Review of the Nearctic Claustropyga Hippa, Vilkamaa & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) with the description of three new species
Author
Vilkamaa, Pekka
Author
Hippa, Heikki
text
Zootaxa
2007
1552
53
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178159
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1175-5326
178159
Claustropyga spicea
sp. n.
Fig. 6
A–F
Material studied.
Holotype
male
.
CANADA
, Yukon Territory, Ogilvie Mts., North Fork Pass, 4100’,
21.VI.1962
, P. J. Skitsko (
CNC
).
FIGURE 6
.
Claustropyga spicea
sp. n.
(holotype). Maxillary palpus in dorsal view (A), antennal flagellomere 4 in ventral view (B), apical part of fore tibia in prolateral view (C), apical part of hind tibia in retrolateral view (D), and part of hypopygium (E) and gonostylus (F) in ventral view. Scale 0.10 mm.
Male. Head
brown, antenna and maxillary palpus slightly paler than the other parts. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Face (prefrons) with 10 setae. Clypeus with 1 seta. Antennal flagellomere 4,
Fig. 6
B. Maxillary palpus,
Fig. 6
A, with three palpomeres. Palpomere 1 with 1–2 setae. Palpomere 2 with 5 setae. Palpomere 3 with 5 setae.
Thorax
dark brown. Scutum and scutellum as in
C. brevichaeta
(
Hippa
et al
. 2003
,
Fig. 3
a) but the number of lateral setae on scutum ca. 20; the number of scutellar setae ca. 30. Anterior pronotum with 3 setae.
Episternum 1 with 8–10 setae. Other pleural sclerites non-setose.
Wing
similar to
C. mirifica
,
Fig. 4
C, but M fork longer, its base extending to the level of the tip of R1; pale yellowish-brown. Wing length
2.50 mm
, width/length 0.4. c/
w 0.8
. R1/R not calculated because the wing of the specimen studied is folded so that exact measurements cannot be taken. R-m and bM approximately equally long, both non-setose. Haltere brownish.
Legs
pale brown. Apex of fore tibia,
Fig. 6
C. The spurs of hind tibia,
Fig. 6
D, unusual in shape, with a broad basal part and narrow apical part. Length of fore basitarsomere/length of fore tibia 0.5. Length of hind tibia/ length of scutum and scutellum 1.95.
Abdomen
pale brown. Sternite 8 with 17 setae in two transverse rows on the apical half.
Hypopygium
,
Fig. 6
E, F. Intercoxal lobe (sternite 9) large and semicircular, without a medial gap in setosity. Gonostylus with 12–14 megasetae, the apicalmost at the apical tooth, which is as long as the longest megasetae. Tegmen with blunt lateral lobes. Hypoproct (sternite 10) difficult to observe on the slide, apparently with 1 seta on each side.
Female
unknown.
Discussion.
Claustropyga spicea
resembles the Palaearctic
C. janetscheki
in the high number of gonostylar megasetae, 12 or more, but otherwise the two species are not very similar.
C. spicea
is at once distinguished by having a large semicircular intercoxal lobe; in
C. janetscheki
the intercoxal lobe is totally absent.
C. spicea
is not very dissimilar from
C. aperta
(
Figs. 2
A, E) from which it is distinguished e.g. by a higher number of gonostylar megasetae (12–14, against 9) and by lacking a medial non-setose stripe on the intercoxal lobe.