Homoneura (Homoneura) dagupingensis Gao & Shi 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gao, Xuefeng
name: Shi, Li
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lauxaniidae
Homoneura
Homoneura dagupingensis

description: Homoneura (Homoneura) dagupingensis sp. nov.
(Figs 24−29, 30−34)
Description. MALE. Body length 5.3−5.4 mm, wing length 5.0− 5.1 mm.
Head (Figs 25−26) yellow. Frons as long as wide and parallel–sided, a pair of pale brown stripes extending to ocellar triangle; ocellar setae incomplete. Parafacial with a row of short setulae on apical half of inner margin. gena about 1/8 height of eye. Antenna yellow; 1st flagellomere pale yellow, about 1.4 times longer than high; arista brown except for yellowish base, with longest ray slightly shorter than 1/2 height of 1st flagellomere. Proboscis and palpus yellow.
Thorax (Fig. 27) yellow. Mesonotum with 0+3 dorsocentral setae (anterior dorsocentral setae behind the transversal suture), acrostichal setulae in irregular 6 rows. Legs mostly yellow, all tarsomeres 3−5 brown. Fore femur with 5 posterodorsal setae, 4 posteroventral setae and ctenidium with 12 short setae; fore tibia with 1 long preapical anterodorsal seta and 1 short apicoventral seta. Mid femur with 4 anterior setae and 1 short apicoposterior seta; mid tibia with 1 strong preapical anterodorsal seta and 3 strong apicoventral setae. Hind femur with 1 preapical anterodorsal seta; hind tibia with 1 long preapical anterodorsal seta and 1 short apicoventral seta. Wing (Fig. 29) pale yellow, brown apical spots on R 2+3, R 4+5 and M 1 slightly separated; brown cloud on dm-cu; a brown rectangular median spot on R 4+5 far from brown cloud on crossvein dm-cu; subcostal cell dark brown at apex; 2nd (between R 1 and R 2+3), 3rd (between R 2+3 and R 4+5) and 4th (between R 4+5 and M 1) sections in proportion of 2:1:1.1; r-m before middle of discal cell; ultimate and penultimate sections of M 1 in proportion of 1:1.5; ultimate section of CuA 1 about 1/8 of penultimate. Halter yellow.
Abdomen (Fig. 28) yellow, male tergites 3−6 each with brown posterior margin. Male genitalia (Figs 30−34): Syntergosternite 7+8 circular; epandrium broad and slightly swollen subapically in lateral view; surstylus with a small triangluar process with several setulae in lateral view; hypandrium H-shaped and hypandrial apodeme short; pregonite shorter than postgonite, both of them sharp at apex; phallus with a pair of sharp teeth-like processes at middle in ventral view and small sharp dorsal processes subapically in lateral view; phallapodeme longer than phallus.
FEMALE. Unknown.
Type material. Holotype ♂ (IMAU), CHINA, Shanxi Province, Foping County, Daguping, 1329.2 m, 24. VIII. 2014, Xiumei Lu. Paratype (IMAU): 1♂, data same as holotype.
Distribution. China (Shaanxi).
Remarks. The new species is similar to Homoneura (Homoneura) acutata Yang, Zhu & Hu, 1999 from China (Henan), but the latter has the following features: the mesonotum having acrostichal setulae in 10 rows and the surstylus having sharp apex pointing downwards, and the phallus lacking pairs of teeth-like processes.
Etymology. The new species is named after the collecting locality Daguping.
description: Published as part of Gao, Xuefeng & Shi, Li, 2019, Nine new species of genus Homoneura from Qinling mountains in China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), pp. 401-432 in Zootaxa 4608 (3) on pages 410-411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3770275