New species and records of Lycoriella Frey (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the Holarctic region
Author
Menzel, Frank
0000-0001-9662-6291
Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalder Strasse 90, D- 15374 Müncheberg, Germany frank. menzel @ senckenberg. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9662 - 6291
frank.menzel@senckenberg.de
Author
Vilkamaa, Pekka
0000-0003-4366-0108
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, P. O. Box 17, FI- 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, pekka. vilkamaa @ helsinki. fi; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4366 - 0108
pekka.vilkamaa@helsinki.fi
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-12-03
5072
6
501
530
journal article
3133
10.11646/zootaxa.5072.6.1
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Lycoriella eurystylata
sp. n.
Figs 4B
,
6C
,
13A
Material studied
.
Holotype
male
.
CANADA
,
Quebec
,
Old Chelsey
,
3.VIII.1958
, J.
R
. Vockeroth (in
CNC
).
FIGURE 4.
Hypopygium, ventral.
A.
Lycoriella acutostylia
Mohrig & Menzel, 1990
(from Finland, Ilmajoki).
B.
L. eurystylata
sp. n.
(holotype). Scale 0.1 mm.
Description
. Male.
Head
. Face and antenna concolorous brown, maxillary palpus pale brown. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Face with 14 setae. Clypeus with 4 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments, 1
st
segment as long as 3
rd
segment, 2
nd
segment shortest; 1
st
segment with 5 setae, with small dorsal pit with sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres smooth, body of 4
th
antennal flagellomere 2.2x as long as wide, neck slightly shorter than wide, longest setae longer than width of flagellomere.
Thorax.
Brown; setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 5 setae. Proepisternum with 8 setae. Scutellum with 2 long and some short and fine setae.
Wing
. Fumose. Length
1.7 mm
. Width/length 0.45. Anal lobe small. Veins distinct, except for stM. c/w 0.75. R1/R not detectable in the specimen studied. stM shorter than fork of M. bM and r-m subequal in length, stCuA shortest. bM and r-m non-setose. Halter yellow.
Legs
. Brown; setae pale. Fore tibial organ forming large patch of many setae in demarcated depression. Fore tibial spur slightly shorter than apical width of tibia.
Abdomen
. Pale brown; setae pale and moderately long.
Hypopygium
(
Fig. 4B
). Brown, like abdomen. Intergonocoxal area rather long, with short setose lobe. Gonocoxa longer than gonostylus, slightly roundish laterally, with rather dense and fine setosity. Gonostylus (
Fig. 6C
) widest subbasally, narrowed towards apex, strongly impressed medially, densely setose apically, with strong and curved apical tooth; with 5 medial megasetae in apical half, megasetae slender, long and straight, oblique, the apicalmost (with sockets) shorter than the others, as long as apical tooth; with well-differentiated long whip-lash seta in basal third of gonostylus. Tegmen (
Fig. 13A
) much wider than long, smoothly curved and membraneous apically, straight laterally, sclerotized basolaterally, with small area bearing a few aedeagal teeth. Aedeagal apodeme moderately long.
BIN
. Unknown.
Discussion
.
Lycoriella eurystylata
sp. n.
resembles
L. taimyrensis
sp. n.
and
L. tundrae
sp. n.
in having the tegmen smoothly curved apicolaterally, whereas
L. acutostylia
Mohrig & Menzel, 1990
[described in
Menzel
et al.
(1990)
],
L. jakovlevi
sp. n.
and
L. kinbasketi
sp. n.
have the tegmen distinctly angled apicolaterally (
Fig. 13
).
L. eurystylata
differs from
L. taimyrensis
and
L. tundrae
in having the tegmen very short, strongly sclerotized basolaterally, semicircular apically and without tooth-like structures, whereas the other two have their tegmen only slightly sclerotized laterally, less curved apically and with tooth-like structures. Furthermore,
L. eurystylata
has five,
L. tundrae
four and
L. taimyrensis
eight to nine gonostylar megasetae and the fore tibial organ of
L. eurystylata
is more distinctly demarcated than that of
L. taimyrensis
and
L. tundrae
.
L. eurystylata
is similar to
L. acutostylia
,
L. jakovlevi
and
L. kinbasketi
in having rather long antennal flagellomeres (4
th
flagellomere 2.1–2.3 times as long as wide), whereas
L. taimyrensis
and
L. tundrae
have shorter flagellomeres (4
th
flagellomere 1.4–1.6 times as long as wide). To distinguish
L. taimyrensis
and
L. tundrae
, see under the former, and to distinguish
L. acutostylia
,
L. jakovlevi
and
L. kinbasketi
, see under
L. jakovlevi
sp. n.
Etymology
. The name is derived from the Greek words
eurys
, broad, and
stylos,
style, referring to the thick gonostylus of the male hypopygium.