Six new species of the genus Pseudostegana (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from the Oriental region
Author
Li, Tong
Author
Gao, Jianjun
Author
Chen, Hongwei
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-05-24
44
23 - 24
1401
1418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222931003679584
journal article
10.1080/00222931003679584
1464-5262
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Pseudostegana bipartita
sp. nov.
(
Figures 1E,F
;
2C
;
5A–E
)
Diagnosis
Paramere distally deeply bifurcated, with one small projection in ventral view (
Figure 5C,D
); aedeagus apically roundly expanded (
Figure 5C,D
).
Description
Only important characters are described here.
Head.
Ocellar triangle black on upper two-thirds, brown on lower one-third. Frons brownish yellow. Pedicel yellow; first flagellomere greyish black. Face mostly brown. Clypeus dark brown. Gena brown. Palpus brownish black, broad and large in male.
Thorax.
Scutum yellow to yellowish brown. Pleura dark brown to black, broadened in male, medially half as wide as long. Katepisternal setae two. Scutellum brownish yellow.
Legs.
Yellow.
Abdomen
. Tergites glossy black, except for first and second orange yellow medially. Sternites, first and second yellow, but others dark brown.
Figure 5.
Pseudostegana bipartita
sp. nov.
, male. (A) epandrium, cercus and surstylus; (B) cercus; (C,D) hypandrium, paramere, gonopods, aedeagus and aedeagal apodeme. For orientations and organizations see Figure 3. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
Male terminalia.
Epandrium slightly roundly protruded on ventral margin, with about 11 setae (
Figure 5A
). Surstylus protruded on antero- and posteroventral corners, with two setae subbasally (
Figure 5A
). Cercus ventrally round (
Figure 5A,B
). Basal process of aedeagus slender, apically slightly bifurcated (
Figure 5C,D
).
Measurements
BL = damaged, ThL = damaged, WL =
2.10 mm
, WW =
0.97 mm
, arb = 6/1, avd = 0.78, adf = 2.25, flw = 3.00, FW/HW = 0.41, ch/o = 0.08, prorb = 1.00, vb = 0.50, dcl = damaged, sctl = damaged, sterno = damaged, orbito = 0.50, dcp = damaged, sctlp = damaged, C = 1.29, 4c = 2.18, 4v = 3.40, 5x = 0.87, ac = 14.8, M = 0.64, C3F = 0.70.
Type material
Holotype
male (
MZB
),
Indonesia
:
Padang-Kotagoding
,
West Sumatra
,
0°59′ N
,
100°22′ E
, altitude
200 m
,
4 January 2004
,
M.J. Toda.
Etymology
A combination of the Latin words:
bi
plus
partitus
, referring to the paramere deeply bifurcated apically.
Distribution
Indonesia
(
West Sumatra
).