Paramyia nigritarsi, Levesque-Beaudin & Mlynarek, 2020

Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie & Mlynarek, Julia J., 2020, Revision of Nearctic Paramyia Williston (Diptera: Milichiidae), Zootaxa 4732 (1), pp. 1-56 : 24-27

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4732.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C4C108E8-71C8-4CAC-BB2B-908309BC6F3E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3664782

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B187B7-FFA8-FFE1-FF3A-F999C408A1E8

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Paramyia nigritarsi
status

sp. nov.

Paramyia nigritarsi View in CoL , new species

( Fig. 11–12 View FIGURE 11 View FIGURE 12 ; 26 View FIGURE 26 )

Description. ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ) Total length ♂ 1.3–1.4 mm, ♀ 1.7–1.8 mm. Overall colour dark brown to black, frontal tri- angle dark brown to black, shiny, reaching lunule; frons 1.05–1.25 times longer than wide and 1.7–1.8 times wider than flagellum; width at widest point 2.0–2.5 times the bottom eye width; gena dark brown with prunescence, 0.18 times eye height; postgena dark brown, with light prunescence and 0.25–0.27 width of head; scape and pedicel dark brown, first flagellomere trapezoidal, 1.1 times wider than long, dark brown with pale pubescence, arista dark brown and 1.63–1.78 times width of first flagellomere; strong facial carina, easily visible laterally; palpus dark brown with 4 enlarge setae apically, 1 longer ventral seta pre-apical and a row of short ventral setae, labium dark brown 0.36–0.39 mm and labella dark brown 0.47–0.51 mm long.

Scutum shiny dark brown to black; scutellum dark brown to black, microsetose; all legs: femur, tibia and tarsi dark brown; hind basitarsus equal length of tarsi 2–4 combined; haltere uniformly dark brown; wing 1.33–1.42 mm long; abdomen shiny dark brown.

Male postabdomen ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 ). Epandrium in lateral view 1.04 times wider than high, in posterior view 2.2 times wider than high (before cerci), small setae densely covering posterior portion of epandrium mixed with a low density of large setae; surstylus 1.5 times as high as epandrium, paddle shape with a large wavy structure situated basally with many short markings within and a large dent on the apical anterior side starting near mid-length, setae medium length, covering anterior side and distal half of surstylus; cerci short and blunt apically, 0.57 times length of surstylus in posterior view, with a pair of very long preapical setae and other shorter setae, less than 1/3 its length, apically swollen in lateral view.

Molecular barcode sequence can be accessed through GenBank Accession: [pending] and BOLD BIN: N/A ( sequence too short for the BIN algorithm). Distribution ( Fig. 26 View FIGURE 26 ). Southwestern United-States : New Mexico, Arizona Type material. Holotype ♂. UNITED STATES: New Mexico: Catron Co., 8 mi. SE. Luna, 33.82°N, 108.95°W, GoogleMaps

2286m, 9–14.vii.1979, S. Peck, J. Peck (DEBU).

Paratypes. UNITED STATES: Arizona: Catalina Mts., Htchk. Hwy. mi. 27, 32.44°N, 110.79°W, 1♀, 12.viii.1958, M.S. Adachi (USNM), Cochise Co. GoogleMaps , Rustler Park, Chiricahua Mts. , 31.84°N, 109.29°W, 2560m, 1♀, 21.viii.1964 (AMNH) GoogleMaps ; New Mexico: Catron Co., 5 mi. W Luna, San Francisco river, 33.82°N, 108.95°W, 2256m, 1♂, 9–14.vii.1987, S. Peck, J. Peck (DEBU) GoogleMaps , Catron Co. , 8 mi. SE. Luna , 33.82°N, 108.95°W, 2286m, 2♂, 9– 14.vii.1979, S. Peck, J. Peck (DEBU) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The species name nigritarsi comes from the Latin nigra , meaning black, combined with tarsi, which refers to the dark tarsi for all legs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Milichiidae

Genus

Paramyia

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