Sciophila turkolutea, Bechev, Dimitar & Koç, Hasan, 2006

Bechev, Dimitar & Koç, Hasan, 2006, Two new species of Sciophila Meigen (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Turkey, with a key to the Western Palaearctic species of the S. lutea Macquart group, Zootaxa 1253, pp. 61-68 : 66-67

Sciophila turkolutea sp. n.

( Figs. 8 , 11 )

Holotype male: Turkey: Denizli, Acipayam, Kizilca Borough Road 10 km (37º 28' N / 29º 13' E), 1287 m, 22.04.2003, Leg. H. Koç, A. Karaman & O. Ozgül (in coll. UP).

Head. Brownish. Antenna yellow, flagellomeres about 2.5x as long as broad. Palpus yellow.

Thorax. Yellow­brownish. All hairs and setae yellow. Laterotergite and mediotergite bearing setae.

Legs. Yellow, with dark patch below trochanters. Setae on coxae, tibiae, and tarsi brown, spurs yellow.

Wing. Length 3.9 mm. With both macrotrichia and microtrichia, long setulae above and below Sc, R1, and R5. Vein Sc2 about level with base of Rs; R4 close to Rs, forming quadrate cell; r­m shorter than stem of median fork. Halter yellow.

Abdomen. Yellow, with yellowish hairs. Genitalia ( Figs. 8 , 11 ). Apical part of dorsal gonocoxal lobe rounded, without processes. Gonocoxal apodeme with bifurcate apical process. Outer process apically also bifurcate. Elongate ventral lobe of gonostyle with 2 long tube­like megasetae, anterior portion of median lobe with 3 megasetae. Apical portion of gonostyle with numerous dark, rather long­stalked, forked megasetae. Tergite 9 with 2 long setae, about 1.3 times as long as broad. Apical margin nearly straight.

Female. Unknown.

Differential diagnosis. Sciophila delphis has apodemal processes different in form, but in S. turkolutea the outer process is long and bifurcate apically, whereas in S. delphis it is broad.

Etymology. The name is an adjective based on occurrence in Turkey and relationship to S. lutea .

Habitat. A mixed forest along a mountain stream. The vegetation consists of trees ( Salix sp., Pinus sp., Quercus sp.) and herbaceous plants ( Trifolium sp., Vicia sp., E quisetum sp., Juncus sp., Urtica sp.).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Dorsal lobe of gonocoxite and gonocoxal apodeme: dorsal view, half, tergite 9 not included. 1. Sciophila lutea. 2. S. corlutea. 3. S. iberolutea. 4. S. muglolutea sp. n. 5. S. eryngii. 6. S. pandora. 7. S. delphis. 8. S. turkolutea sp. n. Figs 2, 3, 5, and 7 are after Chandler and Blasco­ Zumeta (2001); Fig. 1 after Zaitzev (1982).

FIGURES 10 – 11. Male genitalia, dorsal view. 10. Sciophila muglolutea sp. n. 11. S. turkolutea sp. n.