Acidiella longipennis Hendel, the type species of Acidiella Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetini), with recognition of two new allied species from Myanmar
Author
Han, Ho-Yeon
text
Zootaxa
2011
2810
15
25
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.203078
8d14bb29-0f06-458f-9d2c-b27ffaa63962
1175-5326
203078
Acidiella spinipenis
Han
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 1B
,
2B
,
3C
, H, 4B, 5C)
Description.
Male
. Body(
Fig. 1B
) almost entirely shiny to subshiny yellow brown except for dark brown ocellar tubercle and abdominal pattern; setulae and setae mostly dark brown; wing length
4.7–5.2 mm
; thorax length 1.6– 2.0 mm. Head (
Fig. 2B
) with frons-head ratio 0.35–0.38, eye ratio 0.75–0.79, gena-eye ratio 0.11–0.13, aristaantenna ratio 1.4–1.5; medial vertical seta about 0.8x longest diameter of eye; lateral vertical seta 0.6x as long as medial vertical seta; postocellar seta about 0.4x as long as medial vertical seta; paravertical seta about half as long as postocellar seta; ocellar seta about twice as long as ocellar tubercle; first flagellomere 2.2–2.4x pedicel length; parafacial less than 0.2x as wide as first flagellomere; postgena moderately swollen with relatively long dark brown setulae; postocular setae extended 0.6x distance from upper eye margin to lower eye margin. Thorax with dorsocentral seta about 4/5 distance from level of postsutural supra-alar seta to intra-alar seta; scutellum with basal scutellar seta about 2.6x as long as scutellum and apical seta 2.2x as long as scutellum. Legs entirely yellow brown with dark brown setae and setulae. Wing (
Figs. 1B
,
3C
) hyaline with yellow brown to dark brown pattern; cell dm with brown band approximately between apical 2/5–1/5; wing-thorax ratio 2.6–3.0, vein R4+5 ratio 1.6–1.7, vein M ratio 0.33–0.37, subcosta-costa ratio 0.50–0.55; R4+5 dorsally with 7 tiny setulae between node and R-M, no setula apical to R-M. Abdomen yellow brown in ground color with dark brown setae and setulae; T1+2 entirely yellow brown and T3–5 dark brown (
Fig. 3
H); epandrium (
Fig. 4B
) dark brown with tiny setulae and long dark brown setae; lateral surstylus slightly longer than height of epandrium, yellow brown with more or less pointed apex in profile; posterior surstylar lobe reduced and anterior surstylar lobe expanded and bent inward; proctiger pale yellow with brown to dark brown setae; dorsal sclerite of glans extensively with internal sculpture pattern of elongated cells (
Fig. 5C
); vesica of glans ventrally with 8 tiny spines.
Female
unknown.
FIGURE 3. A–D.
Wings.
A.
Acidiella longipennis
, holotype male.
B.
A. longipennis
, Myanmar male;
C.
A. spinipenis
,
sp. nov.
,
holotype male.
D.
A. kambaitiensis
,
sp. nov.
,
holotype male.
E–J.
Abdomens.
E.
A. longipennis
, holotype male.
F.
A. longipennis
, Myanmar male;
G.
A. longipennis
, Myanmar female.
H.
A. spinipenis
,
sp. nov.
,
holotype male.
I.
A. kambaitiensis
,
sp. nov.
,
female.
J.
A. kambaitiensis
,
sp. nov.
,
holotype male.
FIGURE 4. A–C.
Lateral and caudal view of epandrial complex.
A.
Acidiella longipennis
, holotype.
B.
A. spinipenis
,
sp. nov.
,
holotype.
C.
A. kambaitiensis
,
sp. nov.
,
holotype.
Type
material
.
Holotype
male,
MYANMAR
: Kambaiti,
2000 m
,
19.V.1934
, R. Malaise (adomen dissected and kept in a genitalia vial).
Paratypes
(same locality and collector as the
holotype
):
5.V.1934
, 1ɗ;
12.V.1934
, 1ɗ;
15.V.1934
, 1ɗ. The
type
series are deposited in
NRS
. They were originally determined and labeled as
A. longipennis
by M. Hering.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in the north eastern
Myanmar
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a noun derived from the Latin ‘spine’ and ‘penis’, referring to the spines on the vesica of glans (
Fig. 5C
).