Calyxochaetus anisoaristus Runyon, 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Runyon, Justin B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Calyxochaetus
Calyxochaetus anisoaristus

description: Calyxochaetus anisoaristus sp. nov.
(Figs 26, 39, 64, 71)
Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labeled: “ Ninette, Manitoba / 28-VII-1958 / R.L. Hurley ”; “HOLOTYPE/ Calyxochaetus / anisoaristus / J.B. Runyon [red label]” (CNC) (Fig. 64).
Diagnosis. This species is distinguished from others in the C. cilifemoratus species group by the combination of yellow metepimeron (Fig. 64), arista-like stylus with apical lamella (Fig. 26), and foreleg with tarsomeres 3 and 4 subequal in length (Fig. 39).
Description. Male. Wing length 1.9 mm. Head: Frons brown pruinose. Face silver-white, narrowing to about 2 ommatidia wide at clypeus. Antenna (Fig. 26) brown, scape yellow-brown; scape laterally flattened, subequal to combined length of pedicel and postpedicel; postpedicel oval, about as long as wide; arista-like stylus with apical oblanceolate lamella. Palpus small, oval, brown with whitish apex. Thorax: Pleura brown with thick gray pruinosity; metepimeron wholly yellow. Legs: Foreleg: Coxa, femur and tibia wholly yellow, tarsus brown from near middle of tarsomere 3. Tibia slender, without outstanding setae, with obvious anterior comb-like row of close-set yellow setulae at apex. Tarsomere 1 very short, about as long as wide. Tarsomere 2 with small (less than half tarsomere 3 length), yellow, distally projected anterior seta at apex. Tarsomeres 3 and 4 subequal in length (Fig. 39). Midleg: Coxa yellow, slightly infuscated near base, femur and tibia wholly yellow, tarsus brown from apical third of tarsomere 1. Femur with row of short (longest about half femur width), slender, yellow ventral setae on basal half. Tarsomere 1 with fine sinuous yellow anterior seta at apex. Tarsomere 2 with basal half slightly swollen and bearing 4 fine sinuous yellow anterior setae (basal-most seta shortest). Tarsomere 4 with fine sinuous yellow anterior seta at apex. Tarsomere 5 with 2–3 shorter, fine anterior setae. Tarsomeres decreasing in length apically, tarsomere 1 subequal to combined length of tarsomeres 2–5. Hindleg: Coxa, femur and tibia yellow, tarsus brown from about middle of tarsomere 1. Femur with anteroventral row of slender yellow to yellow-brown setae on apical half, increasing in length distally (longest 1.5X femur width), posterior preapical seta absent. Tibia with ventral row of short, slender setae (less than tibia width) on basal third, with ventral seta near 1/2 and 3/4. Wing: Similar to C. isoaristus (Fig. 60) except as follows: Anal area slightly narrower, evenly rounded basal to apex of M 4, without obvious indentation at apex of M 4. Abdomen: Tergite 1 mostly brown, yellow laterally adjacent to metepimeron. Tergites 2–4 yellow laterally at base, tergites otherwise dark brown. Sternites yellow. Hypopygium: Postgonites with apical lobes rounded, dark brown.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution and seasonal occurrence. Known only from the holotype collected in southern Manitoba (Fig. 71), in late July.
Etymology. The specific epithet is from the Greek aniso (unequal) + aristus, in reference to this species being similar to C. isoaristus but having a lamella on the arista-like stylus.
description: Published as part of Runyon, Justin B., 2024, Revision of the genus Calyxochaetus Bigot (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae), pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 5539 (1) on pages 17-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5539.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14240426