Leucophenga fuscivena Huang & Chen, 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Jia
name: Chen, Hongwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Leucophenga
Leucophenga fuscivena

description: Leucophenga fuscivena sp. nov.
(Figs. 2 C, 3I, 3J, 4A, 4B, 5G–I, 8)
Diagnosis. This species is mostly similar to L. longipenis sp. nov. in having the scutellum laterally dark brown in male (Figs. 3 I, 4C), and in the color patterns of abdominal tergites in female (Fig. 5 I, K, L), but can be distinguished from the latter by the color patterns of abdominal tergites in male (Fig. 5 G, H), and having the aedeagus dorsolaterally with a thin process and distolaterally with an acute process (Fig. 8 D); see lower that species.
Description. Ocellar triangle brownish, with ca. 0–3 setae above ocellar setae. Frons yellowish in male, brown in female. Pedicel yellowish in male, yellow in female; first flagellomere yellowish in male, yellow in female. Clypeus yellow medially, brownish laterally. Palpus brownish. Mesonotum yellow (Figs. 3 I, 4A). Postpronotal lobe yellow (Figs. 3 J, 4B). Acrostichal setulae in ca. 8–10 irregular rows (Figs. 3 I, 4A). Scutellum yellowish, brownish anteriorly in male (Fig. 3 I), brownish yellow, black laterally and yellowish at tip in female (Fig. 4 A). Pleura, katepisternum and meron yellowish to yellow (Figs. 3 J, 4B). Wing (Fig. 2 C): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with ca. 5–7 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Abdominal tergites yellowish, only 3rd to 5th tergites with brownish to black patches in male (Fig. 5 G, H); only 2nd to 5th abdominal tergites with black patches in female (Fig. 5 I). Male terminalia: Epandrium pubescent near posterior and ventral margin, with ca. 8 setae near posterior margin and ventral corner per side (Fig. 8 A). Paramere narrowed basally and apically, with ca. 4 sensilla distally (Fig. 8 C).
Measurements. BL = 3.00 mm in holotype (range in 3Ƌ and 1♀ paratypes: 2.73–2.87 mm in Ƌ, 2.80 mm in ♀), THL = 1.47 mm (1.33–1.43 mm in Ƌ, 1.40 mm in ♀), WL = 2.57 mm (2.23–2.47 mm in Ƌ, 2.33 mm in ♀), WW = 1.23 mm (1.07–1.13 mm in Ƌ, 1.03 mm in ♀), arb = 6/3 (6–7/3), avd = 0.87 (0.81–0.88), adf = 2.50 (2.29– 2.83), flw = 2.17 (2.00–2.67), FW/HW = 0.26 (0.27–0.32), ch/o = 0.02 (0.02), prorb = 0.65 (0.38–0.70), rcorb = 0.80 (0.68–0.80), vb = 0.33 (0.36–0.45), dcl = 0.50 (0.53–0.63), presctl = 0.61 (0.53–0.56), sctl = 1.17 (1.15–1.19), sterno = 0.82 (0.83–0.91), orbito = 1.13 (1.00–1.33), dcp = 0.29 (0.23–0.36), sctlp = 1.00 (0.86–1.00), C = 1.88 (1.63–2.00), 4c = 1.67 (1.43–1.82), 4v = 2.67 (2.21–2.82), 5x = 1.62 (1.43–1.83), ac = 3.08 (2.80–3.43), M = 0.88 (0.69–0.92), C3F = 0.75 (0.74–0.79).
Type specimens. Holotype Ƌ (SCAU, No. 128787), CHINA: Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, 780m, 17.iv.2007, ex tussock, HW Chen. Paratypes: CHINA: 2Ƌ (SCAU, Nos 128788, 89), same data as holotype; 1Ƌ, 1♀ (SCAU, Nos 128790, 91), Mengka, Ximeng, Yunnan, 22°44'N, 99°27'E, 1880m, 3.iv.2011, ex tussocks, JM Lu.
Distribution. China (Yunnan).
Etymology. A combination of the Latin words “ fuscus ” (= brown) + “ vena ” (= vein), referring to the wing brown on median part of R1.
description: Published as part of Huang, Jia & Chen, Hongwei, 2016, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part VI: the argentata species group from the East Asia, with morphological and molecular evidence, pp. 207-227 in Zootaxa 4161 (2) on pages 219-220, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/264548