Leucophenga subpollinosa
Creators: name: Huang, Jia
name: Su, Yirui
name: Chen, Hongwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Leucophenga
Leucophenga subpollinosa

description: Leucophenga subpollinosa (de Meijere, 19 14)
(Figs. 2 E, 3I, 3J, 8B)
Drosophila subpollinosa de Meijere, 1914: 263.
Leucophenga subpollinosa Duda: 1923: 27; 1924a: 186; 1924b: 237; 1926: 52; 1939: 42; Okada, 1956: 30; Wheeler & Takada, 1964: 229; Okada, 1965: 327; 1966: 21; Bächli, 1971: 58; Lin & Wheeler, 1972: 252; Vaidya & Godbole, 1976: 86; Bock, 1979: 17; Okada, 1987: 678.
Leucophenga minuta Malloch, 1927: 2.
Diagnosis. This species differs from the other species of the subpollinosa group by having the wing slightly fuscous at tip of R4+5 (Fig. 2 E), the halter yellow at base and stem, mostly dark brown at knob (Fig. 3 I, J), and the mid and hindleg lacking dark colored on knees.
The aforementioned characters of wing (Fig. 2 E) and halter (Fig. 3 I, J) are consistent with the latest and most relevant descriptions about L. subpollinosa (from Taiwan, China in Lin & Wheeler 1972; from Thailand in Okada 1987), which are unique in the subpollinosa group. Therefore, the only female specimen was identified as L. subpollinosa to avoid further confusion.
Description. Ocellar with ca. 2 setae above ocellar setae. Frons brownish yellow. Pedicel brownish yellow; first flagellomere yellow. Clypeus brownish yellow. Palpus brownish yellow. Mesonotum brownish yellow, with four brownish, longitudinal stripes submedially and laterally (Fig. 3 I). Postpronotal brownish yellow (Fig. 3 J). Acrostichal setulae in ca. 8–10 irregular rows (Fig. 3 I). Scutellum brown, brownish yellow at tip (Fig. 3 I). Pleura with a brown, longitudinal stripe above (Fig. 3 J). Katepisternum and meron yellow (Fig. 3 J). Wing (Fig. 2 E): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with ca. 3–4 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Abdominal tergites dark brown (Fig. 8 B), 2nd tergite with two pairs of yellow patches submedially and sublaterally.
Measurements. BL = 2.80 mm, THL = 1.00 mm, WL = 2.07 mm, WW = 0.90 mm, arb = 6/3, avd = 1.09, adf = 2.00, flw = 2.00, FW/HW = 0.42, ch/o = 0.06, prorb = damaged, rcorb = damaged, vb = 0.80, dcl = damaged, presctl = 0.57, sctl = damaged, sterno = damaged, orbito = 2.00, dcp = 0.27, sctlp = 1.09, C = 2.06, 4c = 1.38, 4v = 2.54, 5x = 1.70, ac = 1.80, M = 0.65, C3F = 0.92.
Specimen examined. CHINA: 1♀ (SCAU, No. 128963), Maolin, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 22°53'N, 120°40'E, 300m, 3.vi.2011, ex tussock, XY Liu.
Distribution. China (Taiwan), Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Is.), India, Nepal (Birganj), Vietnam, Thailand (Saraburi), Palau, Micronesia (Caroline Is.), Borneo, Philippines (Luzon), Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales), Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda.
description: Published as part of Huang, Jia, Su, Yirui & Chen, Hongwei, 2017, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part VII: the subpollinosa species group from China, with morphological and molecular evidence, pp. 201-245 in Zootaxa 4247 (3) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/438516