Thailand Agromyzidae (Diptera) — 2
Author
Sasakawa, Mitsuhiro
text
Zootaxa
2013
3746
4
501
528
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3746.4.1
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1175-5326
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Melanagromyza ancyla
sp. nov.
(
Figs 3–8
)
Type
material
.
Holotype
male (QBSG), Sakon Nakhon, Phu Phan National Park, 17˚03.488´N, 103˚58.497´E,
318 m
a.s.l.,
27 vii–2 viii 2006
, Malaise trap, Sailom Tongboonchai.
Diagnosis
. Black; mesoscutum and abdomen shining, but without metallic luster; wing 2.0 mm long, ultimate section of CuA1 slightly shorter than penultimate section,
calypter with brown fringe; surstylus with 40 long spines on inner anteroventral part; basiphallus and distiphallus each U-shaped in ventral view; ejaculatory apodeme cotyledonous in outline.
Description
. MALE. Black; frons and ocellar triangle matt; lunule sparsely grayish pruinose; arista brown; thorax very sparsely gray-dusted, mesoscutum shining, mesopleural suture brownish white; abdomen strongly shining. Wing hyaline; veins whitish brown at bases; calypter brownish white, with margin and fringe brown.
Frons 1.4 times as wide as eye, converging ventrally; parafrontalia slightly and parafacialia linearly projecting beyond eye margin in profile;
ors
and
ori
each two;
oh
reclinate, in row; ocellar triangle with ventral tip extending beyond level of second
ors
; lunule lower than semicircle; face with carina low, only distinct between antennal bases and shortly ventrad of bases; eye 1.6 times as high as wide, bare; gena 1/6 as high as eye;
vi
shorter than second
ori
;
pm
five or six, setula-like, a setula above
vi
. First antennal flagellomere round, slightly shorter than wide, minutely pilose; arista shorter that eye height, microscopically pubescent.
Mesoscutum with 0+ 2
dc
, eight rows of
acr
anteriorly but six rows behind level of anterior
dc
; scutellum with apical
sc
slightly shorter than basal
sc
. Wing 2.0 mm long; costa extending to M1, with three sections in proportion of 30: 10: 9; r-m beyond midpoint of discal cell (9: 5); M1 ratio 4.6; ultimate section of CuA1 4/5 as long as penultimate section (12: 15). Mid tibia with one or two
pd
.
S6 1.5
times as wide as long, with very shallow emargination posteriorly. Epandrium with surstylus (
Fig. 3
) incurved, almost as wide as epandrial length at base, slightly projecting anteroventrally, bearing 40 long spines in three irregular rows along inner-ventral margin and on anteroventral projection, and two rows extending dorsally along anteroventral margin; cercus 1/2 as high as epandrium; proctiger (
Fig. 4
) shield-like. Hypandrium (
Fig. 5
) 310 µm long, with basal apodeme nearly 1/3 as long as sidearm; pregonite with several sensillae. Phallapodeme 550 µm long; phallic hood 100 µm long, well-chitinized on lateroproximal 2/3. Phallus (
Figs 6, 7
) 310 µm long, basiphallus and distiphallus each U-shaped basally in ventral view, mesophallus with distal tube slightly swollen distally; ejaculatory apodeme (
Fig. 8
) 190 µm long, weakly chitinized, expanded alula-like (70 µm wide).
FEMALE. Unknown.
FIGURES 1–8
. Male genitalia of
Agromyza flavisquama
Malloch
(1, 2) and
Melanagromyza ancyla
sp
.
nov
.
(3–8, holotype). 1, 6, phallus, lateral view; 2, 7, phallus, ventral view; 3, surstylus, inner view; 4, proctiger, ventral view; 5, hypandrium, left half of ventral view; 8, ejaculatory apodeme, lateral view. Scale 0.1 mm.
Distribution
.
Thailand
.
Remarks
. This species distinctly differs from
Melanagromyza pandiculata
sp
.
nov
.
in the characters stated in the key (couplet 22). The phallic structure of this species is similar to that of
Melanagromyza pasiensis
Spencer
(1986: figs 13, 14), but this species is easily recognized by its black mesoscutum and abdomen without greenish sheen, and dark fringe on the calypter. The distal tube of the mesophallus is also distinctive in having a bend at middle and a swelling on the tip, whereas in
pasiensis
, it is almost straight and not swollen distally. Moreover, the coloration of
pasiensis
is more similar to that of
M. albisquama
described above.
Etymology
. The specific name refers to the bend (Greek:
ankyle
) in the mesophallic tube.