New World species of Asymphyloptera Collin (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4048
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553
564
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.6
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Asymphyloptera chiricahua
sp. nov.
(
Figs 2
,
10–12
)
Asymphyloptera
sp. 2:
Sinclair, 1995
: 686
.
Type
material
.
HOLOTYPE
, ♂ labelled: “
USA
:A[ri]Z[ona]:Cochise Co./
Chiricahua
M[oun]t[ai]ns./
1– 2.VI.1991
6500' [
1980 m
]/ East
Turkey
C[ree]k./ B.J. Sinclair BS9102”; “
HOLOTYPE
/
Asymphyloptera
/
chiricahua
/ Sinclair [red label]” (
CNC
).
PARATYPES
:
USA
.
Arizona
: Same data as
holotype
(
5 ♂
, 6 ♀,
CNC
,
USNM
).
Additional material examined
.
USA
.
Arizona
: Cochise Co.,
12.5 km
S Sierra Vista Ramsey Cyn,
10– 17.xii.1986
, MT, oak/pine/juniper, B.V. Brown (1 ♀,
CNC
).
Recognition
. This species may be distinguished by dark pleura and legs; narrow, elongate surstylus with rounded apex; apex of phallus setose and arched anteriorly.
Description
.
Male
. Postpedicel globular with long, slender apical extension, arising subapically (
Fig. 10
). Ocellar setae stout, similar in length to postpedicel extension. Labrum slightly shorter than clypeus; palpus brown, subequal to labrum, tapered to slender apex.
Pleura dark brown with thin bluish pruinescence. Chaetotaxy very stout; 1 pprn short, very slender; 2 npl, lower slender and shorter; 4 dc, anterior dc offset; 2 apical sctl, 1.25X longer than prescutellar dc, lacking lateral sctl. Legs dark brown; fore and mid femora with antero- and posteroventral rows of pale, slender setae, subequal in length to width of femur; fore tibia with biserial row of erect setae. Wing length
1.8–2.1 mm
(
Fig. 2
); crossvein h distinct; base of wing with slender setulae along posterior margin. Halter light brown.
Male terminalia (
Fig. 11
): Cercus with short anterior lobe and long, slender posterior lobe. Hypandrium prolonged as broad, paired postgonites; apical margin of postgonite extended anteriorly, narrow, hook-like. Epandrium narrow, with short setae on apical half. Surstylus long, slender, slightly arched lobe; apex rounded, extended beyond phallus. Phallus slightly arched anteriorly; apex rounded with microsetae; ejaculatory apodeme narrow, not expanded.
Female
. Similar to male except as follows: lacking long ventral setae on fore and mid femora and fore tibia. Sternite 8 extended beneath cercus; posterior margin of sternite 8 invaginated, forming wide plate with lateral sclerite extending to posteroventral margin of tergite 8 (
Fig. 12
). Spermatheca elongate, slender.
Etymology
. Named after the
type
locality, the
Chiricahua
Mountains of southeastern Arizona.
Distribution
. Known only from the
type
locality in southeastern Arizona (
Figs 5
,
17
), a small stream shaded by oaks, juniper and pine. This was the first known Nearctic record of the genus (
Sinclair 1995
), collected during the 1991 field meeting of the North American Dipterists Society.