Trichocoelina quintula Vilkamaa & Menzel 2019, sp. n.
Creators: name: Vilkamaa, Pekka
name: Menzel, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Trichocoelina
Trichocoelina quintula

description: Trichocoelina quintula sp. n.
Figs 14 A, 16 A
Material studied. Holotype male. FINLAND, Lkor (Lapponia kemensis orientalis) Salla, Värriö, Kuntasjoki (grid 7520406:3610772), Malaise trap, 29.VII –19.IX.2013, J. Salmela (in MZH).
Description. Male. Head. Face brown, antenna darker brown, maxillary palpus pale yellowish. Eye bridge 3 facets wide. Face with 20 fine setae. Clypeus with 2 setae. Maxillary palpus with 3 segments, lengths of segments poorly comparable in the specimen studied; 3 rd segment longer than 2 nd segment; 1 st segment with 1 seta, with a dorsal patch of sensilla; surface of antennal flagellomeres smooth, body of 4 th antennal flagellomere 2.1x as long as wide, the neck shorter than broad, the longest setae shorter than the width of flagellomere. Thorax. Brown, setae pale. Anterior pronotum with 7 setae. Proepisternum with 8 setae. Scutellum with 3 longer and some short and fine setae. Wing. Fumose. Length 2.0 mm. Width/length 0.40. Anal lobe moderate. Veins distinct. c/w 0.75. R 1 /R 0.90. stM and fork of M subequal in length. bM slightly longer than r-m, bM and r-m non-setose. Halter yellow. Legs. Yellow, coxal setae pale. Fore tibial organ forming a large distinct patch of pale setae in depression. Fore tibial spur longer than the tibial width. Abdomen. Pale brown, setae pale, moderately long. Hypopygium (Fig. 14 A). Brown, as abdomen. Intergonocoxal area long, with 2 small separate setose lobes. Gonocoxa narrow, longer than gonostylus, with short sparse setosity, medial margin basally smoothly curved. Gonostylus (Fig. 16 A) elongated, apically slightly narrowed, strongly impressed; with short setosity, a long and narrow apical tooth, and 5 medial megasetae; megasetae strong and slightly curved; with a long whiplash seta basad from the megasetae. Tegmen subtriangular, apically roundish, laterally straight, weakly sclerotized, with area of small aedeagal teeth. Aedeagal apodeme narrow and long.
BIN. Unknown.
Discussion. Trichocoelina quintula sp. n. resembles somewhat T. hiemalis (Mohrig & Mamaev) in having small intergonocoxal lobes and at most slightly curved, oblique gonostylar megasetae but differs in its much narrower gonostylus and in having only five, not more than ten, megasetae and in its narrower tegmen, see Figs 14 A, 16 A and fig. 4 in Mohrig et al. (1985). Trichocoelina quintula resembles also T. cochleata (Rübsaamen) but differs in having the gonostylus darker, not paler than gonocoxa, the gonostylus less strongly curved, the gonostylar megasetae shorter and stronger, smaller intergonocoxal lobes, and in lacking a semicircular rim on the tegmen.
Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin word quintus, fifth, referring to the five megasetae of the gonostylus.
description: Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka & Menzel, Frank, 2019, Re-classification of Lycoriella Frey sensu lato (Diptera, Sciaridae), with description of Trichocoelina gen. n. and twenty new species, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 4665 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000553