Docidiadia burmitica, BLAGODEROV & GRIMALDI, 2004

BLAGODEROV, VLADIMIR & GRIMALDI, DAVID, 2004, Fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera) in Cretaceous Ambers, Exclusive of Cecidomyiidae, Sciaridae, and Keroplatidae, American Museum Novitates 3433 (1), pp. 1-76 : 7-9

Docidiadia burmitica , new species

Figures 1–3 , Plate 1A

DIAGNOSIS: As for genus.

DESCRIPTION: Body length = 1.88 mm (holotype)/1.61 (paratype); wing length = 1.61/ 1.55 mm. Head. Eyes bare, facets round. Clypeus setose. Flagellum 14­segmented; first flagellomere cylindrical, width slightly less than length; apical flagellomere twice the width. Apical flagellomere of male secondarily segmented in two parts. Scape and pedicel turbinate. Only 3 segments of palpi seen, palpomeres cylindrical, subequal in length, basal wider than the rest. Thorax. Scutum setose, dome­shaped, with long protruding setae. Metepisternum bare, height equal to width, shallow incision anteriorly. Wing membrane without macrotrichia. Costa ends beyond tip of R 5, midway between tips of R 5 and M 1. Sc ends free, slightly beyond base of RS. R 1 setulose, R 5 with sparse setae, almost straight. R 1 short, about 0.6Χ wing length. M3 absent. M 1 and M 2 weakened, their bases absent. M 3+4 weakened. Abdomen. Female cerci wide, subtriangular with acute ventral angle. Male tergite IX narrow, triangular with two lateral appendages. Gon­ ocoxites short, with length about the width. Gonostyli massive, length 2.5Χ the length of gonocoxites, hairy, without apical teeth or spines.

MATERIAL: Holotype AMNH Bu­033, male; paratype B­002, female. Myanmar: Katchin , from amber mines near Myitkyina.

ETYMOLOGY: The species epithet is a reference to Burma, the former name of the country where the amber originates.

SCIAROIDEA INCERTAE SEDIS

Figures

Figs. 1–3. Docidiadia burmitica, n.sp. 1. Holotype AMNH Bu­033. 2. Tip of the antenna of the holotype. 3. Male genitalia of the holotype.