Tipula (Formotipula) melanomera gracilispina Savchenko, 1960

Zhang, Bing, Ren, Jinlong, Li, Yan & Yang, Ding, 2020, New and little-known species of Tipula Linnaeus (Diptera, Tipulidae) from Laos, with a new synonym, ZooKeys 982, pp. 11-31 : 11

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.982.49781

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scientific name

Tipula (Formotipula) melanomera gracilispina Savchenko, 1960
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1. Tipula (Formotipula) melanomera gracilispina Savchenko, 1960 Figs 1-4 View Figures 1–4 , 5-7 View Figures 5–7 , 8-10 View Figures 8–10

Tipula melanomera gracilispina Savchenko 1960: 888. Type locality: China: Yunnan.

Tipula (Formotipula) melanomera gracilispina : Li et al. 2013: 207.

Diagnosis.

Hypopygium is blackish with black setae. Posterior margin of ninth tergite has a low U-shaped notch. Posterior margin of eighth sternite has a pair of digitiform appendages. Clasper of gonostylus is complex, broad, and short; beak slender.

Redescription.

Male (n = 5): Body length 13-15 mm, wing length 14-16 mm, antenna length 3.5-4.0 mm.

Head (Figs 1 View Figures 1–4 , 3 View Figures 1–4 ). Mostly velvet black. Eyes dark black. Dorsal part of rostrum brownish black. Setae on head black. Antenna dark brown except scape and pedicel brownish with black setae; palpus brownish grey with black setae.

Thorax (Figs 1 View Figures 1–4 , 3 View Figures 1–4 , 4 View Figures 1–4 ). Mainly bright orange. Prescutum orange with yellowish-white pollen; pleuron mostly yellowish orange with yellow setae. Legs: coxae and trochanters grayish brown; femora brownish black; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Setae on legs black except coxae and trochanters with yellow setae. Wing brownish; pterostigma dark brown with some macrotrichiae; venation brownish black, Rs relatively long, cell m1 petiolate (Fig. 4 View Figures 1–4 ). Halter length approximately 2 mm, halter stem brownish with brown setae; halter brown with black setae.

Abdomen (Fig. 1 View Figures 1–4 ). Mainly dull orange. Abdominal segments 1-7 orange with brownish setae. Hypopygium blackish with black setae.

Hypopygium (Figs 5-7 View Figures 5–7 ). Posterior margin of ninth tergite with a shallow, U-shaped notch. Posterior margin of eighth sternite with a pair of digitiform appendages. Clasper of gonostylus complex (Fig. 7 View Figures 5–7 ), beak with triangular, membranous dorsal lobe, dorsal crest with a sickle-shaped dorsal process, basal beak and posterior crest with short setae; face of dististyle with a slender, acute, upwardly tilted spine.

Female (n = 3): Body length 13-15 mm, wing length 14-16 mm, antenna length 3-4 mm.

Female resembles male in head and thorax, except abdomen plump. Eighth tergite and eighth sternite black throughout with black setae. Ninth tergite, ninth sternite, and tenth tergite dark black, with black setae (Fig. 2 View Figures 1–4 ).

Ovipositor (Figs 8-10 View Figures 8–10 ). Ninth tergite with two lobes separated by V-shaped, median emargination; each lobe with long black setae at tip. Ninth sternite slender. Cerci short, fleshy, apically obtuse. Tenth sternite flat with setae. Hypovalves small, sclerotized, sharply pointed, with black setae.

Material examined.

3 males 1 female (CAU), Laos: Houaphanh, Sam Nuea, Hvay Ma, 2017.VI.8, Liang Wang. 2 males 2 females (CAU), Laos: Attapeu, Sok. Samakhi Vay N. B., 2017.VI.18, Liang Wang.

Distribution.

China (Guizhou, Yunnan), Laos (Houaphanh).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tipulidae

Genus

Tipula

Loc

Tipula (Formotipula) melanomera gracilispina Savchenko, 1960

Zhang, Bing, Ren, Jinlong, Li, Yan & Yang, Ding 2020
2020
Loc

Tipula melanomera gracilispina

Savchenko 1960
1960
Loc

Tipula (Formotipula) melanomera gracilispina

Savchenko 1960
1960