Six new species of the genus Pseudostegana (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from the Oriental region
Author
Li, Tong
Author
Gao, Jianjun
Author
Chen, Hongwei
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-05-24
44
23 - 24
1401
1418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222931003679584
journal article
10.1080/00222931003679584
1464-5262
5209709
Pseudostegana bilobata
sp. nov.
(
Figure 1C,D
;
2B
;
4
)
Diagnosis
Medial, dark band much broadened and with one distinct, protruded part submedially (
Figure 2B
); paramere shallow split apically in lateral view (
Figure 4E
).
Figure 4.
Pseudostegana bilobata
sp. nov.
, male. (A) epandrium, cercus and surstylus; (B) surstylus; (C) cercus; (D,E) hypandrium, paramere, gonopods, aedeagus and aedeagal apodeme. For orientations and organizations see Figure 3. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Description
Only important characters are given here.
Head.
Ocellar triangle mostly brownish black, brown on lower a quarter. Frons brown. Pedicel greyish brown above, greyish yellow below; first flagellomere greyish yellow on inner one-third, dark brown on outer two-thirds. Face brownish black. Clypeus dark brown. Gena brown. Palpus brown and slender, rod-shaped in male.
Thorax
. Scutum yellow on anterior half, brown on posterior half. Pleura brown to black. Katepisternal setae two. Scutellum brown.
Legs.
Yellow, black on knee joints of mid- and hindlegs.
Abdomen
. Tergites glossy, yellow on first and second, dark brown on the rest. Sternites greyish yellow.
Male terminalia.
Epandrium roundly protruded on ventral margin, with about 23 setae (
Figure 4A
). Surstylus protruded on posteroventral corner (
Figure 4A,B
).
Cercus ventrally round (
Figure 4A,B
). Aedeagus apically sclerotized, round in ventral view, pointed in lateral view (
Figure 4D,E
).
Measurements
BL =
2.87 mm
in
holotype
, ThL =
1.44 mm
, WL =
2.63 mm
, WW =
1.16 mm
, arb = 6/1, avd = 0.86, adf = 1.75, flw = 2.50, FW/HW = 0.39, ch/o = 0.08, prorb = 1.00, vb = 0.71, dcl = 0.22, sctl = damaged, sterno = 0.75, orbito = 0.58, dcp = 0.20, sctlp = 1.00, C = 2.04, 4c = 1.77, 4v = 3.30, 5x = 0.82, ac = 14.4, M = 0.69, C3F = 0.81.
Type material
Holotype
male (
SCAU
, No. 120554),
China
:
Puer
,
Yunnan
,
22°47′ N
,
101°02′ E
, altitude
1400 m
,
18 September 2007
, swept over tussock,
J.J. Gao.
Etymology
From the Latin words:
bi
- plus
lobatus
, referring to the paramere apically shallowly bifurcated.
Distribution
China
(
Yunnan
).