Howickia wahaika Marshall

Marshall, S. A., Luk, S. P. L. & Dong, H., 2014, A revision of the New Zealand species of Howickia Richards, Zootaxa 3887 (1), pp. 1-36 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A305AADA-ED80-4894-B8C4-2091F2F35544

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6129807

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C87B373-63A9-4FD7-B91E-ADB0FF6F9B03

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:8C87B373-63A9-4FD7-B91E-ADB0FF6F9B03

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Howickia wahaika Marshall
status

sp. nov.

Howickia wahaika Marshall View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 70–74 View FIGURES 70 – 74 )

Description. Head: Eye 2.8–3.0X genal height. Thorax: Scutellum 2.0X as wide as long; basal and apical marginal bristles subequal in length.

Male abdomen: Sternite 5 as long as sternite 4 medially, posteromedial area pale with a very pale central strip flanked by about 7 inclinate, short, stout bristles on each side; posteromedial margin with a straight comb of about 20 closely appressed flat bristles. Subanal plate complete, unusually high, fringed with short bristles on each side; ventral part of cercus projecting well below subanal plate, with one long and several shorter bristles. Surstylus broadly ovate, with a single long, narrow anteroventrally directed lobe bristle behind a posteriorly directed fingerlike lobe; fingerlike lobe with a smaller pale apical bristle. Distiphallus very narrow, tubular, tapered. Postgonite long and narrow, curved in apical third. Basiphallus frame-like, projecting posteriorly beyond distiphallus base for a distance almost equal to width of distiphallus base.

Female. No females with everted ovipositors were available for study.

Type material. Holotype (male, NZAC): "Upper Maitai, 3.5.50, E.S. Gourlay" (near Nelson, South Island). Paratypes: Same as holotype (2 males, one headless, NZAC); South Island, Lewis River Valley, Duggan’s Creek, fungus trap #3, beech forest, S. Hodge, 1998, debu00104550 (male, DEBU); Titi Island, Cook Straight, in litter at entrance of petrel burrow, J.G. Stahl, 17.Jan.2012 (9 specimens in alcohol; NMNZ; 2 males with abdomens removed).

Etymology. The specific epithet is from the Maori name for a short war club, and refers to the short and broad surstylus of this species.

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

DEBU

Ontario Insect Collection, University of Guelph

NMNZ

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sphaeroceridae

Genus

Howickia

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