Two new species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands
Author
Zaitzev, Alexander
text
Zootaxa
2017
4250
3
296
300
journal article
33298
10.11646/zootaxa.4250.3.6
67b7d296-0468-4081-93c8-893e4e13e076
1175-5326
495072
A1052EB1-7A1F-49E0-BADF-2E571D372477
Phthinia kurilensis
sp.n.
Figures 5–6
Type
material.
Holotype
male.
RUSSIA
,
E Kunashir I.
,
Filatovka River
,
30–31.VII.2014
,
Y. Sundukov
leg. (
ZMUM
).
Description. Male.
Body length
6.6 mm
. General colouration dark brownish-gray.
Head.
Dark brown. Palpi brown. Antennae brown, scape yellowish. First flagellomere approximately 1.2 times as long as second flagellomere. Sixth flagellomere 6 times as long as wide.
Thorax.
Mesonotum brown. Scutellum with two long bristles. Mediotergite haired. Laterotergite bare.
Wings.
Hyaline, light grayish. Wing length
3.8 mm
. Membrane with macrotrichia and microtrichia present. Costa extending about ¼ of the distance between R5 and M1. Sc ending opposite of Rs. Crossvein rm about 1.7 times as long as stem of median fork. Basal part of M1 faint. A1 running quite divergent from stem of CuA.
Legs.
Yellowish-brown. Hind femora with dark apex. Fore basitarsus about 2.1 times as long as fore tibia. Middle tibia with 9 minute anterior setae, 5 short dorsal setae, hind tibia with 13 minute anterior setae and 38 short dorsal setae.
Abdomen.
Entirely brown, long and slender.
Terminalia.
Light brownish. Gonocoxites with group of very long bristles on ventral side. Posteroventral lobe of gonocoxite with two stout spines (fig. 5). Gonostylus with two lobes (fig. 6). Dorsal lobe rounded apically, bears long broad bristle. Ventral lobe apically acute with spine-like bristle.
Female.
Unknown.
Biology.
Unknown.
Etymology.
The name refers to the occurrence of the species in the Kuril Islands (Kunashir I.).
Comments.
The new species is most closely related to
P. spinosa
Sasakawa, 1961
,
P. ostroverchovae
Zaitzev, 1984
and
P. dallai
Zaitzev, 2001
but differs distinctly in the bilobate gonostylus (fig. 6) and by the presence of two very stout spines on the appendage of gonocoxite (fig. 5).