Homoneura (Homoneura) ornatifrons ( Kertész, 1913 ), Kertesz, 1913

Shi, Li & Yang, Ding, 2014, Supplements to species groups of the subgenus Homoneura in China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae: Homoneura), with descriptions of twenty new species, Zootaxa 3890 (1), pp. 1-117 : 34

Homoneura (Homoneura) ornatifrons ( Kertész, 1913)

( Figs 179–183 )

Lauxania ornatifrons Kertész, 1913: 91 . Type locality: China ( Taiwan). Syntype male in HNHM. Homoneura (Homoneura) ornatifrons: Malloch, 1929: 49 . Shewell in Delfinado & Hardy, 1977: 206. Sasakawa, 1998: 64; 2001: 93; 2002: 40.

Homoneura (Homoneura) trunciformis Shi & Yang, 2009a: 464 . syn. nov. Type locality: China (Hainan). Holotype male in CAUC.

Diagnosis. Frons with narrow yellow anterior margin, or a yellow T-shaped anteriorly marginal spot, or a yellow to orange quadrate spot on anterior 1/2 between brownish black base of or rows. Parafacial and gena yellow to brownish yellow, with silvery white pruinosity. Antenna yellow or yellowish brown except 1st flagellomere blackish brown on apical 1/3–1/2. Scutellum yellow on apical 1/3–1/2. Legs yellow except for mid and hind femora on basal 3/4–2/3 black. Fore femur with 2 strong pv (occasinally another weak one present), ctenidium with 6–10 short setae (male 6–8, female 8–10). Mid femur with 4 a (occasionally male with 3 a and female with 5 a); mid tibia with 2 strong apv. Male genitalia (see Sasakawa, 1998: fig. 9; Shi & Yang, 2009: figs 5–6): surstylus claviform with setulae, curved apically in posterior view; pregonite fused with hypandrium, shape of tip variable, truncate or slightly contorted or blunt triangular; postgonite broad triangular, acute apically, a very thin gap present between postgonite and aedeagal lateral sclerite in lateral view; aedeagus broad, with a pair of kidney-shaped lateral sclerites, membranous section wrapped by a pair of lateral sclerites, or split out of lateral sclerites with a pair of indistinct pale brown acute or blunt triangular lateral processes

Material examined. 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( USNM), CHINA, Formosa ( Taiwan): Maruyama, Taihoku-Distr., 500 feet, XI. 1912, H. Sauter (Det. J.R.Malloch); 1 ♀ ( USNM), CHINA, Formosa ( Taiwan): Maruyama, Chosokei, 1914, H. Sauter; 1 ♀ ( USNM), CHINA, Formosa ( Taiwan): Maruyama, 1914, H. Sauter; 1 ♂ ( USNM), CHINA, Kiangsi Chi (Jiangxi Province): Hong San, S.E., 28. VI. 1936, A.L.Melander collection 1961.

Distribution. China (Hainan, Jiangxi, Taiwan), Japan (Ryukyu), Vietnam.

Figures

FIGURES 179 – 183. Homoneura (Homoneura) ornatifrons (Kertész, 1913). Male. 179. body, lateral view; 180, 181. head, anterior and lateral view; 182. thorax, dorsal view; 183. abdomen, dorsal view.