Pseudolycoriella capillosa sp. n.

Figs 3 A–E

Material studied. Holotype male. NEW CALEDONIA, Pindaï, sclerophyllous forest, fogging, 30.vi.1992, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Guilbert (in MNHN). Paratypes. 1 male, same data as holotype (in MNHN), 2 males, Rivière Bleue N.P., (parc 6), dense forest, fogging, 20.i.1993, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Guilbert (in MNHN), 5 males, Rivière Bleue N.P., (parc 6), rainforest, 20.i.1993, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Guilbert (in MNHN), 3 males, same data as previous but 16.vii.1992 (2 in MNHN, 1 in PWMP), 1 male, Rivière Bleue N.P., alluvial forest, Malaise trap, 12–25. xi.1986, Bonnet de Larbogne, Chazeau & Tillier (in MNHN), 4 males, Pointe de Cagou, 166°20’E, 21°20’S, 30 m, humid forest, 5–8.ix.1984, Tillier & Bouchet (1 in MZH, 2 in MNHN and 1 in SMNH).

Description. Male. Head. Brown, antenna unicolorous, paler brown, maxillary palpus very pale brown. Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Face with 9–22 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 4–6 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 palpomeres; palpomere 1 as long as palpomere 3, palpomere 2 shortest; palpomere 1 with 2–5 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres rough, flagellomere 4 (Fig. 3 A) 1.8–3.5x as long as wide, the neck longer than broad, the longest setae longer than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Brown, setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 2–6 setae. Episternum 1 with 1–6 setae. Scutum with short dorsocentrals, with 2–3 stronger laterals, scutellum with longer and shorter fine setae. Wing. Hyalinous. Length 1.3–1.8 mm. Width/length 0.40–0.45. Veins distinct. R1/R 0.50–0.55. c/ w 0.65 –0.80. r-m and bM subequal in length, both r-m and bM nonsetose. Halter pale brown. Legs. Pale yellowish brown. Coxal setae pale. Apical part of front tibia, Fig. 3 B: tibial organ with fine vestiture in curved row. Front tibial spur slightly shorter than the tibial width. Claws without teeth. Abdomen. Pale brown, setae pale and fine. Hypopygium, Figs 3 C–E. Brown, concolorous with abdomen. Gonocoxa longer than gonostylus, mesial margin with a dense basal setosity. Gonostylus strongly curved, with the mesial side impressed; with a dense apical vestiture, without megasetae, with a long subapical whiplash seta. Tegmen apically roundish, laterally weakly sclerotized, with a broad apical process, not visible in all specimens.

Discussion. Pseudolycoriella capillosa is similar to P. pallidula and P. spicata in having a densely setose area at the basal part of the gonocoxa (Figs 3, 5 and 8), but is distinguished from these and all other Australasian species of Pseudolycoriella in lacking gonostylar megasetae. Pseudolycoriella pallidula and P. s p i c a t a both have a group of mesial megasetae on the gonostylus, but differ in P. pallidula having a distinct setose intercoxal lobe of the hypopygium. Both a densely setose area at the base of gonocoxa and an intercoxal lobe of the hypopygium are absent in other species of Australasian Pseudolycoriella, but present in some Neotropical (Mohrig 2003, Mohrig et al. 2004) and Afrotropical species (Rudzinski 2003).

Etymology. The name is Latin, capillosa, hairy, referring to the setose area on the basal part of the gonocoxa.