Two new species of Limonia Meigen, 1803 from Northwest China (Diptera, Limoniidae)
Author
Ren, Jinlong
Key Laboratory of the Pest Monitoring and Safety Control on the Crop and Forest, College of Agronomy, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China & Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
rjlfly@foxmail.com
Author
Yang, Ding
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
text
ZooKeys
2020
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.971.35875
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.971.35875
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4.
Limonia stigma (Meigen, 1818)
Figures 26-28
, 29-32
, 33-34
Limnobia stigma
Meigen 1818
: 138.
Limnobia terrestris
Linnaeus 1758
: 586 (synonymy).
Limnobia sexnotata
Schumme 1829: 111 (synonymy).
Limnobia punctigera
Walker 1856
: 298 (synonymy).
Diagnosis.
Flagellar verticils black, 1.6 times longer than corresponding segment. Prescutum with one triangular, brown longitudinal stripe. Wing pale brown, with one small grayish black marking at R2; Sc1 apically reaching 1/2 of Rs. Gonocoxite long cylindrical. Gonostylus with sharp apex and swollen, hairy base. Paramere with fan-shaped base and blunt apex that ends at 1/2 of aedeagus. Aedeagus with Y-shaped pattern at mid-ventral margin. Female, hypogynial valve 2.3 times longer than wide at base.
Redescription.
Male (
n
= 19): body length 7-9 mm, wing length 8-9 mm.
Head
yellow (Figs
26-28
). Vertex yellow. Occiput dull yellow, covered with black setulae. Antenna yellow and 14-segmented; scape yellow; pedicel oval; flagellomeres cylindrical and bicolor, brown at base and pale yellow at apex; flagellar verticils black, 1.6 times longer than corresponding segment. Rostrum and nasus pale yellow, nasus 1/4 as long as rostrum. Labella pale yellow, with black setulae, except inner margin brown. Palpi yellow except terminal segment brown.
Figures 26-28.
Limonia stigma
, male
26
male habitus, lateral view
27
head and thorax, dorsal view
28
right wing. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.
Thorax
mostly yellow (Figs
17
,
18
). Cervical sclerite yellow with black margin at antero-lateral margin. Pronotum dark brown, with black setulae. Prescutum with one brown, triangular longitudinal stripe (anterior part wider than posterior part); two setulae and longitudinal rows at middle. Scutum pale yellow, with black, oblique setulae at middle. Scutellum white. Mediotergite pale yellow, variegated with white (Fig.
27
). Mesopleura pale yellow to yellow; subspiracular sclerite yellow; katepisternum with black setulae. Legs with coxae and trochanters yellow; femora dull yellow with one dark-brown subapical ring; tibiae brown with dark-brown subapical ring; tarsi brown to dark brown. Setulae on legs black. Wing hyaline, pale brown with one small grayish black marking at R2; Sc1 apically reaching 1/2 of Rs; basal deflection of CuA1 before branching point of M (Fig.
28
). Halter dull yellow; knob bicolor, with upper part dull yellow and lower part white (Fig.
26
).
Abdomen
mainly yellow (Fig.
26
). Sternite 7 reddish brown. Each abdominal segment with one pale-brown ring at posterior margin. Abdomen covered with golden setulae.
Hypopygium
yellow (Fig.
26
). Posterior margin of tergite 9 emarginated (Fig.
29
). Gonocoxite long cylindrical. Gonostylus with sharp apex and swollen and hairy base (Figs
29
,
30
). Paramere with fan-shaped base and blunt apex that ended at 1/2 of aedeagus (Figs
29-32
). Aedeagus forked; ventral margin with mid-protrusion triangular in lateral view; unique Y-shaped pattern at middle that anterior margin with short mid-protrusion (Figs
20-23
).
Figures 29-32.
Limonia stigma
, male
29
hypopygium, dorsal view
30
hypopygium, ventral view
31
hypopygium, lateral view
32
aedeagus and paramere. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Female
(
n
= 11): body length 7.5-9 mm, wing length 7.5-10 mm.
Female
resembling male in head, thorax, and wing. Female terminalia pale yellow. Cercus yellowish brown, slightly arched dorsally at apex, slender, and 3 times longer than wide at base. Hypogynial valve 2.3 times longer than wide at base; lateral margin with triangular black marking (Figs
33
,
34
).
Figures 33-34.
Limonia stigma
, female
33
cercus and hypogynial valves, lateral view
34
cercus and hypogynial valves, ventral view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm.
Material examined.
6 males, China: Xinjiang, Burqin, Hemu,
48.43N
,
87.57E
, elev. 1040 m, 2016.VII.21, Jinlong Ren (CAU). 13 males, 2 females, China: Xinjiang, Burqin, Hemu,
48.58N
,
87.45E
, elev. 1160 m, 2016.VII.21, Jinlong Ren (CAU). 32 males, 16 females, China: Xinjiang, Burqin, Hemu,
48.56N
,
87.44E
, elev. 1150 m, 2016.VII.22, Jinlong Ren (CAU). 10 males, 3 females, China: Xinjiang, Burqin, Hemu,
48.56N
,
87.44E
, elev. 1200 m, 2016.VII.23, Jinlong Ren (CAU).
Distribution.
Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, China (Xinjiang: Burqin), Czech Rep., Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine.
Remark.
This is the first report of this species from China.