Schizohelea clastrieri Szadziewski, Dominiak, Rumisek et Rupp 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Szadziewski, Ryszard
name: Dominiak, Patrycja
name: Rumišek, Mario
name: Neinhuis, Christoph
name: Wanke, Stefan
name: Rupp, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Schizohelea
Schizohelea clastrieri

description: Schizohelea clastrieri Szadziewski, Dominiak, Rumišek et Rupp, sp. nov.
(Figs. 7a–c, 8)
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Diagnosis. Second radial cell about 1.4 times longer than first radial cell. Macrotrichia on wing membrane absent. Male is distinct in having straight gonostylus, aedeagus with two apical submedian processes and a ventral plate armed with strong teeth, short and strong parameres, and bilobed apex of lateroventral expansion of gonocoxite. Female unknown.
Description
Male. Flagellum 0.76 mm long. Flagellomeres 12–13 of one antenna partly teratologically fused (Fig. 7a). Palpus longer than proboscis, third palpal segment 0.075 mm long (Fig. 7b). Wing length 1.55 mm, costal ratio CR 0.61; second radial cell short, about 1.4 times longer than first one (Fig. 7c). Wing membrane without macrotrichia. Scutellum with 4 marginal bristles and 6 shorter setae. Hind femur and tibia moderately stout. Hind tibial spur short, hind tarsomere 1 with palisade setae in one row, subbasal spine present. Tarsal ratio TR(1) 1.8, TR(2) 1.7, TR(3) 1.8. Male genitalia (Fig. 8). Lateroventral tubercle of gonocoxite distinct with bilobed apex (Fig. 8c). Gonostylus slender, almost straight, gradually tapering towards pointed apex, 0.9 of gonocoxite length (Fig. 8b). Parameres short and stout, apex strongly expanded into elliptic structure (Fig. 8d). Aedeagus arch-shaped, with 2 apical projections and ventral plate armed with 9 unequal teeth (Fig. 8e).
Female unknown.
Type material. Holotype male, Algeria, Sétif province, Ras Isly near Béjaia, 24.04.1981, R. Szadziewski leg. (CEIG).
Etymology. The new species is named in honour of the late Dr. Jean Clastrier (1910–1997) in recognition of his superb, numerous, and important contributions to our knowledge of biting midges of Africa and Europe.
Distribution. Algeria.
Comments. Schizohelea clastrieri resembles S. incerta in presence of dentate ventral plate of aedeagus and the shape of lateroventral gonocoxal tubercles. However, parameres in the new species are short and stout with strongly expanded apex, and the gonostylus is nearly straight (in S. incerta parameres are slender with short claw-like dark apical curved spine, and gonostyli are slightly C-curved). Aedeagus in S. clastrieri is also slightly similar to that in males of S. armata (Fig. 10a) and S. leucopeza, but the latter two species lack ventral plate with teeth and their parameres are slender.
description: Published as part of Szadziewski, Ryszard, Dominiak, Patrycja, Rumišek, Mario, Neinhuis, Christoph, Wanke, Stefan & Rupp, Thomas, 2024, Predatory midges of the genus Schizohelea Kieffer, 1917 in Europe and North Africa (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 169-187 in Zootaxa 5514 (2) on page 179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5514.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13849728