Takagioma anguis Qin and Huang sp. nov.

(Figures 17–20, 57–66)

Measurement. Male, 2.25–2.79mm (including wing).

Description. Body yellowish with whitish stripe broad on vertex; eyes ashy. Face brown with apical margin ochraceous. Forewing sandy beige, hind wing with CuA not branched (Figs 60, 61).

Abdominal apodeme weakly developed (Fig. 59). Pygofer hook slim and curved outward (Fig. 57). Subgenital plate subtriangular in ventral view with apex expanded and upward and with 4 macrosetae (Figs 62, 63). Paramere sinuate and snake-like, basal part long and expanded, caudal part tapered. (Figs 64, 66). Connective with central lobe underdeveloped and shorter than lateral feet. Aedeagal shaft short with pair of lateral slim horn-like processes apically; dorsoatrium with apex broad. (Figs 64, 65)

Examined type material. Holotype: Male, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 100.91°E, 22.01°N, 8 July 2017, coll. Weijian Huang.

Notes. This species is similar to Takagioma. gladius sp. nov in body coloration, but easily distinguished by the aedeagus, which has a pair of horn-like processes apically and by the short pygofer hook and sinuate paramere.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from Latin word “ anguis ”, which refers to the snake-like apex of the paramere.