Frutillaria anticura 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 anticura

description: Frutillaria anticura sp. n.
(Figs. 7–9, 61, 62, 66, 109)
Description. Length N/A (head + thorax 0.8–1.0 mm)
Occiput black, face orange, gena and frons intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Antenna orange. Clypeus mostly orange, prementum brown.
Thorax black, postalar callus reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, anterior and posterior margins and part of dorsal margin with microtomentum. Katepisternum with a shiny spot behind coxa, not extending 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 dark reddish brown; fore femur very sparsely microtomentose posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.
Male abdomen (Figs. 7–9): Syntergite 1+2 covered with microtomentum, posterior margin shiny. Surstylus with inner arm knobbed at tip, outer corner not projecting. Postgonite bilobed, anterior lobe rounded at tip, posterior lobe pointed. Epiphallus and preepiphallus thin, of similar length. Distiphallus with lateral arm rounded at tip and bearing a preapical medial tooth, not projecting dorsally above central projecting sclerite; central projecting sclerite complex, frilled and ridged, connected to lateral arms dorsally by a translucent membrane, not apparently attached ventrally; ventral sacs not strongly sclerotized.
Female abdomen (Figs. 61, 62, 66): Syntergite 1+2 covered with microtomentum. Sternites 2–4 shiny. Tergite 8 complete, with about 12 setae along posterior margin; mostly shiny, with some microtomentum along posterior margin. Epiproct with parallel sides, very short anterior arms. Cerci without microtrichia dorsally. Spermathecae with basal invagination consisting of a basal sheath of several rings and apical rounded cap; no apical invagination, but variably pointed apically.
Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Los Lagos: Puyehue Natl. Pk., Anticura, tr. to Mirador El Puma, stream, 40°40.35’S 72°10.18’W, 400 m, dung pans, 4–5 Dec 2008, J.H. Kits & S.A. Marshall (MNNC). Paratypes: same data as holotype (1 3, 2 Ƥ, DEBU); Puyehue Natl. Pk., Anticura, 40°39'42"S 72°08'06"W, 460 m, Valdivian rainforest w/large Saxegothaea, FMHD #96-252, berlese, leaf & log litter, 31 Dec 1996, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (1 3, FMNH); Puyehue Natl. Pk., Ruta 215, vic. Laguna Las Mellizas, 40°40'48"S 71°59'24"W, 1000 m, Nothofagus pumilio w/dense bamboo understory, FMHD #2002-089, berlese, leaf & log litter, 19 Dec 2002, A. F. Newton et al. (1 3, 2 Ƥ, FMNH); Puyehue Natl. Pk., Ruta 215, km 4.5 E of Aduana station, 40°40'14"S 72°05'13"W, 580 m, Valdivian rainforest, FMHD #2002-090, M.K. Thayer et al. (1 3, 2 Ƥ, FMNH).
Other material examined. CHILE: Los Lagos: Vicente Pérez Rosales Natl. Pk., SW slope Volcán Osorno, ca. km 11 to La Burbuja, 41°07'54"S 072°32'00"W, 1090 m, low Nothofagus dombeyi w/bamboo & shrub understory, FMHD #2002-080, berlese, leaf & log litter, 15 Dec 2002, A. Y. Solodovnikov (1 Ƥ, FMNH).
Comments. This species is named after the type locality, the Anticura sector of Puyehue National Park. The name should be treated as a noun in apposition.
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 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203208