Leucophenga brevifoliacea Huang & Chen

Huang, Jia, Li, Tong, Gao, Jianjun & Chen, Hongwei, 2013, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part II: the ornata species group from East Asia, with morphological and molecular evidence (I), Zootaxa 3701 (2), pp. 101-147 : 126-128

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631104

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scientific name

Leucophenga brevifoliacea Huang & Chen
status

sp. nov.

Leucophenga brevifoliacea Huang & Chen , sp. nov.

( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 G, 5C, 5D, 8G, 8H, 11C, 11D, 20)

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to L. arcuata sp. nov. in the patterns of abdominal tergites ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 G, H) and ventrad curved aedeagus ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 D), but can be distinguished from the latter by having the wing nearly brown anteriorly, lacking distinct patch on vein R2+3 ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 G), the aedeagus lacking minute, serrated processes and not narrowed distally ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 D).

Description. Ocellar triangle yellowish brown, with ca. 3–4 setae above ocellar setae. Frons brown. Pedicel yellow; first flagellomere yellowish brown. Clypeus brownish. Mesonotum brown, lacking distinct patch or stripe ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 C). Postpronotal lobe yellow. Acrostichal setulae in ca. 15–16 irregular rows ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 C). Scutellum mostly brown ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 C). Katepisternum nearly yellowish ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D). Wing ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 G): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with ca. 10 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Halter slightly brownish apically. Abdominal tergites brown to dark brown ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 G, H), with irregular, yellow margins; second broadly yellow medially; third to fifth with a pair of yellow patches submedially along anterior margins; sixth with X-shaped yellow patch medially in holotype ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 G); third to sixth with some changes in 1♂ paratype ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 H). Male terminalia: Epandrium with ca. 15 setae near posterior margin and ca. 10 setae near ventral corner per side ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 A). Hypandrium with 1 sensillum ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 B). Paramere short and rectangular, with 4 sensilla and pubescence ( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 C).

Measurements. BL = 4.60 mm in holotype (range in 2♂ paratypes: 3.67–4.67 mm), THL = 2.27 mm (1.60– 2.00 mm), WL = 3.96 mm (2.67–3.82 mm), WW = 1.83 mm (1.43–1.80 mm), arb = 11/5 (7–9/3–4), avd = 1.00 (0.88–1.00), adf = 1.55 (1.36–1.55), flw = 1.73 (1.45–1.64), FW/HW = 0.38 (0.36–0.38), ch/o = 0.04 (0.04–0.05), prorb = 0.77 (0.52), rcorb = 0.72 (0.56–0.66), vb = 0.32 (0.24–0.32), dcl = 0.49 (0.45), presctl = 0.67 (0.75), sctl = damaged (damaged), sterno = 0.76 (0.64–0.88), orbito = 2.17 (2.00–2.40), dcp = 0.24 (0.24), sctlp = 1.25 (1.00– 1.05), C = 2.59 (2.18–2.19), 4c = 1.23 (1.47–1.68), 4v = 1.88 (1.67–2.42), 5x = 1.08 (0.76–1.00), ac = 2.46 (2.44– 2.56), M = 0.54 (0.58–0.67), C3F = 0.81 (0.77–0.81).

Type specimens. Holotype ♂ (SCAU, No. 121787), CHINA: Wangtianshu, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°28'N, 101°38'E, alt. 580m, 23.iv.2006, ex tree trunk, HW Chen. Paratypes: CHINA: 1♂ (SCAU, No. 121788), Ailaoshan, Jingdong, Yunnan, 24°32'N, 101°01'E, alt. 2100m, 31.vii.2006, ex tree trunk, HZ Cao; 1♂ (SCAU, No. 121789), Nanling, Shaoguan, Guangdong, 25°00'N, 113°24'E, alt. 640m, 6.x.2004, ex tree trunk, HL Cao.

Etymology. A combination of the Latin word “ brevis ” (= short) + “ foliaceus ” (= folium), referring to the short paramere.

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Yunnan).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Drosophilidae

Genus

Leucophenga

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