Three new species of Phyllomyza Fallén (Diptera: Milichiidae) from Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve of Chongqing, with an updated key from China
Author
Xi, Yuqiang
0000-0002-3285-8904
State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science / Henan International Laboratory for Green Pest Control, Department of Entomology, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China & yuqiangxi 2012 @ 126. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3285 - 8904
Author
Zhu, Yongqiang
0000-0002-0987-8552
State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science / Henan International Laboratory for Green Pest Control, Department of Entomology, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China & yq 16262405055 @ 163. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0987 - 8552
Author
Liu, Chang
0000-0001-6958-1112
State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science / Henan International Laboratory for Green Pest Control, Department of Entomology, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China & 1369383769 lc @ sina. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6958 - 1112
Author
Yang, Ding
0000-0002-7685-3478
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China & dyangcau @ 126. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7685 - 3478
Author
Yin, Xinming
0000-0003-3936-3557
State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science / Henan International Laboratory for Green Pest Control, Department of Entomology, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450046, China & xinmingyin @ 126. com, https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3936 - 3557
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-24
5257
1
115
122
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5257.1.8
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5257.1.8
1175-5326
7765927
24E125D2-A4A4-4105-A343-AFBF5E5CB5C0
Phyllomyza fuscusagenis
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1, 2
,
7, 8
)
Diagnosis.
Gena narrow, approximately one-tenth of eye height. Surstylus with upper blade of bifurcated tip extremely swollen, with apical margin blunt, the lower one thin and longer than upper one.
Description. Male.
Body length
1.4–1.6 mm
; wing length
1.4–1.6 mm
.
Head brown with greyish microtomentum; orbital plate darkish brown with microtomentum, ocellar triangle darkish brown without microtomentum; lunule strap-shaped, brown with black margin. Posterior eye margin ventrally diverging from head margin; eye 1.5 times as high as long, gena approximately one-tenth of eye height. Setae and setulae on head black; ocellar triangle with 2 ocellar setae and 3 short setae; frons with 3 orbital and 2 frontal setae on brown orbital stripe, orbital setae lateroclinate and frontal setae medioclinate, 4 interfrontal setae; postocellar setae cruciate. Lunule with 2 setae. Vibrissal angle relatively blunt; vibrissa strong, located below the level of lower eye margin. Antenna brown with microtomentum; pedicel with short black setulae at middle and margin, setulae at margin longer than others, the longest one about 2.5 times longer than others; first flagellomere with pubescence, irregularly quadrate; arista 3 times as long as first flagellomere, black, distinctly pubescent. Proboscis slightly short and fold, darkish brown, with sparse setulae. Palpus short, with blunt tip in lateral view, about
0.4 mm
, 3.5 times longer than wide; darkish brown with short dense black pubescence, margins with sparse setulae.
Thorax brownish with grey microtomentum except mesonotum shiny brownish with sparse black microtomentum; scutellum brownish with grey microtomentum. Setae and setulae on thorax black; 1 h, 2 dc, 1 prsc, 2 npl, 1 prs, 1 pos, 1 sa, 2 pa, 1 kepsts (a row of setulae at forward position); scutellum 1.5 times wider than long, with pair of asc and bsc, asc 3 times longer than bsc. Legs slender, coxae and femora darkish brown, tibiae yellow except hind tibiae brown with yellow apically, tarsi yellowish. Setae and setulae on legs black. Mid tibia with 1 black preapical dorsal seta. Wing hyaline, veins brown; M
1
between r-m and dm-cu a little longer than dm-cu. Calypter yellowish, with dense blackish microtrichae, margin with thin and long setulae. Knob of halter brownish, stalk brownish.
Abdomen brown with grey microtomentum. Setae and setulae on abdomen black; T2-T5 with setae, marginal setae longer than others; sternites with sparse setulae at posterior 3/4. Posteromedial triangular projection of T1 into T2 strong; S2 irregularly horseshoe-shaped and apex blunt and round, S3 generally trapezoid, apical margin slightly wider than basal margin, S4 horizontal rectangular, basal margin smooth, S5 horizontal trapezoid, apical margin flat. Male genitalia: epandrium with 7 strong black setae; surstylus with upper blade of bifurcated tip extremely swollen, with apical margin blunt, the lower one thin and longer than upper one; cercus arched with longer ventral appendix, with short sparse setae.
Female.
Unknown.
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
male,
CHINA
,
Chongqing
,
Yintiaoling Nature Reserve
,
Mt. Guanshan
,
Maizitang
,
2168 m
,
31°28′N
109°47′E
,
2022. VIII. 17
, Xulong Chen
.
PARATYPES
:
2 males
,
Yintiaoling Nature Reserve
,
Lanying Grand Canyon
,
875 m
,
31°26′N
109°50′E
,
2022. VIII. 13
, Xulong Chen
.
Distribution.
China
(
Chongqing
)
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the colour of gena.
Remarks.
This new species is distinctly different from other species of this genus in the hind tibia brown with yellow apex; the relatively longer palpus.