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Homoneura (Homoneura) lii Gao & Yang 2005, sp. nov.

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Homoneura (Homoneura) lii sp. nov.

(Figs 7–12)

Body length 5.1–5.8 mm (male), 5.3–6.1 mm (female); wing length 5.7–6.4 mm (male), 5.5–6.1 mm (female).

Head yellow. Frons wider than long, parallel­sided, with 2 pale brown stripes; ocellar triangle brown; ocellar bristle developed, longer than anterior fronto­orbital bristle; face without spots; gena about 1/4 height of eye. Antenna yellow; 1 st flagellomere somewhat pale brown, about 1.5 times as long as wide; arista black except yellow­brown base, with longest hairs as long as 1/2 width of 1 st flagellomere. Proboscis yellow, with black and yellow hairs; palpus yellow, with black hairs.

Thorax yellow. 0+3 dc (anteriormost dc clearly behind transverse scutal suture), acr in 6 regular rows and equal in length, prsc about as long as anteriormost dc. Legs yellow. Fore femur with 5 posterior ventral bristles, 6 posterior dorsal bristles, and ctenidium with 12 short bristles. Mid femur with 6 anterior bristles; mid tibia with 1 preapical anterior dorsal bristle and 3 apicoventral spurs. Hind trochanter and femur without secondary characters. Wing (Fig. 7) pale yellow, dark on apex of subcostal cell, subapically on R 2+3, and preapically on R 4+5 and M 1, and along crossvein dm­cu; spots on R 2+3 and R 4+5 confluent; preapical spot on M 1 pale and small; costa with 2nd, 3rd and 4th sections in proportion of 11.5:2:1.4; r­m at middle of discal cell; ultimate and penultimate sections of M 1 in proportion of 6.1:3.8; ultimate section of CuA 1 about 1/6 of penultimate. Halter yellow.

Abdomen yellow, with central black stripes on tergites 3–8 and black edges on tergites 3–6 in male. Male sternite 5 with concave distal border. Genitalia (male) (Figs 8–12): Protandrium rather wide, semicircular, 7th spiracle without surrounding setulae; surstylus basally fused with epandrium, apically furcated, with two outer processes; hypandrium with apodemes small, gonopod divaricated; aedeagus long, without apical incision.

Type material. Holotype male deposited in CAU, Guizhou: Fanjingshan Mountain (27°55’N, 108°41’E) (2100–2200 m), 2002. V. 31, Ding Yang. Paratypes 2 males 3 females, same as holotype; 2 males 2 females, Guizhou: Fanjingshan Mountain (27°55’N, 108°41’E) (1800–2200 m), 2002. VI. 1, Ding Yang.

Remarks. The new species is similar to Homoneura (Homoneura) bistriata (Kertész, 1915) from Taiwan, but can be separated from the latter by the spots of the subcostal cell and r­m being separated, and the hypandrial apodemes are small. In bistriata, the spots of subcostal cell and r­m are confluent, and the hypandrial apodemes are distinct (Kertész 1915; Sasakawa & Ikeuchi 1982).

Etymology. The species is named after Professor Zizhong Li.

Distribution. China (Guizhou).

Notes

Published as part of Gao, Caixia & Yang, Ding, 2005, Notes on the genus Homoneura from Guizhou, China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), pp. 15-24 in Zootaxa 1010 (1) on pages 18-20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1010.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5048954

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAU
Event date
2002-05-31 , 2002-06-01
Verbatim event date
2002-05-31 , 2002-06-01
Scientific name authorship
Gao & Yang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Lauxaniidae
Genus
Homoneura
Species
lii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Homoneura (Homoneura) lii Gao & Yang, 2005

References

  • Kertesz, K. (1915) H. Sauters Formosa-Ausbeute. Lauxaniidae. II. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 13, 491 - 534.
  • Sasakawa, M. & Ikeuchi, S. (1982) A revision of the Japanese species of Homoneura (Homoneura) (Diptera, Lauxaniidae). Part 1. Kontyu, 50 (3), 477 - 499.