PHORTICA PANDA CAO & CHEN SP. NOV.

(FIGS 5, 10, 20, 21)

Material examined: Holotype male, CHINA: Fengtongzhai, Baoxing, Sichuan, 20.ix.2005, H. W. Chen (SCAU, No. 120001).

Description: Male. Head: frons black on upper part, brown on lower part. Face black on upper part, orange-brown on lower part. Thorax: scutum with black patches and silver-grey pollinose pattern. Scutellum orange-brown, black along margin. Legs: hind tibiae with three black rings; subapically with two to three rows of short, scopiform setae on ventral surfaces (Fig. 5E) and one very long apical seta (Fig. 5B), lacking any long setae on ventral and posteroventral surface (Fig. 5). All fifth tarsomeres black, the rest grey-yellow. Male terminalia: ventral margin of epandrium not elongated (Fig. 20). Cercus with three strong setae (Fig. 20). Surstylus with two prensisetae apically (Fig. 20). Paramere mediobasally with a triangular projection, submedially with one small process, which bears one sensillum; basal process with fine sawteeth (Fig. 21).

Measurements: BL = 4.40 mm in holotype; ThL = 1.95 mm; WL = 3.50 mm; WW = 1.50 mm.

Indices: arb = 4/0, adf = 0.69, flw = 1.92, FW/HW = 0.56, ch/o = 0.12, prorb = 0.97, rcorb = 0.41, vb = 0.33, dcl = 0.59, presctl = 0.63, sctl = 1.05, sterno = 0.77, orbito = 2.00, dcp = 0.30, sctlp = 0.89, C = 2.70, 4c = 1.42, 4v = 2.83, 5x = 0.77, ac = 2.02, M = 0.64, C3F = 0.59.

Etymology: Pertaining to the giant panda, which was first discovered by P.D. Armand in 1869 in Baoxing, the type locality of the new fly species.

Distribution: China (Sichuan).