Frutillaria calida 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 calida

description: Frutillaria calida sp. n.
(Figs. 13–15, 68, 69, 74, 111)
Description. Length 1.8–2.3 mm (head + thorax 0.8–1.1 mm)
Occiput black, face orange, gena and frons intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and first flagellomere orange, pedicel brown. Clypeus mostly yellow, prementum dark brown.
Thorax black, postalar callus often reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, posterior margin and part of dorsal margin with microtomentum. Katepisternum with a large shiny patch behind fore coxa extending posteriorly as a triangle, almost reaching bristle, narrowly separated from shiny posterior patch. Meron and metapleuron shiny with exception of a stripe of microtomentum between posterior thoracic spiracle and base of hind coxa. Laterotergite mostly shiny.
Legs black, joints narrowly orange, tarsi and trochanters orange, fore coxa dark reddish brown. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.
Male abdomen (Figs. 13–15): Tergites 1–5 mostly covered with microtomentum, margins shiny. Sternites 2–5 shiny. Surstylus with basal and distal parts of similar width; outer corner broadly produced, inner arm broad. Postgonite bilobed, anterior lobe very short and rounded, posterior lobe long and pointed. Basiphallus with very weakly developed epiphallus and preepiphallus, both present as a slight bump on the ventral surface. Distiphallus with lateral arms projecting above central projecting sclerite, narrow, forked at tip with upper fork recurved medially; central projecting sclerite ovoid with paired clear wings dorsally at tip; ventroapical discs subtriangular in side view, appearing pointed apically; ventral sacs not developed.
Female abdomen (Figs. 68, 69, 74): Tergites 1–6 covered with microtomentum, margins narrowly shiny. Tergites 7–8 mostly shiny with some microtomentum posteriorly. Sternites 2–3 shiny, sternite 4 with some microtomentum medially, sternites 5–6 mostly microtomentose, sternite 7 shiny anteriorly, posterior 2/5 microtomentose. Tergite 8 divided longitudinally. Epiproct parallel-sided, moderately developed anterior arms. Sclerites of sternite 8 round; hypoproct not developed. Spermathecae with long, mushroom-shaped apical invagination, short basal invagination, both annulated.
Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Los Lagos: Vicente Pérez Rosales Natl. Pk., Volcán Osorno rd., 41°10’S 72°31'W, 300m, dung pans, 2 Dec 2008, J.H. Kits & S.A. Marshall (MNNC). Paratypes: same data as holotype (14 3, 15 Ƥ, DEBU); same data as holotype but carrion pans (16 3, 12 Ƥ, DEBU); Río San Pedro, 24 km NE of Los Lagos, river bank slope forest, yellow pans, 13–18 Nov 2000, L. Packer (1 Ƥ, DEBU); Puyehue Natl. Pk., Anticura, tr. to Mirador El Puma, stream, 40°40.35’S 72°10.18’W, 400 m, dung pans, 4–5 Dec 2008, J.H. Kits & S.A. Marshall (2 3, 1 Ƥ, DEBU); Puyehue Natl. Pk., Anticura, above guard station, 40°39'53"S 72°10'07"W, 400 m, carrion pans, 3–4 Dec 2008, J.H. Kits & S.A. Marshall (1 Ƥ, DEBU); Chiloé I., Terao, nr. Chonchi, 50 m, 2nd growth forest, Chile Exp., 19–21 Feb 1988, L. Masner (2 Ƥ, DEBU); Chiloé I., Terao, 10 km S Chonchi, 42°43'01"S, 073°38'47"W, 45 m, high meadow, yellow pans, 13–15 Feb 2005 (1 3, DEBU); Chiloé I., 11 km NW Castro, 200 m, ravine second growth forest, FMHD #85-948, carrion trap, 27 Dec 1984 – 1 Feb 1985, S. & J. Peck (7 3, 3 Ƥ, FMNH); Chiloé I., Lago Huillinco, S side, road to Bellavista, 1.3 km S road to Cucao, 42°41'49"S 73°55'53"W, 45 m, Valdivian rainforest w/emergent Saxegothaea conspicua, FMHD #2002-074, berlese, leaf & log litter, 12 Dec 2002, M.K. Thayer & A.F. Newton (1 Ψ, FMNH); Araucanía: 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 (6 3, 3 Ƥ, FMNH); Contulmo Natur. Mon., Sendero Lemu Mau, 38°00'44"S, 073°11'08"W, 410 m, Nothofagus obliqua -Eucryphia cordifolia ++ with fern & bamboo understory, FMHD #2002- 0 63, berlese, leaf & log litter, 8 Dec 2002, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (1 Ƥ, FMNH); as above but FMHD #2002- 0 64, flood debris, small stream, A.F. Newton & A. Y. Solodovnikov (1 Ƥ, FMNH).
Comments. The name of this species refers to the type locality on the slopes of an active volcano. The shape of the postgonite in this species is unique in the genus.
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 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203208