Species of the genus Limnellia from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)
Author
Zhang, Junhua
Author
Yang, Ding
text
Zootaxa
2009
2308
58
64
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.191805
5c19016f-4fa0-496d-922b-265d4ae88cf8
1175-5326
191805
Limnellia luchunensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 4–6
)
Diagnosis.
Palpi light brown; legs black; wings with three large and one small white markings in R1 cell (
Fig. 4
); halters light brown.
Material studied.
Holotype
3,
China
, Yunnan, Luchun, Huanglianshan Nature Reserve
23°00'N
,
102°24'E
,
22.V.2006
, Junhua Zhang leg.
Description.
Male
. Body length:
1.60 mm
, wing length:
1.73 mm
.
Head subshiny black with brownish yellow microtomentum; frons with brownish yellow microtomentum; face and cheek black with grayish white microtomentum. 2 vertical setae; 1 strong lateroclinate orbital seta; 1 pair of strong ocellar setae. Face with strong setae. Gena with 1 strong seta. Antenna black. Palpi light brown. Gena-to-eye ratio 0.12.
Thorax subshiny black; mesonotum with guttate markings. 1 presutural seta; 2 strong dorsocentral setae (0+2); 2 notopleural setae; 1 strong supra-alar seta. Anepisternum with 1 strong seta at posterior margin; katepisternum with 1 strong seta. Scutellum black, with 1 pair of scutellar setae. Legs black. Wings with three distinct white markings in R1 cell (
Fig. 4
). Costal vein ratio 0.23. M vein ratio 0.80. Halters light brown.
Abdomen subshiny black with thin brownish yellow microtomentum.
Male genitalia (
Figs. 5–6
). Epandrium as long as wide, rounded dorsally and truncate ventrally in posterior view (
Fig. 5
); surstyli subquadrangular, as long as wide, not fused with ventral margin of epandrium in posterior view (
Fig. 5
); aedeagus with slender projection (
Fig. 6
); phallapodeme as a slender process attached to posterodorsal portion of aedeagus (
Fig. 6
).
Distribution.
China
(Yunnan).
Remarks.
Limnellia luchunensis
sp. nov.
is distinctly from other known species in the following combination characters: palpi light brown; legs black; wings with three large and one small white markings in R1 cell; halters light brown; epandrium as long as wide, rounded dorsally and truncate ventrally in posterior view; surstyli subquadrangular, as long as wide; aedeagus with slender projection; phallapodeme as a slender process attached to posterodorsal portion of aedeagus.
Etymology.
The specific epithet,
luchunensis
,
refers to the
type
locality Luchun.