Homoneura (Homoneura) bicolorata Gao & Shi 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gao, Xuefeng
name: Shi, Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Homoneura
Homoneura bicolorata

description: Homoneura (Homoneura) bicolorata sp. nov.
(Figs 13−18, 19−23)
Description. MALE. Body length 6.9 mm, wing length 6.2 mm.
Head (Figs 14−15) yellow. Ocelli brownish red; ocellar setae, anterior fronto-orbital setae and posterior frontoorbital setae incomplete. Parafacial yellow with a row of short setulae on vental half of inner margin. Gena about 1/6 height of eye. Antenna yellow, 1st flagellomere about 2.3 times longer than high; arista blackish brown, with longest ray as long as height of 1st flagellomere. Proboscis and palpus yellow.
Thorax (Fig. 16) yellow. Postpronotum yellow. Mesonotum with 0+3 dorsocentral setae (1st post–sutural dorsocentral setae behind the transversal suture), acrostichal setulae in irregular 8 rows. Legs mostly yellow, all tarsomeres 3–5 pale brown at apex. Fore femur with 6 posterodorsal setae, 4 posteroventral setae and ctenidium with 17–19 short setae; fore tibia with 1 long preapical anterodorsal seta and 1 short apicoventral seta. Mid femur with 5 anterior setae and 1 short apicoposterior seta; mid tibia with 1 strong preapical anterodorsal seta and 3 strong apicoventral setae. Hind femur with 1 preapical anterodorsal seta; hind tibia with 1 long preapical anterodorsal seta and 1 short apicoventral seta. Wing (Fig. 18) pale yellow, brown apical spots on R 2+3, R 4+5 and M 1 entirely separated; basal edge of brown apical spot on R 2+3 distinctly behind vertical level of spot on R 4+5 and M 1, basal edge of apical spot on R 4+5 behind vertical level of spot on M 1; one round spot on R 4+5 situated at middle point of distance between crossveins r-m and dm-cu; brown cloud on crossvein dm-cu, constricted at middle; subcostal cell brown; 2nd (between R 1 and R 2+3), 3rd (between R 2+3 and R 4+5) and 4th (between R 4+5 and M 1) sections in proportion of 3.4:1.4:1; r-m before middle of discal cell; ultimate and penultimate sections of M 1 in proportion of 1:1.6; ultimate sections of CuA 1 about 1/8. Halter pale yellow.
Abdomen (Fig. 13) yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 17, 19−23): syntergosternite 7+8 circular, a seta dorsal to spiracle; epandrium broad in lateral view; surstylus light color and narrow at base while dark yellow and broad at apex, nearly trapeziform with two long setulae in lateral view; hypandrium reverse U-shaped; pregonite round apically in venral view, postgonite hook-like in lateral view; phallus slender in ventral view and broad in lateral view; phallapodeme shorter than phallus.
FEMALE. Unknown.
Type Material. Holotype ♂ (IMAU), CHINA, Shaanxi Province, Hua County, Gaotang Town, Dongyu Vil- lage, huangbiangou, 1070 m, 7. VII. 2014, Lei Zhang.
Distribution. China (Shaanxi).
Remarks. The new species is similar to Homoneura (Homoneura) zhangjiajiensis Shi & Yang, 2014 from China (Hunan), but the latter has the following features: the surstylus being narrow columnar in lateral view and being broad with tiny setulae in posterior view; the postgonites being triangular with sharp apex in lateral view.
Etymology. Latin, bi -, meaning double + colorata, meaning colorful, referring to the surstylus being light color at base and dark yellow at apex; a feminine adjective.
description: Published as part of Gao, Xuefeng & Shi, Li, 2019, Nine new species of genus Homoneura from Qinling mountains in China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), pp. 401-432 in Zootaxa 4608 (3) on pages 405-410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3770275