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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Materials</paragraph>
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, with genitalia in glycerine in separate microvial;
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<collectingMunicipality>Location</collectingMunicipality>
:
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country:
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; stateProvince:
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; municipality:
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; locality:
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samplingProtocol:
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; eventDate:
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; habitat: mistbelt forest;
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institutionCode: TMU
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, with genitalia in glycerine in separate microvial;
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<collectingMunicipality>Location</collectingMunicipality>
:
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country:
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; stateProvince:
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; municipality:
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; locality:
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:BFAFEB6DB3FE581DB2EA70BDA14663C9:17AFAB7BAFF54FA3D81327A2D0D0A9A9" country="South Africa" county="Pinned" latitude="-29.3169" longitude="30.2514" municipality="Location" name="Event" stateProvince="KwaZulu-Natal">Event</location>
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samplingProtocol:
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; habitat: mistbelt forest;
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institutionCode: TMU
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Description</paragraph>
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Male: Body length 3.5 mm. Wing length 2.7 mm.
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(Dry specimen). Head and face dark brown; clypeus, labellum and palpus brown. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellow; flagellum brown. Thorax with scutum brown; lateral sclerites pale brown; propleura yellow; halteres whitish-yellow. Legs whitish-yellow. Abdomen dark brown, tergites II-IV with a lateroventral yellow area. Terminalia pale brown.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Head</emphasis>
. Frons and vertex covered with short, brown setae. Clypeus covered with dense thin pale setae. Antennae elongate, 2.3 times as long as length from vertex to ventral margin of clypeus; flagellomeres slightly longer than broad, with sixth flagellomere 1.1 times as long as wide.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Thorax</emphasis>
. Scutum covered with short, brown setae.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Legs</emphasis>
. Fore leg with tibia and first tarsomere equally long. Mid-tibia with 20 anterior, 4 posterodorsal, 7 posterior and 3 posteroventral bristles. Hind tibia with 8 anterodorsal, 6 posterodorsal and 4 posterior bristles.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Wings</emphasis>
. Vein r-m 2.1 times longer than stem of M-fork.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Abdomen.</emphasis>
Tergites covered with pale brown setae.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Terminalia</emphasis>
(Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407502" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">b</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407503" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">c</figureCitation>
). Each part of divided tergite IX apically with about 3 setae, most apical seta stout. Gonocoxites with setae on apicoventral margin elongate, reaching as far as, or beyond GL apex (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407502" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">b</figureCitation>
). GL apex with 2 setae (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
). Aedaegal guides round (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
). Hypandrium covered with about 9 setae, with apical pair elongate, reaching beyond GL apex (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
). Hypandrial lobe with each branch wide medially, with narrow rounded apex (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
). Gonostylus (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407503" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">c</figureCitation>
) with DB about 2.8 times longer than broad; apico-internal corner forming tapering acute apex extended apico-interiorly; apico-exterior corner right-angled, rounded; apical margin emarginate; dorsal side evenly covered with setae, except on most apical parts; VB oblong, with 2 small setae. IB apically rounded, apical part with 3 setae close to the apex. MB evenly tapered towards acute apex; bare.
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Female: Body length 3 mm. Wing length 2.5 mm.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Colouration</emphasis>
(Dry specimen). Head with vertex dark brown; face and clypeus brown; labellum and palpus yellow. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellow; flagellum brown, basal part of first segment yellow. Thorax with scutum brown; lateral sclerites brown to pale brown; propleura yellow; halteres whitish-yellow. Legs whitish-yellow. Abdomen dark brown, tergites II-VI with lateral yellow areas. Terminalia brown.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Head</emphasis>
. Frons and vertex and clypeus covered with brown setae. Antenna 1.7 times as long as length from vertex to ventral margin of clypeus; flagellomeres quadrate, with sixth flagellomere as long as broad.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Thorax</emphasis>
. Scutum covered with short dark brown setae.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Legs</emphasis>
. Mid-tibia with 22 anterior, 5 posterodorsal, 5 posterior and 2 posteroventral bristles. Hind tibia with 8 anterodorsal, 5 posterodorsal and 4 posterior bristles.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Wings</emphasis>
. Vein r-m 2.5 times longer than stem of M-fork.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Abdomen.</emphasis>
Tergites covered with brown setae.
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Terminalia</emphasis>
(Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407504" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">d</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407505" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">e</figureCitation>
). Cerci with apical segment length about 0.5 of basal segment length. Tergite VIII with apicolateral margin slightly angular. Sternite VII with apicoventral margin evenly rounded. Sternite VIII (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407504" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">d</figureCitation>
) with hypogynal valves separated by a cleft with depth about one-fifth of Sternite VIII length; apical setae about 0.7 of sternite VIII length. Gonapophysis IX (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407496" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">29</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407505" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">e</figureCitation>
) basolaterally expanding in abrupt almost right angle; spermathecal eminence distinctly trilobed with lateral branches curved distally.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Diagnosis</paragraph>
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Distinguished from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">E. sambai</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Araceae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="E. ashleyi" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ashleyi">
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in having the dorsal gonostylus branch 2.8 times longer than broad, with apico-internal corner acuminate and apico-external corner right-angled (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407503" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">c</figureCitation>
); from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">E. burundiensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having the dorsal gonostylus branch apically emarginate (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407503" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">c</figureCitation>
) and the gonocoxal lobes with apical setae not splaying (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
); from
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">E. afroparva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in having the gonocoxal lobes with parallel ventral margins (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407501" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">a</figureCitation>
); from other species in the
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">E. parva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
group in having the internal branch with 3 setae close to the apex (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStartId="F6407503" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">c</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Etymology</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">
From Latin
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">penicillus</emphasis>
, paint brush, relating to the shape and placement of setae on the internal lobe of the gonostylus, resembling a brush.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="67134" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Distribution</paragraph>
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Afrotropical, South Africa (Fig.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="67134">Collected in mist-belt forest (1325 m a.s.l.).</paragraph>
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