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
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journal article
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Lycoriella ampla
sp. n.
Figs 1A
,
3A
,
12A
Material studied
.
Holotype
male
.
CANADA
,
Ontario
,
7 mi
S of
Griffith
,
10.VII.1991
,
B.E. Cooper
(in
MZH
, http://id.luomus.fi/GE.1808)
.
Paratype
.
CANADA
,
Ontario
, Sudbury Co., Chapleau, Northeast Superior Forest,
47.573°N
,
82.859°W
, mature (99 years old) stand composed of 90%
Pinus banksiana
and 10%
Picea mariana
with understory shrub layer of
Vaccinium
, very wet with considerable bryophyte coverage,
Pinus banksiana
log, photoeclector,
22.
VII
.2013
,
R
. Deady,
1 male
(in
SDEI
)
.
Description
. Male.
Head
. Face and antenna concolorous pale brown, maxillary palpus pale brown. Eye bridge 2 facets wide. Face with 11 setae. Clypeus with 1 seta. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments, 1
st
segment longer than 3
rd
segment, 2
nd
segment shortest; 1
st
segment with 3 setae, with large dorsal pit with sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres smooth, body of 4
th
antennal flagellomere 2.8x as long as wide, neck slightly longer than wide, longest setae longer than width of flagellomere.
Thorax
. Brown; setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 2 setae. Proepisternum with 5 setae. Scutellum with 2 long, 2 moderately long and some short and fine setae.
Wing
. Hyaline. Length
2.1–2.2 mm
. Width/length 0.45. Anal lobe small. Veins distinct, except for stM. c/w 0.60. R1/R 0.60. stM longer than fork of M. bM shorter than r-m, stCuA shortest. bM and r-m non-setose. Halters of the studied specimen missing.
Legs
. Pale brown; setae pale. Fore tibial organ forming small patch of some setae in demarcated depression. Fore tibial spur shorter than apical width of tibia.
Abdomen
. Pale brown; setae pale, short and fine.
Hypopygium
(
Fig. 1A
). Brown, like abdomen. Intergonocoxal area moderately long, with 2 indistinct lobes each with 4 long setae. Gonocoxa broad, longer than gonostylus, with sparse and fine setosity. Gonostylus (
Fig. 3A
) wide, roundish laterally, convex medially, slightly narrowed apically; with short and dense setosity apically, with straight and conical apical tooth, with 1 megaseta on apical, 1 on dorsal, 1 on ventral side of apical tooth, with 3 subapical megasetae very near apical tooth; slightly differentiated whip-lash seta on apical quarter of gonostylus. Tegmen (
Fig. 12A
) slightly shorter than wide, roundish and membraneous apically, straight and strongly sclerotized laterally, with long apodemes, and a large area of aedeagal teeth. Aedeagal apodeme rather short.
BIN
. Unknown.
Discussion
.
Lycoriella ampla
sp. n.
has long antennae, a narrow eye bridge with one or two rows of facets, an extremely short maxillary palpus with a strongly deepened sensory pit (2
nd
and 3
rd
palpal segments are short and oval and together as long as 1
st
segment), basally narrowed wings, a very short wing vein R1, and a small demarcated fore tibial organ. The intergonocoxal area has apically two small groups of only four or five closely placed setae, the medial side of the gonostylus is straight, with a relatively short whip-lash seta on its apical half, and a slender apical megaseta. These characters are shared with
Lycoriella micria
Mohrig & Menzel, 1990
.
Lycoriella ampla
differs from
L. micria
in having longer antennal flagellomeres, a strongly widened gonocoxa and gonostylus, apically roundish tegmen with straight sclerotized lateral sides, a nearly straight apical tooth, and a higher number of apical-subapical gonostylar megasetae (see the description).
Lycoriella micria
has a narrower gonocoxa and gonostylus with more widely placed and stronger subapical megasetae, a wider and straighter apex of the tegmen, more indistinct groups of setae in the intergonocoxal area, and a more strongly curved apical tooth of the gonostylus with only one apical and three to four subapical megasetae. The extremely voluminous gonostylus of
L. ampla
, with its extremely widened lateral side, resembles that of
Bradysiopsis vittigera
(
Zetterstedt, 1851
)
and the unusually sclerotized lateral sides of its tegmen, unknown in any other known species of
Lycoriella
, resemble those of
Hemineurina riparia
(
Holmgren, 1883
)
[see Figs 159 and
374 in
Menzel & Mohrig (2000)].
Etymology
. The name is Latin,
ampla
, widened, referring to the widened gonostylus of the male hypopygium.