Lamprolonchaea ustulata McAlpine.

Macgowan, Iain, 2021, The Lonchaeidae of Vanuatu (Diptera: Schizophora), Zootaxa 4926 (3), pp. 342-362 : 345

Lamprolonchaea ustulata McAlpine. ( Figures 13-16 ).

Lamprolonchaea ustulata McAlpine, 1964a: 695 .

Diagnosis. Summary of original description with updated terminology (after McAlpine, 1964a).

♂ Tarsi dark-brown; metatarsi slightly paler brown. Calypteres dusky-brown with dark-brown margins and fringes. Wing pale-brownish hyaline. Scutellum wholly pollinose; one setula on each side between setae. Anepisternum usually with three anterodorsal setae. Epandrium longer than wide in lateral view; with three to five long; strong setae at posterior apex; these considerably longer than epandrium. Phallus G-shaped with a double hump in the back of the C; fully three times as long as basiphallus second hump and adjoining area pubescent; apex moderately flared, but dorsal third to half of flare appearing as if cut away; thus, apex resembles an inverted kettle-spout.

Type material. Holotype ♂: COMMONWEATH of the NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS: Aguigan Island , 27. viii. 1954, at light, C. J. Davis. HT ♂ no. 3613, BPBM. A further 38 specimens from the same locality.

Additional records. VANUATU: Espiritu Santo, Luganville , 20-30. viii.1958, B. Malkin, 3♂ ( BPBM) .

Figures

FIGURES 13-16. Lamprolonchaea ustulata McAlpine, 1964. 13. Epandrium and associated structures, lateral view. 14. Phallus, lateral view. 15. Surstylar plate, ventral view. 16 Surstylus, medial surface.