Sciophila muglolutea Bechev & Koç, 2006, sp. n.
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Description
Sciophila muglolutea sp. n.
(Figs. 4, 10)
Holotype male: Turkey: Muġla, Fethiye, Seki Plateau (36º 49' N / 29º 33' E), 1122 m, 28.06.2003, Leg. H. Koç & O. Ozgül (in coll. UP).
Head. Brown. Antenna yellow, flagellomeres about 3x as long as broad. Palpus yellow.
Thorax yellow. All hairs and setae yellow. Laterotergite and mediotergite bearing setae.
Legs. Yellow, with dark patch below trochanters. Setae on coxae, tibiae, and tarsi brown, spurs yellow.
Wing. Length 3.6 mm. With both macrotrichia and microtrichia, long setulae above and below Sc, R1, and R5. Vein Sc2 level with base of Rs; R4 close to Rs, forming quadrate cell; rm shorter than stem of median fork. Halter yellow.
Abdomen. Yellow, with brownish hairs. Genitalia (Figs. 4, 10). Apical part of dorsal gonocoxal lobe rounded, without processes. Gonocoxal apodeme with bifurcate apical process, its branches pointed apically, long and curved, convergent and crossed apically. Elongate ventral lobe of gonostyle with 2 long tubelike megasetae, anterior portion of median lobe with 3 megasetae. Apical portion of gonostyle with numerous dark, rather longstalked, forked megasetae. Tergite 9 with 2 long setae, about 1.4 times as long as broad. Apical margin curved in proximal direction.
Female. Unknown.
Differential diagnosis. Convergently curved apodemal processes.
Etymology. The name is an adjective based on occurrence in the Muġla Region and relationship to S. lutea.
Habitat. Reed formations and rocky edges of a mountain stream. The vegetation consists of Salix sp., Nerium oleander, and Cupressus sempervirens in the rocky areas and Juncus sp., Avena sp., Trifolium sp., Tordylium sp., and Typha sp. in the reed formations.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Mycetophilidae
- Genus
- Sciophila
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- muglolutea
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sciophila muglolutea Bechev & Koç, 2006