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Phortica (Ashima) foliacea

  • 1. Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 - 0810, Japan
  • 2. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand hans. banziger @ cmu. ac. th; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8913 - 3034
  • 3. Systematic & Cytogenetic Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Biotechnology, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, 246174, Uttarakhand, India. & satipradeep 28 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6809 - 8575
  • 4. Systematic & Cytogenetic Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Biotechnology, HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, 246174, Uttarakhand, India. & rs. fartyal @ hnbgu. ac. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8844 - 6263
  • 5. Zoology Division (Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense), Research Center for Biology-LIPI, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km. 46, Cibinong 16911, West Java, Indonesia. awitswt @ yahoo. com
  • 6. Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 - 0810, Japan t _ katoh @ sci. hokudai. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3376 - 8545

Description

24) Phortica (Ashima) foliacea (Tsacas & Okada, 1983)

Amiota (Phortica) foliacea Tsacas & Okada, 1983: 233.

Phortica foliacea: Chen et al., 2005b: 420.

Phortica (Ashima) foliacea: Chen & Máca, 2012: 507.

Diagnosis. Arch on anterior margin of aedeagal sheath narrow, less sclerotized; postgonites small; posterior one only on either side; anterior ones articulated to tips of arch, slightly curved inward, subequal in size (“Figs 13, 14” in Tsacas & Okada 1983).

Supplementary description (not repeating characters common to P. semiannulata). Supracervical setae 15– 16. Longest, dorsal branch of arista as long as longest seta on pedicel; apical, leaf-like expansion triangular, slightly narrower than long. Cibarial, posterior sensilla 7–8 per side. All tarsi with gray tarsomeres IV and V.

The antisymmetry is observed in the postgonites: in A-type, the posterior postgonite only on the right side; but in B-type, only on the left side.

Specimens examined. Taiwan: 1♂ (A-type) 2♂ (B-type), Shanlinxi, 16.x.1992, M.J. Toda leg. (SEHU); 2♂ (A-type) 1♂ (B-type), Chitou, 21–22.iv.1997, M.J. Toda leg. (SEHU).

Distribution. Taiwan.

Remarks. This species resembles P. semiannulata in having the anterior, more or less inward oriented postgonites articulated to tips of sclerotized arch on the anterior margin of aedeagal sheath, but can be distinguished from it by the diagnostic characters.

Notes

Published as part of Toda, Masanori J., Bänziger, Hans, Sati, Pradeep C., Fartyal, Rajendra S., Suwito, Awit & Katoh, Toru, 2020, Taxonomy and evolution of asymmetric male genitalia in the subgenus Ashima Chen (Diptera: Drosophilidae: Phortica Schiner), with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 4789 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4789.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3884610

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SEHU
Event date
1992-10-16 , 1997-04-21
Verbatim event date
1992-10-16 , 1997-04-21/22
Scientific name authorship
Tsacas & Okada
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Drosophilidae
Genus
Phortica
Species
foliacea
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phortica (Ashima) foliacea (Tsacas, 1983) sec. Toda, Bänziger, Sati, Fartyal, Suwito & Katoh, 2020

References

  • Tsacas, L. & Okada, T. (1983) On the Oriental and New Guinean species of the genus Amiota Loew originally described by Duda as Phortica foliiseta, with descriptions of three new species (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Kontyu, 51, 228 - 237.
  • Chen, H. W., Toda, M. J. & Gao, J. J. (2005 b) The Phortica (s. str.) foliiseta species-complex (Diptera, Drosophilidae) from China and its adjacent countries. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 30, 419 - 429.
  • Chen, H. W. & Maca, J. (2012) Ten new species of the genus Phortica from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Zootaxa, 3478 (1), 493 - 509. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3478.1.42