Bradysia paucidens, Vilkamaa, Pekka, Hippa, Heikki & Mohrig, Werner, 2012

Vilkamaa, Pekka, Hippa, Heikki & Mohrig, Werner, 2012, The genus Bradysia Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3489, pp. 25-44 : 37-38

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214293
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CF34892F-511C-46AB-926B-5B9DB64DE298
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6168512
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B687BE-FFDB-3367-FF3E-FD49FB5C9135
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Bradysia paucidens
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Bradysia paucidens View in CoL sp. n.

Figs 9 View FIGURE 9 A, B

Material studied. Holotype male. NEW CALEDONIA, Mont Panié, 140 m, Malaise trap, 7–18.xii.1990, Baylac & Bourgoin (in MNHN).

Description. Male. Head. Brown but colours faded in the specimen studied. Eye bridge 3–4 facets wide. Face with 21 scattered longer and shorter setae. Clypeus with 6 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 palpomeres; palpomere 1 longer than palpomere 3, palpomere 2 shortest; palpomere 1 with 4 setae, with a dorsal patch of sensilla in a shallow depression; surface of antennal flagellomeres rough, body of flagellomere 4 2.65x as long as wide, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Brownish, setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 2 setae. Episternum 1 with 8 setae. Scutum with long dorsocentrals, with some longer and shorter laterals, scutellum with?2 longer and some short setae. Wing. Wings missing in the specimen. Legs. Yellow. Coxal setae pale. Legs in poor condition or missing in the specimen. Abdomen. Setae not distinctly discernible in the specimen. Hypopygium ( Figs 9 View FIGURE 9 A, B). Brown. Gonocoxa large, longer than gonostylus, mesial margin with sparse setosity, basoventrally with denser and longer setosity. Gonostylus rather straight, slightly broadened at middle, with the mesial side weakly impressed at apical fourth; with many densely placed apical setae, without an apical tooth, with 4–5 subapical-apical strong megasetae. Tegmen apically roundish, weakly sclerotized, with area of a few aedeagal teeth.

Discussion. Bradysia paucidens belongs to the Bradysia hilaris group in the sense of Menzel and Mohrig (2000). See also under Bradysia seticornis .

Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin words paucus, few, and dens, tooth, referring to the low number of aedeagal teeth when compared with the otherwise highly similar Bradysia centidens .