Frutillaria contulmo 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 contulmo

description: Frutillaria contulmo sp. n.
(Figs. 23–25, 70, 71, 75, 110)
Description. Length: N/A (head + thorax 0.8–1.0 mm)
Occiput black, face and gena orange, frons intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and first flagellomere orange, pedicel brown. Clypeus and prementum orange.
Thorax black, postalar callus reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, posterior margin and part of dorsal margin with microtomentum; anterior margin with microtomentum in male from Nahuelbuta, shiny in specimens from Contulmo. Katepisternum with shiny spot behind coxa extending posteriorly toward bristle; posterior part of katepisternum, 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 deep reddish brown; fore femur mostly microtomentose posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.
Male abdomen (Figs. 23–25): Inner arm of surstylus broadened at apex, outer corner projecting, fairly narrow. Postgonite with lobes separated, both lobes long and thin. Epiphallus not developed, preepiphallus barely developed. Distiphallus with thin, parallel-sided lateral arm, bearing a large tooth at apex. central projecting sclerite with a large curved sclerite extensive covered with fine ridges. Ventral sclerite not connected to central projecting sclerite.
Female abdomen (Figs. 70, 71, 75): Tergite 7 with a subapical band of microtomentum, tergite 8 and sternite 7 mostly shiny with some microtomentum along posterior margin. Tergite 8 complete, epiproct triangular with short anterior arms. Sclerites of sternite 8 round, comma-shaped. Hypoproct appearing as a pair of lateral spots with a weakly sclerotized medial bar. Spermathecae with basal invagination long, mushroom-shaped, annulated; apical invagination short, subconical, smooth.
Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Araucanía: Contulmo Natur. Mon., Sendero Lemu Mau, 38°00'44"S 073°11'08"W, 410 m, Nothofagus obliqua -Eucryphia cordifolia ++ w/ fern & bamboo understory, FMHD #2002- 0 63, berlese, leaf & log litter, 8 Dec 2002, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (MNNC). Paratype: Nahuelbuta Natl. Pk., 37°48'58"S 73°0'36"W, mature Nothofagus forest, yellow pans, 9–10 Feb 2005, L. Masner (1 3, DEBU).
Other material examined. Same data as holotype (1 Ƥ, FMNH).
Comments. The species name is a noun in apposition referring to the type locality of the species. The female associated with this species is somewhat rubbed and faded; although it seems most likely to belong with the male types, this is difficult to verify on the basis of the few available specimens.
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 pages 14-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203208