Phortica, 2009

He, Xiaofang, Gao, Jianjun, Cao, Huazhi, Zhang, Xiaolei & Chen, Hongwei, 2009, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Phortica hani species complex (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157 (2), pp. 359-372 : 368-369

PHORTICA LONGISETA CAO & CHEN SP. NOV.

( FIGS 12 , 24, 25 )

Material examined: Holotype male, CHINA: Shennongjia , Hubei, 5.viii.2001, H. W. Chen ( SCAU, No. 120002).

Description: Male. Head: frons almost black. Thorax: Scutellum black, with dense silver-grey pollinosity, yellow at tip. Legs: hind tibia with three 3 black rings, lacking any long setae. All fifth tarsomeres black, the rest grey yellow. Male terminalia. Epandrium with elongated ventral margin ( Fig. 24 ). Cercus with two long setae ( Fig. 24 ). Surstylus with one prensiseta apically ( Fig. 24 ). Paramere submedially with two small processes and two sensilla; basal process lacking fine sawteeth ( Fig. 25 ).

Measurements: BL = 3.25 mm in holotype; ThL = 1.60 mm; WL = 2.90 mm; WW = 1.25 mm.

Indices: arb = 5/0, adf = 0.75, flw = 1.67, FW/HW =0.52, ch/o = 0.14, prorb = 1.12, rcorb = 0.32, vb = 0.50, dcl = 0.35, presctl = 0.44, sctl = 1.15, sterno = 0.92, orbito = 1.36, dcp = 0.21, sctlp = 0.90, C = 2.90, 4c = 1.24, 4v = 2.66, 5x = 1.03, ac = 1.8, M = 0.71, C3F = 0.44.

Etymology: A combination of the Latin words longus and seta, referring to the cercus with long setae.

Distribution: China (Hubei).

Figures

Figures 7–12. Fifth sternites of male: 7, Phortica hani Zhang & Shi; 8, Phortica floccipes Cao & Chen sp. nov.; 9, Phortica hirtotibia Cao & Chen sp. nov.; 10, Phortica panda Cao & Chen sp. nov.; 11, Phortica longicauda Cao & Chen sp. nov.; 12, Phortica longiseta Cao & Chen sp. nov. The scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Figures 24, 25. Phortica longiseta Cao & Chen sp. nov., male. 24, epandrium, surstylus, and cercus; 25, hypandrium, gonopods, paramere, aedeagus, and aedeagal apodeme. For abbreviations see Figs 14 and 15. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.