Revision of the genus Conicera Meigen (Diptera, Phoridae) from China
Author
Liu, Guang-Chun
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9.
Conicera spinifera
Liu
(
Figs. 9A–E
,
29E
)
Conicera spinifera
Liu, 2000: 169
(
♂
,
China
:
Guangxi
).
Description.
Male. Body length
0.9 mm
. Frons dark brown. Supra-antennal setae present. Lower fronto-orbital setae absent. Lower interfrontal setae shorter than upper interfrontal setae and the distance between each other equaled to that between upper interfrontal setae. First flagellomere dark brown,
0.17 mm
long, with an aspect ratio of 2.07:1; arista
0.24 mm
long, 1.44 times as long as that of first flagellomere. Palpus dark brown, slender, with short setae apically.
FIGURES 9A–E.
C. spinifera
Liu.
, male. A–C. terminalia; A. posterior view; B. right view; C. ventral view; D. left surstylus; E. right surstylus. Scale bars= 0.1 mm.
Thorax yellowish brown. Fore and mid legs yellowish brown, hind leg brown. Fore tibia with 10 small neardorsal setulae, the uppermost being longer than the rest. Fore tarsus with posterodorsal setal palisade on all five tarsomeres. Mid femur without sense-organ. Wing (
Fig. 29E
) length1.0–
1.12 mm
. Costal index 0.42, costal ratio
1.43:1, costal setulae length
0.026
–0.032
mm
. Rs without basisetula. Veins brown, except A
1
+CuA
2
whitish gray. Membrane light grayish brown. Halter dark brown.
Abdominal tergites dark brown. Terminalia (
Figs. 9A–C
) brown. Left surstylus (
Figs. 9B, D
) square, dorsal corner with 3 long, pointed inner teeth. Right surstylus (
Figs. 9C, E
) paralleled basally, and beak-shaped apically,
with 3 long, curved inner teeth.
Female. Unknown.
Specimens examined.
1♂
(
holotype
),
Guangxi
,
Longsheng
,
26-May-1992
,
Guangchun Liu
,
Min Wang
;
1 ♂
,
Guangxi
,
Mt. Daming
,
14-Jul-2018
, Jianfeng Wang
.
Distribution.
China
(
Guangdong
,
Guangxi
).
Remarks.
In the key of
Disney (1990)
, this species runs to couplets 8, to
C. torautensis
Disney, 1990
, but it differs from the latter by a beak-shaped apex of right surstylus and its three long, curved inner teeth.