Ozeoura narahdarn, Theischinger & Billingham & Growns, 2018

Theischinger, Gunther, Billingham, Zacariah D. & Growns, Ivor, 2018, Ozeoura-a New Genus of Chioneinae (Insecta: Diptera: Tipuloidea: Limoniidae) from Australia, Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (5), pp. 447-468 : 459-460

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1714
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FF083CDE-BA28-458F-90CE-5A11539FDA3F
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2D1287B1-B74C-1E25-18C5-FB4BDC94FFAE
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Ozeoura narahdarn
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Ozeoura narahdarn View in CoL sp. nov.

Theischinger & Billingham

Figs 36, 37 View Figures 36, 37 , 41 View Figures 38–50

Holotype ♂, ANIC 040815 View Materials , Australia, Queensland, Moses Creek , 4 km N by E of Mt Finnegan (at light), 15-x-1980, D. H. Colless; specimen dry, pinned, terminalia preserved (glycerol) in microvial on the pin . Paratypes 1♂ ( AM K.421143), Australia, Queensland, Cape Tribulation, Pilgrim Sands , 16-i-1992, G. Theischinger ; 1♂ ( AM K.421144), Australia, Queensland, Tully River Gorge, 8-iv-1997, G. Theischinger & L. Mueller .

Description ♂ (♀ unknown).

Head: with top brownish yellow to pale brown; rostrum, palp and antenna medium brown, side of vertex greyish yellow to dull orange.

Thorax: Pronotum dull yellow. Remainder yellowish brown, only anterior portion of prescutum dark to blackish brown and scutellum and mediotergite pale greyish brown. Legs brownish yellow becoming increasingly but only slightly darker from coxa to middle of tarsus, only apical portion of tarsus dark greyish brown. Wing base and halter brownish yellow, remainder of wing suffused with pale grey.

Abdomen: greyish brown.

Terminalia ( Figs 36, 37 View Figures 36, 37 ): Gonocoxites long, at least as long as gonostyli which are forked near the base with one arm bowed and pointed and the other (mesal) arm with additional branch, both with apex rounded and strongly setose; aedeagus with apical portion simple and thin; aedeagal guide roughly narrowly trapezoidal; epandrium apparently bilobed and partly covering base of gonocoxites.

Dimensions: Wing length 4.2 mm.

Etymology. Narahdarn is from one of Australia’s Aboriginal languages and is a word for “bat”; a noun in apposition to the generic name alluding to small, crepuscular, flight.