Conicera gracilis Michailovskaya
Creators: name: Liu, Guang-Chun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Phoridae
Conicera
Conicera gracilis

description: 3. Conicera gracilis Michailovskaya (Fig. 3A–E, 29B)
Conicera gracilis Michailovskaya, 2000: 12 (♂, Russia: Primorskii krai).
Description. Male. Body length 1.6–1.8 mm. Frons dark brown, broader than high. Supra-antennal setae present. Lower fronto-orbital setae absent. Lower interfrontal setae short, about 1/2 length of upper interfrontal setae and the distance between each other shorter than that between upper interfrontal setae. First flagellomere brown, 0.23 mm long, with an aspect ratio of 2.36:1; arista 0.28 mm long, 1.22 times as long as that of first flagellomere. Palpus dark brown, with 10 short setae apically.
Thorax dark brown. Legs dark brown, except fore leg brown. Fore tibia with 10 small near-dorsal setulae, the uppermost being longer than the rest. Fore tarsus with posterodorsal setal palisade on all five tarsomeres. Mid femur without sense-organ. Wing (Fig. 29B) length 1.15–1.20 mm. Costal index 0.38–0.40, costal ratio 2.36–2.64:1, costal setulae length 0.055 –0.058 mm. Rs without basisetula. Veins light brown, except A 1 +CuA 2 whitish gray. Membrane grayish brown. Halter dark brown.
Abdominal tergites dark brown. Terminalia (Fig. 3A) brown, but surstyli dark brown. Both left and right surstyli (Figs. 3B–E) similar. Each of them tapered to a pointed tip and with 6–8 inner teeth along the dorsal edge. Left surstylus with a long banded basidorsal process.
Female. Unknown.
Specimens examined. 1 ♂, Heilongjiang, Mudanfeng, 20-Jul-2019, Jiao Zhang, Zhongyin Wang, Zixuan Liu; 2♂, Jilin, Tonghua, Mt. Jingyu, 15-Aug-2003, Hong Fang; 1♂, Liaoning, Shenyang, Dongling, 30-Aug-2003, Hong Fang; 1 ♂, Liaoning, Fushun, Mt. Houshi, 6-Jun-2015, Zhiqiang Cheng; 1♂, Liaoning, Dandong, Mt. Wulong, 28- Jun-2015, Zhiqiang Cheng; 1♂, Liaoning, Dandong, Kuandian, Mt. Baishilazi, 29-Jun-2021, Jianfeng Wang; 7♂, Liaoning, Benxi, Mt. Wunv, 5-Jul-2012, Meng Yang; 1♂, Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, Botanical Garden, 19-Jul-2004, Hong Fang, Hongtao Han; 1♂, Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, Zhaojun Tomb, 19-Jul-2004, Hong Fang, Hongtao Han; 1♂, Inner Mongolia, Mt. Helan, 10-Aug-2010, Yunlong Cai; 1♂, Hebei, Zhuolu, Xiejiapu, 20-Jul-2005, Hong Fang, Wei Zhu; 1♂, Shaanxi, Qinling, 19-Jul-1992, Guangchun Liu; 1♂, Shaanxi, Dragon Lawn, 31-Jul-2013, Yunlong Cai; 1♂, Ningxia, Shapotou Nature Reserve (1800 m), 26-Jul-2004, Hong Fang; 1♂, Ningxia, Suyukou Forest Park, 23-Jul-2004, Hong Fang, Hongtao Han; 1♂, Ningxia, Yinchuan Forest School, 23-Jul-2004, Hong Fang, Hongtao Han; 1♂, Jiangsu, Yangzhou, Phoenix Island, 26-Jul-2005, Hong Fang, Wei Zhu; 1♂, Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmu, 2-Aug- 2005, Hong Fang, Wei Zhu; 1♂, Yunnan, Dali, Mt. Cangshan, 2-Aug-2009, Lixin Su.
Distribution. China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Yunnan), Russia (Far East).
Remarks. This species is recorded for the first time from China. In the specimens I examined, supra-antennal setae are present, it might be ignored in original description (see Michailovskaya, 2000). The species is similar to C. dauci (Meigen,1830), it differs from the latter by a long banded process of left surstylus, more inner teeth of surstyli, presence of supra-antennal setae and brownish fine veins.
description: Published as part of Liu, Guang-Chun, 2023, Revision of the genus Conicera Meigen (Diptera, Phoridae) from China, pp. 401-445 in Zootaxa 5380 (5) on page 405, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10254359