PHORTICA LONGISETA CAO & CHEN SP. NOV.

(FIGS 12, 24, 25)

Material examined: Holotype male, CHINA: Shennongjia, Hubei, 5.viii.2001, H. W. Chen (SCAU, No. 120002).

Description: Male. Head: frons almost black. Thorax: Scutellum black, with dense silver-grey pollinosity, yellow at tip. Legs: hind tibia with three 3 black rings, lacking any long setae. All fifth tarsomeres black, the rest grey yellow. Male terminalia. Epandrium with elongated ventral margin (Fig. 24). Cercus with two long setae (Fig. 24). Surstylus with one prensiseta apically (Fig. 24). Paramere submedially with two small processes and two sensilla; basal process lacking fine sawteeth (Fig. 25).

Measurements: BL = 3.25 mm in holotype; ThL = 1.60 mm; WL = 2.90 mm; WW = 1.25 mm.

Indices: arb = 5/0, adf = 0.75, flw = 1.67, FW/HW =0.52, ch/o = 0.14, prorb = 1.12, rcorb = 0.32, vb = 0.50, dcl = 0.35, presctl = 0.44, sctl = 1.15, sterno = 0.92, orbito = 1.36, dcp = 0.21, sctlp = 0.90, C = 2.90, 4c = 1.24, 4v = 2.66, 5x = 1.03, ac = 1.8, M = 0.71, C3F = 0.44.

Etymology: A combination of the Latin words longus and seta, referring to the cercus with long setae.

Distribution: China (Hubei).