Thailand Agromyzidae (Diptera) — 2
Author
Sasakawa, Mitsuhiro
text
Zootaxa
2013
3746
4
501
528
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3746.4.1
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1175-5326
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Melanagromyza yodai
Sasakawa
(
Figs 43–45
)
Melanagromyza yodai
Sasakawa, 1962: 135
.
Material examined.
1♂
, 2♀, Phetchabun, Khao Kho National Park, 16˚52.573´N, 101˚08.077´E,
520 m
a.s.l.,
26 x–2 xi 2006
, Malaise trap, Somchai Chatchumnan.
This small, black species was described by a single female, with a slight metallic sheen on the faintly graydusted mesoscutum, collected at Doi Suthep, in
December 1957
.
Description
. The male is described here for the first time, differing from the female in the following points: mesoscutum and abdomen brilliantly shining; frons slightly wider than eye; lunule semicircular; gena 1/8 as high as eye;
acr
arranged in eight rows; wing length
2.1 mm
; S6 almost five times as long as S5, about 4/5 as long as wide, with shallow emargination posteriorly. Genitalia: epandrium with surstylus roundly projected on its anteroventral part, incurved, bearing 26 spines in three irregular rows, and few pale spines and setae on posterior corner of projection; cercus 1/2 as high as epandrium, with row of five or six stout setae anteroventrally; hypandrium 340 µm long, with basal apodeme about 1/3 as long as sidearm; pregonite with five to seven sensillae; phallapodeme 530 µm long; phallus
400 m
long, basiphallus tubular, broadened distally; distiphallus with spinulose lobes near dorsolateral base; ejaculatory apodeme 190 µm long, blade almost symmetrically broadened distally, 110 µm wide.
Remarks
. The coloration and structures of the male genitalia of this species show similarity to those of the Australian
Melanagromyza trifilis
Spencer
, but this species has only two postsutural
dc.
The dense spines on the surstylus and spinules on the distiphallus in this species are distinctive (phallus of
trifilis
: Spencer 1977
b: figs 64, 65).
Distribution
.
Thailand
.