Anthomyza elbergi Andersson, 1976

Wang, Qian, Wang, Donghui & Shi, Li, 2021, A genus and three species of Anthomyzidae newly recorded from China (Diptera), Zoological Systematics 46 (2), pp. 163-175 : 168

Anthomyza elbergi Andersson, 1976 ( Figs 1−15 )

Anthomyza elbergi Andersson, 1976: 47, 1984b: 53 (catalog); Roháček, 1984: 393 (key), 1998a: 173 (world checklist); Sueyoshi &

Roháček, 2003: 25, 34 (key); Roháček, 2006: 185 (redescription); Kahanpää, 2014: 286; Roháček & Przhiboro, 2016: 208; Roháček,

2018: 75. Anthomyza sordidella: Czerny, 1928: 5 (partim); Trojan, 1962: 40 (partim); Elberg, 1968: 630, 631 (genit.); Stackelberg, 1970: 326 (key).

Description. Head, mesonotum and abdomen mostly dark brown ( Figs 1, 4 , 6, 10‒13 ). Frons ( Figs 2 , 7, 9 ) yellow in anterior half (also in front of frontal triangle). Antennal 1st flagellomere flatted laterally with short white pilosity on anteroventral margin, arista blackish brown including basal segment, shortly ciliate ( Figs 3 , 8 ). Legs yellow to darker yellow, particularly femora ochreous or only hind femora ochreous-brown tinge; tarsus 5 ( Figs 1 , 6 ) dark brown completely and tarsus 4 partly or paler brown. Male genitalia ( Fig. 5 ): Epandrium with 3 dorsomedial pairs of longer and thicker setae, almost in a horizontal line in posterior view ( Roháček, 2006: fig. 404); gonostylus long, slender and acute apically; caudal process of transandrium with long, rectangular, spinose and serrate appendage. Female tergosternum 7 with a large, pale pigmented, elongately trapezoidal area in ventral view ( Fig. 14 ); spermathecae ( Fig. 15 ) irregularly oval.

Material examined. 13♂ 7♀ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Guoluotuoniyaji River , wetland, 30.VII.2015, sample I–IV, Li Shi, Rongrong Shen, Ying Chen, Ayingge ; 1♂ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Guoluotuoniyaji River , shrubs, 30.VII.2015, sample II, Li Shi ; 1♀ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Guoluotuoniyaji River , shrubs, 22.VII.2017, sample III, Shunde Li ; 5♂ 3♀ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Jiuhu station , wetland, 7–24.VII.2015, sample III–IV, Ayingge, Rongrong Shen ; 2♂ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Jiuhu station , shrubs, 8–16.VII.2017, sample I–III, Shunde Li ; 1♂ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Wuzhiercha, wetland, 8.VII.2016, sample II, Li Shi ; 1♀ ( IMAU), China, Inner Mongolia, Hulunbeir, Genhe City, Hanma National Nature Reserve , Jinamijima River , shrubs, VII.2017, sample IV, Rongrong Shen .

Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia), Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, North Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Remarks. The species is reported in China for the first time.

Figures

Figures 1–5. Anthomyza elbergi Andersson, 1976, male. 1. Habitus, lateral view; 2–3. Head, anterior and lateral view; 4. Thorax, dorsal view; 5. Male genitalia, lateral view.

Figures 6–15. Anthomyza elbergi Andersson, 1976, female. 6. Habitus, lateral view. 7–9. Head, anterior, lateral and dorsal view; 10–11. Thorax, dorsal and lateral view; 12–13. Abdomen dorsal and lateral view; 14. Postabdomen, ventrally; 15. Spermathecae.