Phobeticomyia lunifera

Shi, Li, Li, Wenliang & Yang, Ding, 2009, Two new species of the genus Phobeticomyia from China (Diptera, Lauxaniidae), Zootaxa 2090, pp. 57-68 : 61-62

Phobeticomyia lunifera (de Meijere, 1910)

( Figs. 3–4 , 10 , 18–22 )

Lauxania lunifera de Meijere, 1910: 134. Type locality: Indonesia (Java: Batavia (=Jakarta)).

Diagnosis. Antenna yellow except scape and pedicel black, 1st flagellomere tinged brown on apical 1/2–2/3. Wing ( Fig. 10 ) with a hyaline stripe at extreme tip; four hyaline median spots separated entirely or slightly confluent between R2+3 and R4+5; two hyaline spots below r-m in the discal cell, and two unconnected hyaline spots on dm-cu; a large triangular hyaline spot confluent with hyaline spot on dm-cu and a hyaline subapical stripe constricted at middle in m1 cell; a hyaline round median spot near CuA1 and an undulating hyaline stripe along hind margin of cua1 cell. Abdomen black, with sparse grayish white pollen. Male genitalia ( Figs. 23–27 ): protandrium circular with a median incision; epandrium broad, nearly knife–like in lateral view; surstylus with a broad apical process, a small bulb–like subapical process and a narrow long curved inner process, basally inserted into median concavity of epandrium in lateral view; hypandrium Y–shaped, gonopod narrow and hook–shaped; aedeagus with a pair of quadrate basal processes, a pair of median teeth and a pair of acuate triangular apical processes in ventral view.

Material examined. 4 males, 1 female, Hainan: Yinggeling National Natural Reserve, Hongmao village (430 m), 21–22. V. 2007, Junhua Zhang; 3 females, 1 male, Hainan: Yinggeling National Natural Reserve, Hongmao village (430 m), 21. V. 2007, Kuiyan Zhang; 1 male, 3 females, Hainan: Jianfengling National Natural Reserve, Zhiwuyuan (800 m), 24. X. 2007, Ding Yang; 3 males, 1 female, Hainan: Jianfengling National Natural Reserve, Zhiwuyuan (800 m), 9. V. 2008, Qifei Liu; 1 female, Hainan: Jianfengling National Natural Reserve, Mingfenggu (800 m), 25. X. 2007, Xingyue Liu; 2 males, 1 female, Hainan: Wuzhishan National Natural Reserve, Guanshantai (600 m), 16. V. 2007, Junhua Zhang; 1 male, Hainan: Wuzhishan National Natural Reserve, Guanshantai (600 m), 29. X. 2007, Xingyue Liu.

Distribution: China (Hainan, Taiwan), India (Madras, Mysore), Indonesia (Java, Jakarta, Semarang), Malaysia (Sabah), Nepal, Philippines (Mindanao), Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam.

Remarks. In our examined material, the aedeagus has a pair of distinct median teeth. However, the figures of specimens from Thailand ( Sasakawa, 1987) and from Malaysia ( Sasakawa & Pong, 1990) differ distinctly in the aedeagal characters and the aedeagus has no distinct teeth.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Heads in anterior view and lateral view. 1, 2. Phobeticomyia digitiformis sp. nov.; 3, 4. Phobeticomyia lunifera (de Meijere); 5, 6. Phobeticomyia spinosa Sasakawa; 7, 8. Phobeticomyia uncinata sp. nov.

FIGURES 9 – 12. Wings. 9. Phobeticomyia digitiformis sp. nov.; 10. Phobeticomyia lunifera (de Meijere); 11. Phobeticomyia spinosa Sasakawa; 12. Phobeticomyia uncinata sp. nov.

FIGURES 18 – 22. Phobeticomyia lunifera (de Meijere). Male. 18. protandrium and epandrium, lateral view; 19. protandrium, anterior view; 20. epandrial complex, posterior view; 21. aedeagal complex, ventral view; 22. aedeagal complex, lateral view.

FIGURES 23 – 27. Phobeticomyia spinosa Sasakawa. Male. 23. protandrium and epandrium, lateral view; 24. protandrium, anterior view; 25. epandrial complex, posterior view; 26. aedeagal complex, ventral view; 27. aedeagal complex, lateral view.