Revision of the genus Dohrniphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) from China
Author
Liu, Guang-Chun
text
Zootaxa
2015
3986
3
307
331
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3986.3.3
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1175-5326
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24.
Dohrniphora carinata
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 47–48
,
65
)
Male: Frons dark brown, broader than high, sub-shining, with sparse hairs. First row of bristles straight, antials 1.5 times as far apart as either is to an antero-lateral. Second row of bristles straight, all four being equidistant. Postpedicels yellowish brown, rounded-oval. Arista with relatively long hairs. Palp yellow, 3 times as long as its width, with 4–5 apical bristles and 7–14 short hairs on ventral face. Thorax. Scutum dark brown, with sparse hairs. Scutellum dark brown, with 2 bristles and 2 hairs. Wing length
1.75–1.77 mm
. Costal index 0.47. Costal ratios 5.55:1.88:1. Costal cilia
0.02mm
. Veins brown and membrane pale. Membrane light grey. Halter brown. Legs brown. Fore tibia with 4 dorsal bristles, of which the upmost is the longest. Dorsal hair palisade of mid tibia extends 1/3 (0.37) of its length.
Hind
tibia without isolated bristles before apical apex.
Hind
femur brown. Posterior face of hind femur with 5 peg-like bristles, more distally are shallow area, which a transverse carina.
Hind
coxal lobes not obvious. At the middle of posterior face is a fish-scale like structure. Abdomen. Tergites and terminalia dark brown. Venter and Cercus brown.
Female. Similar as male. Wing length
1.12mm
, Costal index 0.52, ratios 7.8:2.9:1, cilia
0.02mm
. Rostra long. Abdominal tergites brown, only yellow on middle of tergite H; Tergite H is the largest, and the other smaller gradually, tergites v – ∏ wanting.
Holotype
: ♂, Shaanxi, Qinling (N 33°46′,E 108°49′,
1935m
),
14-VII-2013
, Yunlong Cai,
Paratype
:
1♂
1♀, same data as
holotype
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the transverse carina on posterior face of hind femur.
Remarks.
In Disney’s key (1990a), the species runs to couplets to 9 to
D. spriggsi
Disney
, and to 31 to
D. atratula
. It can be distinguished from the two species by having a strong carina beyond the group of peg-like bristles.