The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part IV: the ornata species group from the East Asia, with morphological and molecular evidence (II)
Author
Huang, Jia
Author
Li, Tong
Author
Chen, Hongwei
text
Zootaxa
2014
3893
1
1
55
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.1
c3104971-b07a-424c-81e9-ef313376b7d2
1175-5326
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Leucophenga baculifoliacea
sp. nov.
(
Figs 3
D, 8A, 8B, 11D, 15E, 15F, 30)
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
L
.
glabella
Huang & Chen, 2013b
from Yunnan,
China
in katepisternum yellow to brownish yellow (
Fig. 8
B), but can be distinguished from the latter by having the aedeagus slender and straight, with 1 small projection apically (
Fig. 30
D). In
glabella
: aedeagus sturdy and reticulated, distally round and curved ventrad, lacking projection (fig. 25C in
Huang
et al
. 2013b
).
FIGURE 30.
Leucophenga baculifoliacea
sp. nov.
, male terminalia in lateral view. A. epandrium, surstylus and cercus; B. hypandrium, paramere, gonopods, aedeagus and aedeagal apodeme; C. paramere; D. aedeagus. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.
Description.
Ocellar triangle yellowish brown, with 2 setae above ocellar setae. Frons brownish yellow. Pedicel brownish yellow; first flagellomere yellow. Clypeus brownish yellow medially, brown laterally. Palpus yellow, brownish apically. Mesonotum yellowish brown (
Fig. 8
A). Postpronotal lobe brownish yellow (
Fig. 8
B). Scutellum yellowish brown (
Fig. 8
A). Pleura with a dark brown, longitudinal stripe above (
Fig. 8
B). Katepisternum and mesopleuron mostly brownish yellow (
Fig. 8
B). Wing (
Fig. 3
D): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with 6–7 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Abdominal tergites dark brown, with yellow patches (
Fig. 11
D). Male terminalia: Epandrium nearly entirely pubescent, with 13 setae near posterior margin and ventral corner per side (
Fig. 30
A). Paramere with pubescence and 6 sensilla distally (
Fig. 30
C).
Measurements.
BL = 3.00 mm in
holotype
, THL =
1.53 mm
, WL =
2.97 mm
, WW =
1.28 mm
, arb = 8/4, avd = 0.94, adf = 2.13, flw = 1.87, FW/HW = 0.38, ch/o = 0.04, prorb = 0.54, rcorb = 0.63, vb = 0.39, dcl = 0.35, presctl = 0.44, sctl = 1.39, sterno = 0.78, orbito = 1.91, dcp = 0.22, sctlp = 1.21, C = 1.96, 4c = 1.28,
4v
= 1.83,
5x
= 0.78, ac = 2.22, M = 0.45, C3F = 0.96.
Type
specimens.
Holotype
♂ (
SCAU
, No.
123138
),
CHINA
: Muyiji Park, Ximeng, Yunnan,
22°37'N
,
99°36'E
,
1100m
,
4.iv.2011
, ex tussock, YR Su.
Distribution.
China
(Yunnan).
Etymology.
A combination of the Latin words “
baculum
” (= rod-like) + “
foliaceus
” (= folium), referring to the aedeagus slender.