Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus
Author
Gagné, Raymond J.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, c / o Smithsonian Institution MRC- 68, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA.
Author
Bertone, Matthew A.
0000-0001-7985-1913
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. matt _ bertone @ ncsu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7985 - 1913
matt_bertone@ncsu.edu
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-08-19
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5175.5.7
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Dentifibula spinosa
(Grover)
Muirodiplosis spinosa
Grover 1965: 112
,
holotype
in
P. Grover Collection
, Allahabad,
India
or Cecidological Society of
India
, Allahabad,
Uttar Pradesh
.
Dentifibula spinosa
:
Gagné 1973a: 500
(new combination).
The male
holotype
and a female
paratype
were caught at a light in Allahabad,
Uttar Pradesh
,
India
. The male hypoproct is convex apically, the apical setae not shown; the gonocoxite has a sensory peg at its narrowed apex; the gonostylus is generally evenly cylindrical except for a unique, angular projection that issues abruptly from its basal half; and a slightly sinuate aedeagus that is shorter than the gonocoxites. The female is evidently not a
Dentifibula
. Its cerci lack the field of ventral, crowded, short sensoria characteristic of this genus and
Lestodiplosis
. Additionally, flagellomere necks are no more than half as long as the nodes, in contrast to being nearly as long in known female
Dentifibula
spp.