Cothornobata bubengensis Li, Marshall & Yang, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Li, Xuankun
name: Marshall, Stephen A.
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Micropezidae
Cothornobata
Cothornobata bubengensis

description: 17. Cothornobata bubengensis sp. nov.
(Fig. 22)
Diagnosis. Fore tibia black, tarsi blackish-brown, except mid basitarsus dark yellow with blackish-brown apex. Wing discal band darker than distal band. Arm of genital fork subparallel basally and incurved apically at right angle; medial tubercle indistinctly convex.
Description. Male. Body length 7.5–9.0 mm, wing length 5.5–6.5 mm.
Head mostly shiny blackish-brown with very thin gray pollinosity. Frontal vitta orange with yellow apex, densely microsetulose, about 3/5 width of frons; lower orbital plate dull pollinose; ocellar triangle black; lunule reddish orange; face pale yellow, densely microsetulose; gena yellow, lightly pollinose; clypeus uniformly blackish. Setae and setulae on head black; postgena with 1 strong seta at lower margin. Antenna brownish-yellow; first flagellomere 1.8X as long as broad; pedicel with 1 ventral apical seta more than half length of first flagellomere; arista nearly 3.6X length of first flagellomere, brown except base yellow, bare. Proboscis brown with brown apex, setulae brown to black. Palpus dark yellow, setulae black.
Thorax mostly blackish-brown with pale gray pollinosity; notum darker and proepisternum black posteroventrally. Scutellum slightly convex, angled dorsally. Setae on thorax black, setulae blackish; katepisternum with 3 to 4 strong setae.
Legs mostly yellow, except hind coxa brown; apical 1/3 of fore femur, apical 1/5 of mid femur and apical 3/20 of hind femur black; fore tibia black, mid and hind tibiae yellow to brown with darker base and apex; tarsi blackish-brown, except mid basitarsus dark yellow with blackish-brown apex.
Wing brown; distal band reached to middle of distal section of M1; discal band much darker than distal band, along M1 and anterior to R4+5, basal to middle of penultimate section of M1. Bm-cu distal to CuA2, A1+CuA2 3X as long as CuA2; distance between apex of R2+3 and R4+5 0.6X as long as M1 beyond dm-cu (Fig. 22 C). Halter pale yellow with brown base.
Abdomen mostly blackish-brown, lightly pollinose; tergites 2–4 pale pale yellow with pale gray pollinosity apically. Pleuron dark gray. Epandrium brownish-yellow. Genital fork brown, with blackish-brown to black setulae; arm subparallel basally and incurved apically at right angle; basal tubercle subquadrate, medial tubercle indistinctly convex, apex slightly inflated (Fig. 22 D). Distiphallus ending in curved filaments, not inflated apically. Pregonite expanded. Postgonite narrow and apically out-turned, without an acute bend (Fig. 22 GH).
Female. Unknown.
Type material. HOLOTYPE: CHINA, Yunnan Province: Xishuangbanna, Mengla, Bubeng Village, 11.v.2009, Xiushuai Yang (♂, CAU). PARATYPE: CHINA, Yunnan Province: Dehong, Ruili, Moli, scenic zone of tropical rain forest; 29.iv.2012, Wenliang Li (2 ♂, CAU); Xishuangbanna, Mengla, Yaoqu, 782 m, 13.v.2009, Tingting Zhang (1 ♂, CAU); Xishuangbanna, Menlun, No. 55, 24.iv.2007, Hui Dong (3 ♂, CAU).
Distribution. Oriental: China (Yunnan).
Remarks. Cothornobata bubengensis is similar to C. vietnamensis sp. nov., but differs as follows: fore tibia black; tarsi mostly blackish-brown, but mid basitarsus dark yellow with blackish-brown apex; wing discal band darker than distal band; arm of genital fork subparallel basally and incurved apically at right angle, medial tubercle indistinctly convex.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality, Bubeng Village.
description: Published as part of Li, Xuankun, Marshall, Stephen A. & Yang, Ding, 2015, A review of the Oriental species of Cothornobata Czerny (Diptera, Micropezidae, Eurybatinae), pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 4006 (2) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/243797