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Frutillaria chiloensis Kits & Marshall, 2011, sp. n.

Description

Frutillaria chiloensis sp. n.

(Figs. 20–22, 110)

Description. Length: N/A (head + thorax 0.7–1.0 mm)

Occiput brown, face orange, frons and gena intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and first flagellomere orange, pedicel brown. Clypeus and prementum orange.

Thorax black, postalar callus reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, anterior, posterior, and dorsal. Katepisternum with shiny spot behind coxa not extending posteriorly toward bristle; posterior part of katepisternum, meron and metapleuron shiny with exception of a stripe of microtomentum between posterior thoracic spiracle and base of hind coxa. Laterotergite mostly shiny.

Legs black, joints narrowly orange, tarsi and trochanters orange; fore femur mostly microtomentose posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.

Male abdomen (Figs. 20–22): Inner arm of surstylus broadened at apex, outer corner not strongly projecting. Postgonite with lobes barely separated, both lobes thin, posterior lobe about 2x length of anterior. Epiphallus and preepiphallus both well-developed. Distiphallus with lateral arms thin apically, pointed at tip. central projecting sclerite with a ventral disc-like sclerite, and a medial bearing ridges near apex. Ventral sacs well-developed, sclerotized.

Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Los Lagos: Chiloé Is., Lago Tepuhueico, SE edge, 42°48'06"S 73°55'24"W, 50 m, Valdivian rainforest, FMHD #97-22, berlese, leaf & log litter, 15 Jan 1997, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (MNNC). Paratypes: Chiloé Is., Miraflores, road to, 0.6 km W Hwy 5, 42 °46'42"S 73°47'42"W, 130 m, secondary Valdivian rainforest, FMHD #97-25, berlese, leaf & log litter, 17 Jan 1997, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (2 3, FMNH); Chiloé Is., Miraflores, road to, 0.6 km W Ruta 5, 42 °46'44"S 73°47'42"W, 130 m, secondary Valdivian rainforest w/few conifers, FMHD #2002-077, berlese, leaf & log litter, 12 Dec 2002 A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (3 3, FMNH); Chiloé Is., Colonia Yungay, road to, ca. 4 km NW Ruta 5, 42 °59'07"S 73°42'01"W, 100–115 m, disturbed Valdivian rainforest w/recent selective cutting, FMHD #2002-078, berlese, leaf & log litter, 13 Dec 2002, A. Y. Solodovnikov & M.K. Thayer (1 3, FMNH).

Comments. The species name refers to this species’ apparent restriction to Chiloé Island.

Notes

Published as part of Kits, Joel H. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011, A revision of Frutillaria Richards and Penola Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Archiborborinae), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2863 on pages 12-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203208

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Sphaeroceridae
Genus
Frutillaria
Species
chiloensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Frutillaria chiloensis Kits & Marshall, 2011