Paramyiolia melanogaster Han & Chen 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Han, Ho-Yeon
name: Chen, Xiao-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Paramyiolia
Paramyiolia melanogaster

description: Paramyiolia melanogaster Han & Chen sp. nov. (Figs. 5, 13, 14, 21, 27, 32).   
TYPE MATERIAL  
HOLOTYPE: 3, CHINA: Sichuan: Mt. Emei, Jiulaotong, 4-VIII-1957, F.X. Zhu.  DIAGNOSIS  
 Paramyiolia melanogaster can be distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characteristics: 1) wing with narrow, medially-interrupted C-band extending from DM-Cu to anterior apical wing margin and then along margin to slightly beyond apex of vein R 4+5; 2) head and thorax including legs almost completely yellow brown; and 3) abdominal tergites 1-5 brown, distinctly darker than head and thorax (female unknown).   DESCRIPTION  
 Body (Figs. 5, 13, 14) with head and thorax yellow brown and abdomen brown; setae brown to dark brown and setulae mostly yellow brown; wing length 3.9 mm and thorax length 1.7 mm. Male head (Fig. 21) largely yellow brown except dark brown ocellar triangle; frons sparsely covered with fine yellow brown setulae, deeply concave with highly modified frontal setae; anterior 2 frontal setae enlarged with 2 nd seta slightly shorter than and about 0.7x as thick as 1 st seta; posterior 2 frontal setae normal, less than 0.5x as long as 1 st seta; fronto-orbital plate associated with enlarged setae sharply elevated; frontal-head ratio 0.35, eye ratio 0.77 and genal-eye ratio 0.08; inner vertical seta 0.8x longest diameter of eye; outer vertical seta 0.6x as long as inner vertical seta; postocellar seta 0.4x as long as inner vertical seta; paravertical seta 0.5x as long as postocellar seta; ocellar triangle dark brown; ocellar seta 1.8x as long as ocellar triangle; antenna with scape and pedicel with dark brown setulae; parafacial very narrow, less than 0.2x as wide as flagellomere 1; facial ridge with short fine pale setulae; genal seta yellow brown; postgena moderately swollen with long yellow brown setulae; postocular setae extended 0.6x distance from upper eye margin to lower eye margin; supracervical setulae yellow brown; maxillary palp with brown apical and subapical setulae. Thorax entirely yellow brown with brown to dark brown setae and yellow brown setulae; scutum heavily pruinose; dorsocentral seta about 0.4x distance from level of intra-alar seta to postsutural supra-alar seta; scutellum slightly convex, almost bare with few tiny marginal setulae, basal seta 2.2x as long as scutellum and apical seta 1.5x as long as scutellum; proepisternum densely covered with long yellow brown setulae; anepisternum with lower seta hair-like, about 0.7x as long as upper seta; mediotergite shiny yellow brown. Legs yellow brown; fore femur with 4 posteroventral setae; midtibial spur as long as midtibia width. Wing (Fig. 13) hyaline with brown to yellow brown pattern; typical Anomoia - type pattern narrow, medially-interrupted C-band extending from DM-Cu to anterior apical wing margin and then along margin to slightly beyond apex of vein R 4+5; crossvein DMCu strongly oblique forming apically pointed cell dm; basal area enclosed by pterostigma, crossvein R-M, and basal half of cell DM-Cu almost entirely brown except for hyaline spot covering middle 1/3 of cell c; wing-thorax ratio 2.3, vein R 4+5 ratio 2.3, vein M ratio 0.58 and subcostal-costal ratio 0.52; R 4+5 with 10 tiny setulae between node and crossvein R-M.   
Male abdomen (Fig. 5) about as long as wide with tergites 1-5 brown and sternites 1-5 yellow brown; epandrium (Fig.27) brown and surstylus yellow brown; lateral surstylus with both anterior and posterior lobes angular, truncate apically in lateral view; glans (Fig. 32) with distinct subapical lobe; acrophallus abruptly narrowed near apex, directed downward at about 75 degree angle; dorsal sclerite without extensive sculpture pattern found in most other genera of the subtribe Chetostomatina; vesica relatively large, about half as long as sclerotized portion of glans.  
Female unknown.  DISTRIBUTION  
China (Sichuan).  ETYMOLOGY  
The specific epithet is a noun derived from the Greek ‘melanos’,meaning dark, and ‘gaster’, meaning belly, referring to the dark abdomen.
description: Published as part of Han, Ho-Yeon & Chen, Xiao-Lin, 2015, Phylogeny of the genus Paramyiolia Shiraki (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetini) with descriptions of five Chinese species, pp. 86 in Florida Entomologist 98 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.1653/024.098.0115, http://zenodo.org/record/12769448