Notes on the Neurigona Rondani (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Chinese Mainland
Author
Wang, Mengqing
Author
Yang, Ding
Author
Grootaert, Patrick
text
Zootaxa
2007
1388
25
43
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175176
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Neurigona jiangsuensis
Wang, Yang and Grootaert
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 11–13
)
Diagnosis.
Three strong dc bristles, acr bristle absent. Coxa I with yellow bristles. Tarsomere
I1
and tarsomere
II1
much elongated. Abdominal segment 5 with brown ventral projection.
Description.
MALE. Body length
4.2 mm
, wing length 4.0 mm.
Head metallic green with pale gray pollen; face narrow, eyes contiguous on median portion of face. Hairs and bristles on head black; postocular bristles pale. Antenna brownish; first flagellomere about 1.5 times as long as wide, round apically (
Fig. 12
); arista [apical segment broken] brownish with short basal segment. Proboscis brown with pale hairs; palp yellow, with pale hairs and 2 yellow apical bristles.
Thorax brownish with yellow pollen; scutellum and metanotum yellow; pteropleuron with a small black spot just below wing base. Hairs and bristles on thorax black, 3 strong dc (on posterior portion of mesonotum), acr bristle absent. Propleuron with 1 yellow bristle on lower portion. Legs yellow; coxae I–III yellow; tarsomeres
I3–5
–
III3–5
brownish to brown. Hairs and bristles on legs black. Coxa I with yellow hairs and 4–6 brownish bristles on anteroapical portion; coxa II with black hairs and 23 black anterior and apical bristles; coxa III with 1 black outer bristle at middle. Tibia II with 3 ad bristles, 2 pd bristles and 2 av bristles, apically with 3 bristles; tibia III with 1 ad bristle at base and one row of about
13 v
bristles, apically with 3 bristles. Tarsomere
I1
and tarsomere
II1
much elongated, tarsomere
I1
longer than tibia I and tarsomere
II1
longer than tibia II; tarsomeres
I1–3
each with row of short erect hairlike v bristles; tarsomere
II1
with 3 ad (2 of which at base) bristles, and row of about 16 short v bristles; tarsomeres
III1–4
each with row of short v bristles. Relative lengths of tibia and 5 tarsomeres of legs LI 7.6: 8.5: 2.7: 1.6: 1.2: 1.1; LII 11.5: 13.5: 2.5: 2.0: 1.3: 1.0; LIII 16.0: 5.5: 4.8: 3.0: 2.1: 1.0.
Wing (
Fig. 11
) hyaline; veins black, M1+2 gently bent apically and convergent with R4+5; CuAx ratio 0.53. Squama yellow with pale hairs. Halter brownish.
Abdomen yellow with yellow pollen; terga 2–4 each with a large black basal spot, tergum 5 with a small blackish basal spot; hypopygium shiny black. Abdominal segment 5 with brown ventral projection. Hairs and bristles on abdomen chiefly black.
Genitali
a
(
Fig. 13
). Epandrium as long as wide, basally with 2 lateral processes (one slender, another long and thick); surstylus with wide dorsal lobe bearing long obtuse apex and acute process at dorsal corner, ventral lobe slender and curved, apically with thin fingerlike projection. Cercus round with short hairs. Aedeagus slender.
FEMALE. Unknown.
Type
material.
Holotype
male, Jiangsu: Songjiang, Sheshan,
6. V. 1964
, WJ.
Holotype
deposited in SEMCAS.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality in Jiangsu.
Etymology.
The specific epithet derives from the
type
locality in Jiangsu.
Comments.
The new species is similar to
Neurigona xizangensis
Yang
from Xizang, but can be separated from the latter by having 3 dc bristles and no acr bristle. In
N. xizangensis
, 6 dc bristles and 18–19 irregularly paired acr bristles are present (
Yang, 1999
).