Phortica (Phortica) jamilii Chen & Toda & Lakim & Mohamed 2007, new species
Creators: name: Chen, Hong-Wei
name: Toda, Masanori J.
name: Lakim, Maklarin B.
name: Mohamed, Maryati B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Phortica
Phortica jamilii

description: Phortica (Phortica) jamilii Chen & Toda, new species   
(Figs. 11–15)  
  Diagnosis. –  Aedeagal median rod subapically with 1 pair of long slender projections and submedially with 1 pair of long, broad, apically bifurcated projections (Fig. 15).   
  Material examined. –  Holotype male (terminalia dissected), MALAYSIA: Park Headquarters, Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, coll. M. J. Toda, 20 Mar.1999 (KPSP). Paratype: 1 male (terminalia dissected), same data as the holotype except for 7 Mar.2000 (SEHU).   
 Description. – Male. Head: Frons brown with large triangular black patch on upper half.   
Thorax: Orange yellow. Scutellum with trifurcate brown patch, yellowish white on tip.  
Wing: Slightly smoky.  
Legs: All femora almost brown. Midleg tibia subapically lacking longer setae on anterior surface.  
Abdomen: First to fifth tergites yellow; second tergite with black patches submedially and laterally; third tergite with medially and laterally slightly protruded, sublaterally nearly interrupted, brown band on posterior margin; fourth and fifth tergites each with medially and laterally slightly protruded, brown band on posterior margin and 1 pair of small yellow patches sublaterally; sixth tergite nearly entirely black except yellow medial line, extended below at posterolateral corners (Fig. 11).  
Male terminalia: Epandrium pubescent anteroventrally and dorsomedially, with ca. 14-15 setae near dorsal to posterolateral margin per side (Fig. 12). Surstylus pubescent basally, with several wedge-shaped prensisetae on apical margin to inner surface (Fig. 13). Additional plate between cerci and 10th sternite pubescent, medially connected to 10th sternite (Fig. 14). Posterolateral lobe of hypandrium large, lacking pubescence (Fig. 15). Paramere lacking pubescence; apical process with 3 teeth apically and 1 sensillum subapically; median process triangular; proximal process slender, with 1 sensillum apically (Fig. 15). Vertical process of gonopods triangular lobe-like (Fig. 15). Aedeagal median rod subbasally with 1 pair of small processes; outer membranous tube convoluted apically, with transparent minute spinules subapically and basally (Fig. 15). Aedeagus with 1 pair of looped bridges basally (Fig. 15).  
Female: Unknown.  
Measurements: BL = 4.20 mm in holotype (1 male paratype: 4.18); ThL = 1.94 mm (1.83); WL = 3.20 mm (3.08); WW = 1.36 mm (1.28).  
Indices: arb = 3-4/2-3 (3-4/2-3), avd = 0.67 (0.70), adf = 1.45 (1.50), flw = 1.30 (1.40), FW/HW = 0.38 (0.35), ch/o = 0.06 (0.06), prorb = 1.00 (1.00), rcorb = 0.55 (0.60), vb = 0.35 (0.30), dcl = 0.55 (0.60), presctl = 0.60 (0.60), sctl = 1.00 (1.00), sterno = 0.90 (0.95), orbito = 1.30 (1.30), dcp = 0.25 (0.25), sctlp = 1.00 (1.00), C = 2.25 (2.20), 4c = 1.67 (1.60), 4v = 3.33 (3.00), 5x = 1.13 (1.10), ac = 5.00 (4.80), M = 0.75 (0.73), C3F = 0.70 (0.70).  
  Etymology. –  Patronym, in honor of Dr. Jamili Nais of the Sabah Parks, Malaysia.   
  Distribution.  – Malaysia (Sabah).   
  Remarks. –  This species is similar to P. (P.) eugamma (Toda & Peng, 1990) from southern China in the pattern of abdominal tergites, but can be distinguished from it by the aedeagal median rod (in P. eugamma: aedeagal median rod subapically with 1 single, submedially with 1 paired, small, simple projections).
description: Published as part of Chen, Hong-Wei, Toda, Masanori J., Lakim, Maklarin B. & Mohamed, Maryati B., 2007, The Phortica Sensu Stricto (Insecta: Diptera: Drosophilidae) From Malaysia, pp. 23-41 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5333042