Frutillaria glabra Kits & Marshall, 2011, sp. n.
Creators: name: Kits, Joel H.
name: Marshall, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sphaeroceridae
Frutillaria
Frutillaria glabra

description: Frutillaria glabra sp. n.
(Figs. 32–34, 79, 80, 84, 109)
Description. Length 1.9–2.6 mm (head + thorax 0.7–1.1 mm)
Head entirely orange-yellow. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle.
Thorax black, postalar callus and scutellum reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum with some microtomentum anteriorly, bare posteriorly, scutellum mostly bare with some microtomentum around margins. Anepisternum mostly shiny, some microtomentum around spiracle and along posterior crease. Katepisternum with a large shiny patch behind fore coxa extending posteriorly as a triangle to near bristle, narrowly separated from posterior shiny patch by a band of microtomentum. Meron and metapleuron shiny with the exception of a stripe of microtomentum between posterior thoracic spiracle and base of hind coxa. Laterotergite mostly shiny.
Legs black, fore coxa dark reddish brown, trochanters, joints, and tarsi orange-yellow. Fore femur mostly shiny posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.
Male abdomen (Figs. 32–34): Tergites 1–5 with some microtomentum on basal 1/3. Tergites 2–4 shiny, tergite 5 mostly shiny with some microtomentum along posterior margin. Surstylus with a broad basal part, short inner arm, outer corner not produced. Postgonite bilobed, both lobes long. Epiphallus short, laterally broadened at tip; preepiphallus long, bulbous distally. Distiphallus with lateral arms short, angled and strongly narrowed just before tip; central projecting sclerite complex, heavily ridged and frilled, with a transverse ridge across dorsal tip bearing small teeth on either side; ventral sacs present, not sclerotized.
Female abdomen (Figs. 79, 80, 84): Tergites 1–4 with some microtomentum on basal 1/3, tergite 5 mostly covered with microtomentum, microtomentum sparse apically, tergite 6 with shiny basal band, covered with microtomentum apically, tergite 7 mostly shiny with some microtomentum apically, tergite 8 shiny. Sternites 2–4 shiny, sternite 5 with some scattered microtomentum, sternite 6 mostly covered with tomentum, shiny on basal ½, sternite 7 mostly shiny with some microtomentum apically. Tergite 8 complete, epiproct long-triangular without anterior arms. Sclerites of sternite 8 comma-shaped, hypoproct with a U-shaped sclerite. Spermathecae with basal invagination long, mushroom-shaped, annulated; apical invagination short, subconical, smooth.
Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Araucanía: Temuco, Cerro Ñielol Natur. Mon., 13 Dec 1984 – 12 Feb 1985, carrion trap, 300 m, mixed evergreen forest, S.&J. Peck (MNNC). Paratypes: same data as holotype (8 3, 4 Ƥ, DEBU); Temuco, Cerro Ñielol Natur. Mon., 38°43'S 72°35'W, 250 m, native forest remnants with Nothofagus, FMHD #82-824, dung trap (human), 14–30 Dec 1982, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (27 3, 12 Ƥ, FMNH).
Comments. This species is currently only known from the type locality, a nature reserve within the city of Temuco.
description: Published as part of Kits, Joel H. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011, A revision of Frutillaria Richards and Penola Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Archiborborinae), pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 2863 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203208