A review of the Oriental species of Cothornobata Czerny (Diptera, Micropezidae, Eurybatinae)
Author
Li, Xuankun
Author
Marshall, Stephen A.
Author
Yang, Ding
text
Zootaxa
2015
4006
2
201
246
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.1
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1175-5326
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4.
Cothornobata ingensfurca
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 6
)
Diagnosis.
See diagnosis for species group.
Description. Male.
Body length
8.5 mm
, wing length 7.0 mm.
Head mostly subshiny blackish-brown with very thin gray pollinosity. Frontal vitta brown with yellow apex, densely microsetulose, about 1/2 width of frons; lower orbital plate dull pollinose; ocellar triangle black; lunule orange; face pale yellow, densely microsetulose; gena light brown, lightly pollinose; clypeus uniformly brown, shiny and bare, except posterolateral portions of clypeus covered with fine white setulae. Setae and setulae on head black; postgena with 1 strong seta at lower margin. Antenna brownish-yellow; first flagellomere 1.2X as long as broad; pedicel without any long, strong ventral apical seta; arista nearly 3.0X length of first flagellomere, brown except base yellow, bare. Proboscis brown with blackish apex, setulae brown to black. Palpus brownish-yellow, setulae black.
Thorax mostly reddish-brown, notum darker, proepisternum, proepimeron anteroventrally, and antepisternum centrally blackish-brown; lightly pollinose. Scutellum slightly convex, angled dorsally. Setae on thorax black, setulae blackish; katepisternum with 3 strong setae.
Legs mostly dark yellow, except hind coxae brown, apical 1/4 of fore femur black, apical 1/5 of mid and hind femora brown; fore tibia black with apical 1/5 yellow, mid and hind tibiae yellow to brown with base darker; tarsi yellow to brown with apex darker.
Wing dark brown with distal and discal bands dark brown; distal band basal to middle of distal section of M1; discal band along M1 but posterior to R4+5, basal to middle of penultimate section of M1. Bm-cu proximal to CuA2; A1+CuA2 2.3X as long as CuA2; distance between apex of R2+3 and R4+5 0.5X as long as M1 beyond dm-cu (
Fig. 6
C). Halter pale yellow with blackish-brown base.
FIGURE 6.
Cothornobata ingensfurca
sp. nov.
, male.
A,
left lateral;
B,
head;
C,
wing;
D,
genital fork;
E,
genitalia, left lateral;
F,
genitalia, posterior;
G,
aedeagus and associated structures, left lateral;
H,
aedeagus and associated structures, ventral. Scale bars = 1 mm.
Abdomen blackish-brown, lightly pollinose. Pleural colour not visible on available material. Epandrium brownish-yellow posteriorly, shiny dorsally, miscrosetulose laterally. Genital fork relatively large and broadly arched, with long black ventral setae; arm large, basal tubercles weak, not contiguous, medial tubercle absent (
Fig. 6
D). Ejaculatory apodeme of sperm pump relatively small, shaped like a ginkgo leaf. Distiphallus as long as phallapodeme, terminating in curved filaments, not inflated apically. Pregonite expanded. Postgonite narrow and apically out-turned, without an acute bend (
Fig. 6
GH).
Female.
Unknown.
Type
material.
HOLOTYPE
:
CHINA
,
Yunnan Province
: Tengchong,
31.v.2007
, Xingyue Liu (♂,
CAU
).
Distribution. Oriental:
China
(Yunnan).
Remarks.
Cothornobata ingensfurca
differs markedly from congeners by having a black fore tibia with a yellow tip, and a genital fork that is wider than the abdomen.
Etymology.
The specific name refers to the large genital fork.