Ten new species of the genus Phortica from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
Author
Chen, Hongwei
Author
Máca, Jan
text
Zootaxa
2012
3478
493
509
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.282314
403ccc09-b698-4ed4-8950-195877c6fdc7
1175-5326
282314
Phortica
(
Ashima
)
eseta
Chen
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 4–7
)
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
P. afoliolata
Chen & Toda
in Chen
et al.
, 2005 from
China
and
Myanmar
, and
P. xishuangbanna
Cheng & Chen
in
Cheng
et al
., 2008
from
China
in the plumose arista; it can be differentiated from them by having the vertical process of gonopods distinctly asymmetric, nearly entirely sclerotized and pointed apically (
Figs 6, 7
), aedeagus comprised of 2 sclerites entirely separated from median rod (
Figs 6, 7
, aed sc), while in
P. xishuangbanna
aedeagus is comprised of 3–4 sclerites of different shape.
Description.
Frons brown, with thick and dense interfrontal setae. Pedicel and first flagellomere grayish yellow. Arista plumose, not swollen apically in male. Face brown, with yellowish white patches on lower corners. Clypeus medially white, laterally black. Thorax and scutellum orange brown. Legs yellow, with brown spot submedially on each femur and 2 brown rings on each tibia; fifth tarsomere of male foreleg without long seta apically. Abdominal third to fifth sternites longer than wide; sixth sternite with a few long setae laterally. Male terminalia: Surstylus distally with pubescence, several setae and ca. 20 prensisetae on ventral margin to inner surface (
Fig. 5
). Paramere finely serrated apically, with 3 sensilla submedially (
Figs 6, 7
). Aedeagus with developed outer membrane (
Figs 6, 7
).
FIGURES 4–7.
Phortica
(
Ashima
)
eseta
Chen
,
sp. nov.
, male terminalia: 4. Epandrium, cercus and surstylus (lateral view); 5. surstylus (inner view); 6, 7. hypandrium, parameres, gonopods, aedeagus and aedeagal apodeme (ventral and lateral views).
Measurements.
BL =
3.98 mm
in
holotype
(
3.44 mm
in 13
paratype
), ThL =
1.69 mm
(
1.52 mm
), WL =
2.72 mm
(
2.48 mm
), WW =
1.20 mm
(
1.20 mm
), arb = 5/4 (5-6/4), avd = 0.50 (0.50), adf = 1.20 (1.20), flw = 1.50 (1.50), FW/HW = 0.38 (0.40), ch/o = 0.07 (0.07), prorb = 1.10 (1.30), rcorb = 0.50 (0.60), vb = 0.50 (0.35), dcl = 0.50 (0.55), presctl = 0.57 (0.55), sctl = 0.98 (1.00), sterno = 1.00 (0.90), orbito = 1.80 (1.50), dcp = 0.30 (0.32), sctlp = 1.20 (1.10), C = 2.05 (1.94), 4c = 1.58 (1.80),
4v
= 2.42 (3.10),
5x
= 0.88 (1.14), ac = 4.75 (4.50), M = 0.58 (0.80), C3F = 0.68 (0.67).
Type
materials.
Holotype
3 (
SEHU
),
MALAYSIA
: Poring, Sabah,
30.xii.1998
, MJ Toda.
Paratypes
:
MALAYSIA
: 13 (
FRCK
), Kubah,
Sarawak
,
21.i.1999
, MJ Toda; 33 (
23 in
SEHU
;
13 in
SCAU
, No.
120959
), Ulu Senagang, Crocker Range, Sabah,
18.x.1999
, MJ Toda.
Distribution.
Malaysia
(
Sarawak
, Sabah).
Etymology.
A combination of the Latin words: ex + seta, referring to the fifth tarsomere of foreleg without long seta apically in male.