Metopina prolongata, Disney, Henry L., 2008

Disney, Henry L., 2008, Review of Oriental Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1937, pp. 23-38 : 31

Metopina prolongata sp. nov.

( Fig. 22 )

Female. Frons and top of thorax brown, sides of thorax mostly straw yellow. Frons with four SAs but no other bristles between these and anterior ocellus. Postpedicels subglobose, light brownish yellow, about half as wide as length of eye, and without SPS vesicles. Palps coloured as postpedicels or slightly darker and with 2 longer and 3 shorter bristles and as many hairs. Labrum straw yellow. Labella paler. Scutellum with an inner pair of long but fine bristles and an outer pair of much shorter and finer hairs (about equal to those in middle of scutum). Abdominal tergites brown with T4 to T6 as Fig. 22 . Venter brownish grey with hairs below segments 3–6 and on flanks of 5 and 6, and dorsally on segment 4. Cerci almost colourless. Legs straw yellow. Wing 0.79 mm long. Costal index 0.52. Costal ratios 0.70: 1. Thick veins pale greyish yellow. 4–6 grey but 7 very pale. Membrane very lightly tinged grey.

Material. Holotype female, Philippines, Palawan, Irawan Valley, 22–27 August 1985, R. Harvey (leg. R. S. George) ( UCZM, 3-148).

Etymology. Named after the exceptionally long anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5.

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 22. Metopina females, abdominal tergites: (21) M. palawanensis T 4 and T 5; (22) M. prolongata T 4 to T 6. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.