Taxonomic study of the genus Eloeophila Rondani, 1856 of Japan (Limoniidae Diptera)
Author
Kato, Daichi
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-07-01
4995
3
425
451
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4995.3.2
1175-5326
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Eloeophila verrucosa
Savchenko, 1976
(
Fig. 13F
)
Eloeophila verrucosa
Savchenko
, in
Savchenko and Krivolutskaya, 1976: 60
.
Type
locality:
Kuril Islands
,
Kunashir Is
, near
Alekhino
.
Eloeophila verrucosa
:
Nakamura (2014: 13)
;
Oosterbroek (2021)
.
Short description (from original description).
General coloration dark brown.
Head.
Vertex greyish.
Thorax.
Without distinct marking. Wing tinged with dark brown, stigma pale brown. Legs with coxa, trochanters and bases of femora dusky yellow. Halter long, pale yellow.
Abdomen.
Sternites dirty yellow; male tergite 8 with long rectangular lobe at middle of posterior margin. Male terminalia with gonocoxite bearing three lobes dorsally; each tip of these lobes with tufts of long setae. Outer gonstylus rod-shaped with small claw-shaped lobe at tip. Paramere with mesal-apical lobe blade-shaped, truncated obliquely at tip, about twice as long as wide. Male body length:
5.5 mm
. Wing length: 6.0 mm.
Distribution.
Kuril Islands (Kunashir Is) (
Fig. 13F
).
Remarks.
See remarks in
E. tergilobellus
sp. nov.
for comparison to similar species.