Beckerina burmicola Beyer

Disney, R. Henry L., 2004, Genera resembling Beckerina Malloch (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 518 (1), pp. 1-28 : 12-13

Beckerina burmicola Beyer

( Figs 9–10 )

Beckerina burmicola Beyer, 1958: 35 .

This species is only known in the male sex. It is clearly congeneric with B. umbrimargo . The differentiated hairs at the front of the frons vary from 6–8 but are stronger and more bristle­like than in B. umbrimargo and the breadth of the frons is relatively greater than its length ( Fig. 9 ). Notopleuron as B. umbrimargo . Apart from its pale, straw yellow, colour the hypopygium is very similar ( Fig. 10 ). The hind tibia also lacks a dorsal hair palisade. Wing very similar to B. umbrimargo but with shorter costal cilia (which are only about 0.1 mm long). Membrane with somewhat reduced, but still dense, microsetae.

Material

Male, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh, Saichu Tua Nalla Sanctuary , 32 o 50’N, 77 o 00’E, 9000’ alt., 20–23 September 1986, A. Hutchings & R. S. George ( CUMZ — 3­146). Also known from Burma .

Figures

FIGURES 9–10. Beckerina burmicola male: (9) frons, with bristles represented by their sockets only; (10) left face of hypopygium. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.