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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Ophiomyia flagellata
sp. nov.
(
Figs 46–48
)
Type
material.
Holotype
male (QSBG), Phetchabun, Khao Kho National Park, 16˚52.573´N, 101˚08.077´E,
520 m
a.s.l.,
26 x–2 xi 2006
, Malaise trap, Somchai Chatchumnan & Sa-ink Singtong.
Paratypes
:
2♂
, same data as
holotype
.
Diagnosis
. Shining black; calypter with fringe black; facial carina narrow, extending ventrally to oral margin; vibrissal fasciculus lacking; sursrtylus with about 28 spines in anteroventral corner; basiphallus with lateral sclerites joined basally by a ventral bridge, distiphallus with a whip-like process on left side.
Description
. MALE. Black; ocellar triangle and facial carina shining; lunule brown-tinged; mesoscutum and abdomen strongly shining. Wing hyaline; calypter brownish gray, with margin and fringe black.
Frons slightly wider than eye, converging ventrally; parafrontalia not projecting above eye in profile;
ors
and
ori
each two,
oh
rather long, reclinate; ocellar triangle with ventral tip pointed sharply, extending to level of second
ors
; lunule lower than semicircle; face with carina distinct, narrowly raised below bases of antennae, extending ventrally to oral margin; eye about 1.2 times as high as wide; gena 1/6–1/7 as high as eye;
vi
normal. First antennal flagellomere round, wider than genal height; arista almost as long as eye width, microscopically pubescent.
Mesoscutum with 0+2
dc
, eight rows of
acr
. Wing 1.8–2.2 (1.8) mm long; costa extending to M1, with three sections in proportion of 29–31: 8: 7; r-m beyond midpoint of discal cell (8: 4–5); M1 ratio 4.5–6.0; ultimate section of CuA1 1/2–3/4 as long as penultimate section (10–15: 22).
Epandrium with surstylus slightly projected anteriorly, bearing 27 or 28 spines and many long setae in anteroventral corner; cercus narrow, 2/3 as high as epandrium, with a row of five to seven stout setae anteroventrally. Hypandrium 220 µm long, without basal apodeme. Phallapodeme 530 µm long; phallus 360–370 µm long, basiphallus with narrow lateral sclerites joined by a bridge extending from midpoint of the left sclerite towards base of the right, distiphallus with two lobes laterally and a whip-like process on left lobe. Ejaculatory apodeme 180 µm long, blade asymmetrically expanded, 90 µm wide.
FIGURES 46–56
. Male grnitalia of
Ophiomyia flagellata
sp
.
nov
.
(46–48,holotype),
O
.
quadrifida
sp
.
nov
.
(49–53, holotype) and
O. striata
sp
.
nov
.
(54–56, holotype).
Body length 1.8–2.0 mm.
FEMALE. Unknown.
Distribution
.
Thailand
.
Remarks
. The coloration, wing length and characteristic form of the basiphallus of this species are somewhat similar to those of
Ophiomyia centrosematis
, but in the new species the facial carina is distinct, and the distiphallus bears a whip-like process on the left lobe; in
O
.
centrosematis
, the facial carina is quite absent, the basiphallic sclerites are isolated except for their base, and the distiphallic lobes are spinulose.
Etymology.
The specifc name refers to the whip-like (Latin:
flagellatus
) process on the distiphallus.