Dohrniphora auricula, Brown & Kung, 2010

Brown, Brian V. & Kung, Giar-Ann, 2010, 2699, Zootaxa 2699, pp. 1-142 : 83

Dohrniphora auricula sp. n.

( Figs 181–182)

Species recognition. This species is easily recognized by the double row of peglike setae and the broad ventral process.

Description. Body length: 1.55–1.56 mm. Head: Frons brown, second row of setae slightly concave. Flagellomere 1 rounded-oval, light brown. Palpus of normal size, light brown. Thorax: Scutum light brown. Scutellum dark brown, with setae broken. Pleuron with proepisternum and dorsum of anepisternum brown, rest of pleuron yellowish-brown. Mean costal length 0.47 wing length. Halter whitish-yellow. Legs yellowishbrown, except apex of hind femur dark brown. Forecoxa in lateral view whitish-yellow. Foretibia with 3 dorsal setae. Foretarsomeres slender, elongate. Midcoxa brown. Hind coxa yellowish-brown. Hind coxal lobe light brown, moderately developed, triangular in lateral view. Posterior face of hind femur with short double line of peglike setae, well dorsal of ventral margin of hind femur; more distally with rounded, shallowly-concave ventral triangular process ( Figs 181–182). Abdomen: Abdominal tergite 1 light brown, tergites 2–6 dark brown, with yellow anterior and posterior margins. Venter of abdomen whitish-gray, with few setae, larger on posterior margin of segment 5. Male terminalia with epandrium light brown, hypandrium brown to dark brown, and cercus yellow.

Distribution. Known from a single site in Amazonian Brazil.

Derivation of specific epithet. From Latin for ear, referring to the shape of the ventral lobe of the hind femur.

Holotype. ♂, BRAZIL: Amazonas : Manaus, PDBFF Res. 1301, 3.13°S, 60.02°W, 20.xi.1985, B. Klein, Malaise trap, R.S.L.1 [ LACM ENT 236812 ] ( INPA).

Paratype. BRAZIL: Amazonas : Manaus, PDBFF Res. 1210, 3.13°S, 60.02°W, 1♂, 28.xi.1985, B. Klein, Malaise trap, R.L.E ( LACM) .