Revision of Nearctic Paramyia Williston (Diptera: Milichiidae)
Author
Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie
Author
Mlynarek, Julia J.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-11
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Paramyia lutea
,
new species
(
Fig. 5-6
;
26
)
Description.
(
Fig 5
) Total length
♂
1.3 mm
,
♀
1.6-2.2 mm
. Overall colour yellowish, frontal triangle light brown to yellowish, shiny, almost reaching lunule; frons 1.1 times longer than wide and 2.2 times wider than flagellum; width at widest point 2.5 times the bottom eye width; gena yellowish and shiny, 0.29 times eye height; postgena yellowish and shiny and 0.32 width of head; scape and pedicel light brown, first flagellomere subquadrate, 1.3 times wider than long, dark grey around and yellowish at the base with pale pubescence, arista dark grey and 3.0 times width of first flagellomere; mild facial carina; palpus yellow with 4 enlarge setae apically, 1 longer ventral seta pre-apical and 4 short ventral setae, labium yellow
0.40 mm
and labella yellow
0.43 mm
long.
FIGURE 5.
Paramyia lutea
male (A) habitus, (B) head frontal, (C) head lateral; female (D) habitus, (E) head frontal, (F) head lateral. Scale bar: habitus = 1 mm, others = 0.2 mm.
FIGURE 6.
Paramyia lutea
male genitalia (A) lateral, (B) posterior, (C) surstylus. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.
Scutum shiny yellowish to light brown; scutellum yellowish; all legs yellowish; hind basitarsus equal length of tarsi 2-4 combined; haltere yellowish; wing
1.8 mm
long; abdomen shiny yellowish to light brown.
Male postabdomen (
Fig. 6
). Epandrium in lateral view 1.0 times wider than high, in posterior view 2.4 times wider than high (before cerci), small setae covering posterior portion of epandrium mixed with a low density of large setae; surstylus 0.4 times as high (at longest point) as epandrium, double-lobed tip, long setae apically; cerci large and pointed apically, 2.0 times length of surstylus in posterior view, with two pair of very long preapical setae.
Molecular barcode sequence can be accessed through GenBank Accession: [pending] and BOLD BIN: BOLD: ADP0751 (only 1 sequence).
Distribution
(
Fig. 26
). Southwestern United-States: Utah, New
Mexico
Type material.
Holotype
♂
.
UNITED STATES
:
New Mexico
:
Polio Carpio
,
Taos
,
13.ix.1965
,
R.G. Jones
(USNM) [USNMENT01204741].
Paratypes
.
UNITED STATES
:
Utah
:
Cache Co.
, USU
School Forest
,
41.77°N
,
111.79°W
,
1♀
,
28.vii.1977
(NHMLAC),
1♀
,
1.i-31.xii.1977
(NHMLAC),
Cache Co.
,
W. Hodges Canyon,
41.92°N
,
111.4°W
,
1♀
,
21.vii- 1.viii.2003
,
Hanson
,
Knowlton
(USNM),
2♀
,
28.vii-1.viii.2005
,
Hanson
,
Knowlton
(USNM),
1♀
,
11-19.vii.1983
,
Knowlton
,
Hanson
(USNM),
1♀
,
5-9.v.1994
,
Knowlton
,
Hanson
(USNM),
1♀
,
12-16.vii.1993
,
Hanson
, Knowl- ton (USNM),
1♀
,
4-8.viii.1978
,
Knowlton
,
Hanson
(USNM),
1♀
,
18-21.vii.1983
,
Hanson
,
Knowlton
(USNM),
1♀
,
5-12.viii.1971
,
Knowlton
,
Hanson
(USNM)
,
Summit Co.
,
Bear
riv. R.S.
3 mi.
SE,
40.92°N
,
110.83°W
,
4♀
,
5-12.viii.1971
,
Hanson
,
Knowlton
,
Malaise trap
(USNM),
1♀
,
6.vi-1.vii.1992
,
Hanson
,
Knowlton
,
Malaise trap
(USNM),
1♀
,
5-8.viii.2005
,
Hanson
,
Knowlton
,
Malaise trap
(USNM)
.
Etymology.
The epithet
lutea
comes from the Latin
luteus
meaning yellow, which refers to the color of the body.
Remarks.
Only two other described species of
Paramyia
are mostly yellow,
Paramyia flava
Papp, 2001
from
Indonesia
and
Paramyia latigena
Papp, 2001
from
Vietnam
.