Doliopteryx nodahaki Gharali & Evenhuis 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gharali, Babak
name: Evenhuis, Neal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Doliopteryx
Doliopteryx nodahaki

description: Doliopteryx nodahaki, sp. nov.
(Figs 1, 2)
Type material. Holotype ♂ (dried by HMDS) and 5 ♀ paratypes (in 96% alcohol), Nodahak, 13 July 2017, N 35°58'32.86" E 49°35'45.57", 1328 m a.s.l., Leg. B. Gharali (HMIM); 1 ♂ 11 ♀ paratypes, same data as holotype (in 96% alcohol) (BPBM), 1 ♂ 6 ♀ paratypes (in 96% alcohol), same data as holotype (BG).
Diagnosis. By using the key prepared for the world species of the genus Doliopteryx Hesse (Evenhuis, 2000), Doliopteryx nodahaki, sp. nov. runs to D. welwitschia Evenhuis but is easily distinguished by the completely black mesonotum while in D. welwitschia the prescutellar area (page 126, Fig. 21) is completely yellow. Doliopteryx welwitschia also has a white frons while in D. nodahaki, sp. nov. the apical half of the frons is completely black.
Description. Lengths: body: 1.1–1.3 mm; wing: 0.7–0.8 mm. Head (Fig 1a–b & d) globular; mentum black basally, yellow apically; face yellow with large black mark medially; frons lower half yellow, upper half black; occiput and vertex completely black; lateral ocelli at level equal to posterior eye margin, farther from each other than from anterior ocellus; eyes dichoptic; antennal indentation conspicuous; antennae (Fig. 1c) dark brown; scape elliptical, wider than long; pedicel subglobular, slightly wider than long; first flagellomere oblong oval, length 1.7 times greatest width; second flagellomere cylindrical, length 1.3 times width, style hyaline, length 1.7 times second flagellomere length; proboscis brown, small, shorter than head length.
Thorax. Mesonotum (Fig. 1d) black, except postalar calli very narrowly and postpronotal lobe yellow; yellow notopleural stripe incomplete, interrupted by brown color behind postpronotal lobe; scutellum black except a yellow line medially; anepisternum brown except margins widely yellow; anepimeron brown; katepisternum brown except upper margin yellow; meron brown; halter stem and knob yellow. Legs. Coxae brown; femora brown except for apex yellow; tibiae yellow; tarsi I–III yellow, the remainder of tarsi brownish. Wing (Fig. 1e). Hyaline; costa brown, ending at junction with R4+5; Sc very narrow, incomplete, ending much before costa; Rs shorter than rm crossvein; R2+3 turning up perpendicularly, meeting R1 and forming a small triangular cell; remainder of veins evanescent; M1 straight, basally separated from M2 by a distance longer than r-m crossvein; CuA1 fairly straight to wing margin; CuA2 slightly curved at wing tip.
Abdomen. Tergites brown, posterior margins yellow; sternites yellow; hypopygium black. Genitalia. Epandrium (Fig. 2b) narrowing lateroventrally as two dark brown processes; cercus brown triangularly; gonocoxites (Fig. 2a) triangular, joined together narrowly; gonostyli triangular, large, slightly smaller than gonocoxites; lateral aedeagal apodeme narrow, sinuous, basal aedeagal apodeme with two broad processes proximally.
Female. Similar to male.
Female genitalia. Furca U-shaped (Fig. 2d & e); common spermathecal duct very short; basal spermathecal duct absent; sperm pump (Fig. 2e) long, flared apically, apical spermathecal duct very narrow, more than two times sperm pump in length, spermathecal reservoir (Fig. 2c) consisting of two parts, the basal transparent pear-shaped part continues as the second highly sclerotized narrow recurved part.
Etymology. The name of species, nodahaki, is derived from the name of Nodahak village where the type specimens were collected.
Distribution. This species is currently known only from Nodahak village (Qazvin city) in northern Iran.
description: Published as part of Gharali, Babak & Evenhuis, Neal, 2017, First record of the genus Doliopteryx Hesse, 1956 (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Glabellulinae) from Iran, with description of two new species, pp. 393-400 in Zootaxa 4358 (2) on pages 394-395, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.12, http://zenodo.org/record/1068151