Metopina edwardsi, Disney, Henry L., 2008

Disney, Henry L., 2008, Review of Oriental Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1937, pp. 23-38 : 28-29

Metopina edwardsi sp. nov.

( Figs 20 )

Female. Frons and top of thorax brown, sides of thorax increasingly straw yellow. Frons with four SAs, the antials lower on frons than ALs, and closer to upper SAs than either is to an AL bristle. POs closer together than antials and MLs absent. Height of eye about twice width of postpedicel, which is subglobose, brown and without SPS vesicles. Palps almost half as broad as postpedicels, light brown and with 3 longer and 3 shorter bristles and about twice as many hairs. Labrum brown and about 1.4x as broad as a postpedicel. Labella narrow and very pale. Scutellum with an inner pair of long bristles and an outer pair of finer hairs (subequal to those on top of scutum). Abdominal tergites brown and T2 to T6 as Fig. 20 . Venter palish grey with numerous hairs below segments 3–6 and on flanks and above on 4–6. Cerci almost colourless and almost 2.5x as long as greatest breadth. Legs mainly straw yellow but hind femora are light brown. Wing 0.9–1.0 mm long. Costal index 0.50–0.52. Costal ratios 0.55–0.71: 1. Thick veins light yellowish brown. 4–6 grey but 7 very pale. Membrane tinged grey.

Material. Holotype female, Holotype female, Indonesia, Sulawesi-Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, Toraut Forest, yellow water trap, 30–31 January 1985, R. H. L. Disney ( UCZM, 16-22). Paratypes, 1 female, same data as holotype except on forest floor, 12 March 1985 (16–53); 2 females, same locality, Malaise trap, 21 July– 3 August 1985, A. Kirk-Spriggs (National Museum of Wales, 19-91& 95).

Etymology. Named after Captain Bob Edwards, a member of the Project Wallace support team.

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 20. Metopina females, abdominal tergites: (19) M. dormanae T 3 - T 6; (20) M. edwardsi T 2 - T 6. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.