 male, Anji, Mt. Longwangshan , sweep-net, 1- V-2012, leg. Kai Shi [SM01605].

Diagnosis. T he species is characterized by its ovate gonostylus with a strong apical tooth arising from a strong dorsal lobe, three flagellate setae on the ventral mesial margin of gonostylus; hypopygium with a small conical setose intercoxal lobe; tegmen slightly and smoothly curved, parameral apodeme continuously sclerotized forming a central strip on dorsal side and laterally sclerotized.

Description (male). Head dark brown; antenna, thorax, abdomen and hypopygium brown; palps pale brown; legs yellowish-brown; wings fumose.

Head ( Figs 4 View FIGURE 4 C, D). Eye bridge with 3 rows of facets. Prefrons with 15 setae. Clypeus with 1–3 setae. Maxillary palps 3-segmented, basal segment with 2 setae. Length/width index of 4th flagellomere: 2.60–3.54.

Thorax. Anterior pronotum with 3–6 setae, episternum 1 with 5–7 setae. Wings ( Fig. 15 View FIGURE 15 B). Wing length 2.12– 2.32 mm, width/length: 0.42–0.47. c/w: 0.61–0.72. R1/R: 0.70–0.80. M, stM and CuA nonsetose. r-m with 0–4 setae. Legs ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E). Length of spur/width of foretibia 0.87–1.10. Length of femur/length of metatarsus: foreleg 1.17–1.48. Length of metatarsus/length of tibia: foreleg 0.56–0.64, hind leg 0.48–0.54. Length of hind tibia/length of thorax 1.14–1.39. Claws toothed.

Hypopygium ( Figs 4 View FIGURE 4 A, B). The gonocoxite as long as the gonostylus. The gonostylus ovate, densely setose on the apicoventral part, with a strong apical tooth arising from a strong dorsal lobe, three flagellate setae on the ventral mesial margin of gonostylus present. Hypopygium with a small conical setose intercoxal lobe. Tegmen slightly and smoothly curved, parameral apodeme continuously sclerotized forming a central strip on dorsal side and laterally sclerotized. Aedeagus relatively short. Sternite 10 with 1 seta on each half.

Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Hubei, Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 ).

Remarks. Three paratypes of Lycoriella longirostris , are here treated as M. inflata sp. nov. The argument for the misidentification is discussed above in the remarks of M. megalocornuta ( Mohrig & Menzel, 1992) .

The new species is similar to M. globulosa ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C) in both having a much inflated gonostylus, but the gonostylus is relatively ovate in this specis, and nearly spherical in M. globulosa . Difference is also seen in the shape of the tegmen, which is smoothly curved in M. inflata , while triangular in M. globulosa .

Etymology. This species is named after its inflated gonostylus, from the Latin adjective inflatus, meaning inflated.