Leucophenga brevipenis Huang &amp; Wang &amp; O'Grady &amp; Su &amp; Chen 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Jia
name: Wang, Yalian
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
name: Su, Yirui
name: Chen, Hongwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Leucophenga
Leucophenga brevipenis

description: <i>Leucophenga brevipenis</i> Huang &amp; Chen, sp. nov. (Figs. 3B, 6J–L, 10C, 14G, 14H, 25) <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species differs from the other species of the genus <i>Leucophenga</i> in having the epandrium entirely lacking seta (Fig. 25A); aedeagus subdorsolaterally with two long, subparallel processes; the thicker process bearing a sensillum at tip (Fig. 25D). <b>Description.</b> Ocellar triangle dark brown, with ca. 2 setae above ocellar setae. Postocellar setae minute (Fig. 6J). Frons brownish (Fig. 6J). Orb 3 and Orb 2 parallel (Fig. 6J). Pedicel brownish yellow to brownish; first flagellomere dark yellow (Fig. 6J). Clypeus entirely brownish yellow. Palpus brownish yellow (Fig. 6J). Mesonotum mostly brownish yellow (Fig. 6K). Postpronotal lobe dark yellow (Fig. 6L). Acrostichal setulae in ca. 12–14 irregular rows (Fig. 6K). Scutellum mostly brownish yellow (Fig. 6K). Pleura, katepisternum, and mesopleuron mostly dark yellow (Fig. 6L). Wing (Fig. 3B): entirely hyaline (Fig. 3B); costal vein between R 2+3 and R 4+5 distally with ca. 6 or 7 peg-like spinules on ventral surface; R 4+5 and M 1 slightly convergent distally; halter yellowish, usually with brownish yellow patches at stem and knob (Fig. 6K). Abdominal tergites black, 2nd tergite yellow medially and laterally, 3rd tergite not shortened, yellow anteriorly and laterally, 4th tergite yellow anteriorly (Fig. 10C). Male terminalia: Epandrium, cercus, and surstylus lacking pubescence (Fig. 25A). Hypandrium with 1 sensillum (Fig. 25B). Paramere narrow basally and apically, with ca. 3 sensilla medially and ca. 13 ones distally (Fig. 25C). <b>Measurements and indices.</b> BL = 4.00 mm in holotype (range in 3&amp;male; and 1&amp;female; paratypes: 3.33–3.67 in &amp;male;, 3.03 in &amp;female;), ThL = 1.80 mm (1.63–1.73 in &amp;male;, 1.57 in &amp;female;), WL = 2.87 mm (2.70–2.83 in &amp;male;, 2.73 in &amp;female;), WW = 1.38 mm (1.30–1.33 in &amp;male;, 1.20 in &amp;female;), arb = 8/5 (7–8/4–5), avd = 0.93 (0.86–0.94), adf = 1.88 (2.27–2.43), flw = 1.75 (1.87– 2.14), FW/HW = 0.31 (0.30–0.33), ch/o = 0.02 (0.03–0.03), prorb = 0.65 (0.64–0.68), rcorb = 0.80 (0.79–0.82), vb = 0.45 (0.53–0.56), dcl = damaged (0.46–0.50), presctl = damaged (0.50–0.52), sctl = damaged (1.18–1.26), sterno = damaged (0.83–0.88), orbito = 1.06 (1.06–1.14), dcp = 0.27 (0.30–0.34), sctlp = 1.03 (1.13–1.29), C = 1.88 (1.90–2.04), 4c = 1.24 (1.21–1.32), 4v = 1.69 (1.62–1.76), 5x = 1.11 (1.06–1.22), ac = 3.06 (2.88–3.40), M = 0.50 (0.49–0.52), C3F = 0.71 (0.71–0.75). <b>Type specimens.</b> Holotype &amp;male; (SCAU, No. 128605), CHINA: Guanlei, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°38'N, 101°10'E, alt. 562m, 20.iv.2016, ex tussock, J Huang. Paratypes: CHINA: 3&amp;male; (SCAU, Nos 128606–08), same data as holotype; 1&amp;female; (SCAU, No. 128609), Wangtianshu, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°28'N, 101°38'E, alt. 570m, 12.xi.2012, ex tussock, JJ Gao. <b>Distribution.</b> China (Yunnan). <b>Etymology.</b> A combination of the Latin words: “ <i>brevis</i> ” (= short) and “ <i>penis</i> ” (= aedeagus), referring to the short aedeagus.
description: Published as part of <i>Huang, Jia, Wang, Yalian, O'Grady, Patrick Michael, Su, Yirui &amp; Chen, Hongwei, 2018, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part VIII: twenty-one species from the Oriental region, with morphological and molecular evidence, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 4503 (1)</i> on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5297894