A revision of Frutillaria Richards and Penola Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Archiborborinae)
Author
Kits, Joel H.
Author
Marshall, Stephen A.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2863
1
34
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.203208
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1175-5326
203208
Frutillaria chiloensis
sp. n.
(
Figs. 20–22
,
110
)
Description.
Length: N/A (head + thorax 0.7–1.0 mm)
Occiput brown, face orange, frons and gena intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and first flagellomere orange, pedicel brown. Clypeus and prementum orange.
Thorax black, postalar callus reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, anterior, posterior, and dorsal. Katepisternum with shiny spot behind coxa not extending posteriorly toward bristle; posterior part of katepisternum, meron and metapleuron shiny with exception of a stripe of microtomentum between posterior thoracic spiracle and base of hind coxa. Laterotergite mostly shiny.
FIGURES 16–22.
Frutillaria
male genitalia.
F. chepuensis
: (16) cerci and surstylus, posterior view; (17) surstylus, anterior view, (18) phallus, lateral view, (19) postgonite, lateral view;
F. chiloensis
: (20) phallus and postgonite, lateral view, (21) cerci and surstyli, posterior view, (22) surstylus, anterior view.
Legs black, joints narrowly orange, tarsi and trochanters orange; fore femur mostly microtomentose posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.
Male
abdomen (
Figs. 20–22
): Inner arm of surstylus broadened at apex, outer corner not strongly projecting. Postgonite with lobes barely separated, both lobes thin, posterior lobe about
2x
length of anterior. Epiphallus and preepiphallus both well-developed. Distiphallus with lateral arms thin apically, pointed at tip. central projecting sclerite with a ventral disc-like sclerite, and a medial bearing ridges near apex. Ventral sacs well-developed, sclerotized.
Female unknown.
Type
material.
Holotype
3:
CHILE
:
Los Lagos:
Chiloé Is., Lago Tepuhueico, SE edge,
42°48'06"S
73°55'24"W
,
50 m
, Valdivian rainforest,
FMHD
#97-22, berlese, leaf & log litter,
15 Jan 1997
, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (
MNNC
).
Paratypes
: Chiloé Is., Miraflores, road to, 0.6 km W Hwy 5,
42
°46'42"S
73°47'42"W
,
130 m
, secondary Valdivian rainforest,
FMHD
#97-25, berlese, leaf & log litter,
17 Jan 1997
, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (2 3,
FMNH
); Chiloé Is., Miraflores, road to, 0.6 km W Ruta 5,
42
°46'44"S
73°47'42"W
,
130 m
, secondary Valdivian rainforest w/few conifers,
FMHD
#2002-077, berlese, leaf & log litter,
12 Dec 2002
A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (3 3,
FMNH
); Chiloé Is., Colonia Yungay, road to, ca.
4 km
NW Ruta 5,
42
°59'07"S
73°42'01"W
,
100–115 m
, disturbed Valdivian rainforest w/recent selective cutting,
FMHD
#2002-078, berlese, leaf & log litter,
13 Dec 2002
, A.
Y
. Solodovnikov & M.K. Thayer (1 3,
FMNH
).
Comments.
The species name refers to this species’ apparent restriction to Chiloé
Island
.