Leucophenga acuticauda, Huang, Jia, Su, Yirui & Chen, Hongwei, 2017

Huang, Jia, Su, Yirui & Chen, Hongwei, 2017, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part VII: the subpollinosa species group from China, with morphological and molecular evidence, Zootaxa 4247 (3), pp. 201-245 : 227

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.3.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0C795602-87DE-412D-ADE4-153702AA887B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5665936
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C46016E-FFB4-FFF2-FEF0-FF3CFE5A0522
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Leucophenga acuticauda
status	sp. nov.

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Leucophenga acuticauda View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 H, 4E, 4F, 8H, 8I, 16)

Diagnosis. This species is mostly similar to L. cultella sp. nov. in having the wing fuscous along R1 and costa ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 H, I), the color patterns of abdominal tergites in both male ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 H, J) and female ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 I, K), and the surstylus acute apically ( Figs. 16 View FIGURE 16 , 17 View FIGURE 17 A), but can be distinguished from the latter by the hypandrium with 1 sensillum ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 B), and the aedeagus slightly ridgy submediodorsally ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 D); see below that species.

Description. Ocellar triangle dark brown, with ca. 2 setae above ocellar setae. Frons yellow to brownish. Pedicel yellow to brownish yellow; first flagellomere yellowish. Clypeus brownish medially, dark brown laterally. Palpus yellow. Mesonotum brownish yellow, with four brownish to brown, longitudinal stripes submedially and laterally in male ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E), brownish before scutellum in female. Postpronotal lobe yellow ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 F). Acrostichal setulae in ca. 6–8 irregular rows ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E). Scutellum dark brown, yellowish brown to brown at tip ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 E). Pleura, katepisternum and meron mostly brown above ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 F). Wing ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 H): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with ca. 4–7 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Abdominal tergites dark brown, with a pair of yellow patches submedially between 2nd to 3rd tergites in male ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 H), entirely black in female ( Fig. 8 View FIGURE 8 I). Male terminalia: Epandrium with ca. 9 setae near posterior margin per side ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 A). Paramere with ca. 5 sensilla submediodorsally ( Fig. 16 View FIGURE 16 C).

Measurements. BL = 2.73 mm in holotype (range in 1♂ and 5♀ paratypes: 2.33 mm in ♂, 2.47–2.73 mm in ♀), THL = 1.10 mm (1.10 mm in ♂, 1.13–1.20 mm in ♀), WL = 2.37 mm (2.03 mm in ♂, 2.20–2.40 mm in ♀), WW = 1.07 mm (1.00 mm in ♂, 1.03–1.13 mm in ♀), arb = 5/3 (6–8/2–3), avd = 0.77 (0.71–0.87), adf = 2.17 (2.00–2.33), flw = 2.17 (1.86–2.33), FW/HW = 0.34 (0.35–0.44), ch/o = 0.05 (0.03–0.05), prorb = 0.77 (0.64–0.84), rcorb = 0.86 (0.73–0.85), vb = 0.38 (0.27–0.60), dcl = 0.50 (0.37–0.44), presctl = 0.64 (0.31–0.44), sctl = 1.17 (1.21–1.42), sterno = 0.75 (0.63–0.80), orbito = 2.20 (1.80–2.50), dcp = 0.24 (0.25–0.33), sctlp = 1.00 (0.82–1.20), C = 2.25 (1.91–2.25), 4c = 1.29 (1.18–1.31), 4v = 2.39 (1.93–2.18), 5x = 1.92 (1.57–2.00), ac = 2.86 (2.77–3.07), M = 0.74 (0.63–0.79), C3F = 0.85 (0.81–0.85).

Type specimens. Holotype ♂ ( SCAU, No. 128865), CHINA: Baihualing, Baoshan , Yunnan, 1370m, 14.vi.2011, ex tussock, YR Su . Paratypes: CHINA: 1♀ ( SCAU, No. 128866), Xinling, Badong, Enshi , Hubei, 31°02'N, 110°22'E, 820m, 2.x.2013, ex tussock, JJ Gao GoogleMaps ; 1♂, 2♀ ( SCAU, Nos 128867–69), Mangshan, Yizhang , Hunan, 1200m, 3.x.2004, ex tussocks, MF Xu ; 6♀ ( SCAU, Nos 128870–75), Nanling, Shaoguan , Guangdong, 25°00'N, 113°24'E, 780m, 6.x.2004, ex tussocks, HW Chen. GoogleMaps

Distribution. China (Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Yunnan).

Etymology. A combination of the Latin words “ acutus ” (= acuted) + “ cauda ” (= cauda), referring to the surstylus acute apically.