A survey of the genus Phortica Schiner from Kenya, Africa (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
Author
Prigent, Stéphane
Author
Chen, Hong-Wei
text
Zootaxa
2008
1773
18
30
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182195
da9db51b-4662-4ea2-8cb4-3c433fa6b436
1175-5326
182195
Phortica
(
Phortica
)
unispina
sp. nov.
(
Figs 23–26
)
Type
material.
Holotype
ɗ (
MNHN
):
KENYA
- labeled “Kakamega equatorial forest,
11.x.2002
, S. Prigent”.
Etymology
. A combination of the Latin words: unus and spina, referring to the aedeagal median rod ending in a single spine.
Diagnosis
. Aedeagal median rod nearly straight, pointed apically (
Fig. 26
); paramere apically slightly sclerotized, pointed, basally expanded (
Fig. 26
); vertical process of gonopods: right and left, lateral lobe each with a less sclerotized projections (
Fig. 26
).
Description
. Male: Eyes brown-red. Ocellar triangle black. Frons brown, with 2 rows of thick dense setae. Fronto-orbital plate yellow-brown. Pedicel and first flagellomere almost grey-yellow; arista plumose, expanded apically, without ventral branches (
Fig. 23
). Face yellow-brown on upper 1/2, dark brown on lower 1/2. Clypeus medially white-yellow, laterally black. Gena and postgena brown to dark brown. Palpus brown basally, grey-yellow distally. Thorax and scutellum orange-brown, with black patches and pollinose pattern. Legs yellow except for fore femur brownish; fore tarsomere V with 1 long seta apically. Abdominal tergites I+II yellow; the rest brown. Sternites III to VI slightly longer than respective width. Male terminalia: Epandrium mid-dorsally constricted, laterally broadened, triangularly protruded on ventral margin, with dense setae (
Fig. 24
). Surstylus with numerous setae and approximately 11 small prensisetae on ventral margin to inner surface (
Fig. 25
). Paramere apically pointed, not knobbed, basally broadened, with 4 sensilla (
Fig. 26
). Vertical process of gonopods strongly sclerotized, asymmetrical bifurcated to lateral lobes, which connected to base of gonopods by a pair of rod-like bridges; right and left, lateral lobe each with three projections (
Fig. 26
). Aedeagal median rod single, strongly sclerotized (
Fig. 26
).
Measurements
. BL =
2.30 mm
in
holotype
; ThL = 1.00 mm; WL =
1.95 mm
; WW =
0.90 mm
. Indices: arb = 2–3/0, adf = 1.00, flw = 1.30, FW/HW = 0.40, ch/o = 0.06, prorb = (damaged), rcorb = (damaged), vb = 0.45, dcl = 0.65, presctl = 0.80, sctl = 1.00, sterno = 1.10, orbito = 1.50, dcp = 0.25, sctlp = 1.20, C = 2.35, 4c = 1.31,
4v
= 2.46,
5x
= 1.00, ac = 2.83, M = 0.62, C3F = 0.58.
Distribution
.
Kenya
.