Gladkara bifida sp. nov.

(Figs 4 A–I, 12M–P)

Type locality. China, Yunnan province, Mengyuan, Sanchahe nature reserve.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♁, CHINA: YUNNAN: Mengyuan, Sanchahe, 940 m, 20.xii.1999, I. Dworakowska leg. (NWAU) . PARATYPE: CHINA: YUNNAN: 1 ♀, Menglun, 570 m, 7.xii.1999, I. Dworakowska leg. (NWAU).

Description. Body slim, beige (Figs 12 M–P), forewing with black patch at tip of third apical cell.

Abdominal apodemes 2S (Fig. 4A) extended to hind margin of sternite III.

Male terminalia. Anal tube appendage (Figs 4B, C) with basal part relatively long, apical part knife-like, apex pointed and slightly curved ventrad. Pygofer side (Fig. 4B) rectangular, with oblique row of macrosetae from lower basal angle to dorso-caudal angle, variable in size, without long fine setae; dorsal appendage (Figs 4B, C) bifurcated, dorsal branch short, ventral branch much longer, directed ventrad basally then bent caudad at right-angle. Subgenital plate (Fig. 4E) relatively broad apically, with irregular row of 6–7 macrosetae, outer margin with row of stout setae subapically similar to those in type species. Style (Fig. 4F) curved ventrad apically, apex pigmented, without sculpture. Connective (Fig. 4G) with distinct central lobe. Aedeagus (Figs 4H, I) with pair of short processes on atrium and pair of long, straight preatrial processes; dorsal apodeme wider than preatrium in caudal view; gonopore terminal. Measurements. Male body length 3.75 mm; female body length 3.70 mm.

Diagnosis. Resembling the type species, G. albida, in having the apex of the style undecorated and the connective with a central lobe, and in the shape of the aedeagus, but with a much longer ventral branch of the pygofer dorsal appendage and two pairs of basal aedeagal processes.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin adjective “ bifidus ” which means “forked”, referring to the forked dorsal appendage of the pygofer.