Homoneura (Homoneura) occipitalis Malloch, 1927

Shi, Li & Yang, Ding, 2009, Notes on the Homoneura (Homoneura) beckeri group from the Oriental Region, with descriptions of ten new species from China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), Zootaxa 2325, pp. 1-28 : 17

Homoneura (Homoneura) occipitalis Malloch, 1927

( Figs. 7 , 42–46 )

Homoneura (Homoneura) occipitalis Malloch, 1927: 170 .

Diagnosis. Face with a pair of blackish brown elliptical spots, two spots confluent on basal 1/3. Occiput with a wide grayish black median stripe confluent with ocellar triangle, and upper half of occiput with a large brown spot on each side, extending to vertical margin of eye. Fore femur with 3 strong pv. Antenna brownish black except 1st flagellomere pale yellow on ventral 1/3–1/2. Wing ( Fig. 7 ) with a narrow brown stripe on dmcu. Abdominal tergites 1–2 entirely black and tergite 3 mostly black except narrow yellow anterior margin, tergites 4–5 black on posterior 1/2 and yellow on anterior 1/2, and tergite 6 without spot in male and indistinct pale brown spot in female. Male genitalia ( Figs. 42–46 ): protandrium circular; epandrium nearly rectangular, slightly concaving on apicodorsal margin, with three pairs of dorsal bristles and a row of apical hairs in lateral view, surstylus narrow incurved stick–like in lateral view and bifurcated in ventral view; hypandrium with a pair of short bar–like ventral processes, gonopod columniform, slightly curved; aedeagus with a deep apical incision and a pair of falciform dorsal sclerites.

Material examined. CHINA, Zhejiang Province: 1 3 ( CAUC), 2 Ƥ ( CAUC), Longquan, Fengyangshan National Nature Reserve, Guanfuyang (1500 m), 31. VII. 2007, Yajun Zhu; CHINA, Guangdong Province: 1 3 ( CAUC), Nanling, Shumuyuan, 22 VIII. 2005, Junhua Zhang.

Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Guangdong, Taiwan).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 11. Wing. 1. Homoneura (Homoneura) apicomata sp. nov.; 2. H. (H.) columnaria sp. nov.; 3. H. (H.) convergens sp. nov.; 4. H. (H.) flavida sp. nov.; 5. H. (H.) latissima sp. nov.; 6. H. (H.) nigritarsis sp. nov.; 7. H. (H.) occipitalis Malloch; 8. H. (H.) semicircularis sp. nov.; 9. H. (H.) tortifurcata sp. nov.; 10. H. (H.) yinggelingica sp. nov.; 11. H. (H.) zhangae sp. nov..

FIGURES 42 – 46. Homoneura (Homoneura) occipitalis sp. nov. Male. 42. protandrium and epandrium, lateral view; 43. protandrium, anterior view; 44. epandrial complex, posterior view; 45. aedeagal complex, ventral view; 46. aedeagal complex, lateral view. Scale 0.1 mm.