Chelipoda puhihiroa Published 2007, sp. n.
Creators: name: Published, First
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Chelipoda
Chelipoda puhihiroa

description: 23. <i>Chelipoda puhihiroa</i> sp. n. [Figs. 54, 106, 107] <b>Type material.</b> Holotype ♂: <b>New Zealand,</b> South Is., NC, Glen Wye Station, Hope River Val., 42 o 37'S, 172 o 21'E, site code ' Front Dismal', FIT in forest canopy, 17–31/xii/2000, RKD, dried from alcohol on card point [NZAC]. Paratypes: 1♀, MB, Glen Hope Station, 42 o 32'S, 172 o 24'E, site code ' Meat Safe', FIT in forest canopy, 26/i–9/ii/2001, RKD, dried from alcohol on card point [NZAC]; 1♀, MB, Nina Valley, west of Boyle River, 42 o 28'S, 172 o 21'E, site code ' Nina Control', FIT in forest canopy, 16/xii/200– 2/i/2001, RKD, in alcohol [NMWC]; 1♀, SI, Stewart Is, Christmas Village Hut, 46.7449 o N, 167.9745 o E, NZMG 5373190 N 212584E, 18/i/2000, RKD, in alcohol [NMWC]. <b>Etymology:</b> the specific epithet is a Maori description of the long antennae of this species; <i>puhihi</i>, antenna; <i>roa</i>, long. <b>Description. Male:</b> length = 3.5–5.0mm. <i>Head</i>: brownish-black, greyish dusted, face whitish-yellow. Antennae brownish-black, scape paler, postpedicel very long, about 20X as long as wide at base, very little inflated basally and arista completely absent. <i>Thorax</i>: rather darker than <i>C. longicornis</i> with <i>pprnlb</i> brownish; ground colour submedian, side, and dorsal prescutellar stripe of mesonotum strongly marked, blackish, and a fainter narrow black dorsal stripe anteriorly; interstices between stripes densely dusted grey; pleura similar to but with darker ground colour than <i>C. longicornis</i>, strongly greyish-white dusted on yellowish regions between dark ground colour stripes, appearing distinctly black and white striped in dry specimens. Chaetotaxy similar to <i>C. longicornis</i> but single <i>ph</i> without smaller setae in front. <i>Legs</i>: brownish-yellow, C 1, F 1 and T 1 somewhat paler, C 1 about 1.2X length of thorax, about same length as F 1 with only fine pale pile in front and at sides and with brown bristly hairs apically; C 2 and C 3 with only short pile and a 'fan' of small pale bristles anteroapically, stronger on C 3; C 1 similar to <i>C. longicornis</i> but denticles and spines less numerous, femoral formula 4(4–4)/15.5(15–16)/11(11–11)/4(4–4), basal ventral bristle small and fine; T 2 with two fine <i>pv</i> bristles 0.7–0.8 from base, legs otherwise similar to longicornis. <i>Wing</i> and <i>abdomen</i>: similar to <i>C. longicornis</i>. Male genitalia very similar to <i>C. longicornis</i> with median lobe of postgonite rather differently bristled. <b>Description. Female:</b> very similar to male but postpedicel only about 10X as long as wide at base, rather gradually tapered with a minute terminal arista (&lt;0.05X length of postpedicel). Mesonotum with anterior dorsal stripe more strongly developed, the interstices between it and the submedian stripes sometimes tending to yellowish. F 1 with basal ventral bristle well developed, femoral formula 4(4–4)/16(13–16)/14(12–14)/4(4–4). <b>Comments</b>. <i>C. puhihiroa</i> is closely related to and easily confused with to <i>C. longicornis</i> and <i>C. cornigera</i> (see discussion under <i>C. longicornis</i>). It is confined to forested regions of New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island with records of adults from December to February inclusive. A single very 'bleached' female in alcohol from North Island, TO, Whirinaki Forest, 13–14/xii/1986, ARP [NMWC] may also be this species.
description: Published as part of <i>Published, First, 2007, The Hemerodromiinae (Diptera: Empididae) of New Zealand II. Chelipoda Macquart, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1537 (1)</i> on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1537.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5088638