Pseudolycoriella flavipila sp. n.

(Fig. 3 A – D; Plate II, Fig. III)

Locus typicus: USA, Florida, Highlands County, Archibald Biological Station, 13 km SO of Lake Placid.

Holotype: Male, 22.–29.vii.1998, Malaise trap leg. D. Wahl & F. Gonsalves (PWMP).

Paratypes: 9 males, same data as holotype (PWMP, 1 male in PKHH) .

Description. Male. Head: Round; eye bridge 3 facets wide. Antenna brownish, scape and pedicel somewhat paler; 4 th flagellomere with a l/w index of 2.0, brownish, hairs not shorter than the diameter, with a few deepened sensorial pits. Palpi 3-segmented, first segment with 2 bristles and a flat patch of sensillae. Mouth parts very short. Thorax: Brownish, pleural sclerites with yellow spots; scutum rather long and with dark hairs, some lateral and prescutellar bristles longer. Scutellum with 4 stronger bristles, two are long. Posterior pronotum bare. Wing brownish; R 1 = 1/2 R; c = 2/3 w; y = x, bare; M-fork as long as M-stem, narrow; CuA-stem as long as x; posterior veins distinct and without macrotrichia. Haltere short, brownish. Legs yellowish brown; tibial organ with an undifferentiated patch of strong bristles, not bordered. Claws toothless. Abdomen: Ventral base of hypopygium without lobe and bare; inner margin of gonocoxites with short sparse hairs. Gonostylus apically rounded, with dense hairs apically, subapically with 2 short dark spines, not longer than apical hairs and with a long whiplash hair. Tegmen as wide as high, apically rounded. Aedeagus short and thin. Body length: 2.0 mm.

Comments. The species is characterized by having two short dark subapical spines as long as the apical hairs, a long whiplash hair, an undifferentiated tibial organ and claws without teeth.

Distribution. USA (Florida).