Leucophenga spinifera Okada 1987
Creators: name: Huang, Jia
name: Wang, Yalian
name: O'Grady, Patrick Michael
name: Su, Yirui
name: Chen, Hongwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Leucophenga
Leucophenga spinifera

description: <i>Leucophenga spinifera</i> Okada, 1987 (Figs. 2E, 5M–O, 9G, 9H, 13I, 13J, 21) <i>Leucophenga spinifera</i> Okada, 1987: 92. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species strongly resembles <i>L</i>. <i>varinervis</i> in the colour patterns of abdominal tergites in both male (Fig. 9G, I) and female (Fig. 9H, J), and the shape of paramere (Figs. 21C, 22C), but can be distinguished from the latter in having the postocellar distinct (Fig. 5M); aedeagus apically hook-shaped, laterally mostly covered by its long process (Fig. 21D); see below for that species. <b>Description.</b> Ocellar triangle dark brown, with ca. 2 or 3 setae above ocellar setae. Frons brownish (Fig. 5M). Pedicel brownish yellow; first flagellomere yellow (Fig. 5M). Clypeus entirely brown. Palpus brownish yellow (Fig. 5M). Mesonotum brownish yellow, usually brownish to brown in front of scutellum (Fig. 5N). Postpronotal lobe yellow (Fig. 5O). Acrostichal setulae in ca. 12–14 irregular rows (Fig. 5N). Scutellum brownish yellow to dark brown, black laterally, yellow at tip (Fig. 5N). Pleura with a brown to dark brown, longitudinal stripe above (Fig. 5O). Katepisternum and mesopleuron mostly yellow (Fig. 5O). Wing (Fig. 2E): nearly hyaline; costal vein between R 2+3 and R 4+5 distally with ca. 4–6 peg-like spinules on ventral surface; R 4+5 and M 1 slightly divergent distally; halter mostly yellowish, with a brownish patch at knob (Fig. 5N). Abdominal tergites dark brown, 2nd tergite yellow to brownish medially and laterally, 3rd tergite mostly yellow except for lateral region, setigerous laterally and on posterior margin in males (Fig. 9G), 3rd tergite yellow anteriorly in females (Fig. 9H), 4th tergite yellow anteriorly. Male terminalia: Epandrium lacking pubescence, with ca. 7 setae near posterior and ventral margins per side (Fig. 21A). Cercus lacking pubescence (Fig. 21A). Surstylus pubescent (Fig. 21A). Hypandrium with 1 sensillum (Fig. 21B). Paramere narrow basally, pubescent medially, with ca. 5 sensilla distally (Fig. 21C). <b>Measurements and indices.</b> BL = 2.44–3.33 mm in 5&amp;male;, 2.61–2.73 mm in 5&amp;female;, ThL = 1.11–1.60 mm in &amp;male;, 1.38–1.46 mm in &amp;female;, WL = 2.00– 2.89 mm in &amp;male;, 2.42–2.58 mm in &amp;female;, WW = 0.89–1.33 mm in &amp;male;, 1.07–1.13 mm in &amp;female;, arb = 5–8/2–4, avd = 0.50–0.86, adf = 1.33–2.52, flw = 1.67–2.52, FW/HW = 0.20–0.38, ch/o = 0.04–0.05, prorb = 0.24–0.70, rcorb = 0.50–0.73, vb = 0.25–0.75, dcl = 0.36–0.45, presctl = 0.42–0.73, sctl = 1.11–1.83, sterno = 0.50–0.75, orbito = 1.25–1.89, dcp = 0.18–0.33, sctlp = 0.71–1.13, C = 2.07–2.60, 4c = 0.92–1.15, 4v = 1.26– 1.60, 5x = 0.67–1.00, ac = 1.33–2.17, M = 0.27–0.40, C3F = 0.64–0.73. <b>Specimens examined.</b> CHINA: 3&amp;male; (SCAU, Nos 128406–08), Wuyishan, on the boundary between Jiangxi and Fujian, 27°32'N, 117°24'E, alt. 1000m, 15–19.viii.2001, ex tussocks, HW Chen; 2&amp;male; (SCAU, Nos 128422, 23), Shuili, Nantou, Taiwan, 23°47'N, 120°51'E, alt. 366m, 28.x.2012, ex tree trunks, HW Chen; 1&amp;male; (SCAU, No. 128424), Wulu, Taitung, Taiwan, 23°10'N, 121°02'E, alt. 740m, 28.x.2012, ex tussock, HW Chen; 1 &amp;male; (SCAU, No. 128515), Cenwanglaoshan, Tianlin, Guangxi, 24°28'N, 106°23'E, alt. 1134m, 29.vii.2016, ex tussock, L Gong; 4&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 128516–20), Xincheng, Yingjiang, Yunnan, 24°47'N, 98°11'E, alt. 963m, 18.viii.2016, ex tussocks, HW Chen, YQ Liu; 1&amp;male; (SCAU, No. 128521), Husa, Longchuan, Yunnan, 24°28'N, 97°45'E, alt. 1227m, 21.viii.2016, ex tussock, L Gong; 1&amp;male; (SCAU, No. 128522), Nanling, Lancang, Yunnan, 22°48'N, 99°55'E, alt. 1867m, 12.viii.2016, ex tree trunk, HW Chen; 15&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 128392–401, 128413–19), Yixiang, Pu'er, Yunnan, 22°47'N, 101°02'E, alt. 1200m, 18.ix.2007, 2.x.2011, 12.v.2012, 12.xii.2012, 28.v.2015, ex tussocks, HW Chen, JJ Gao; 3&amp;male; (SCAU, Nos 128409–11), Muyiji Park, Ximeng, Yunnan, 22°37'N, 99°36'E, alt. 1103m, 2.iv.2011, 29.iv.2016, ex tussocks, YQ Liu, JM Lu, YR Su, YL Wang; 2&amp;male; (SCAU, Nos 128523, 24), Guoqing, Jiangcheng, Yunnan, 22°31'N, 101°52'E, alt. 1105m, 5.viii.2016, ex tussock, YQ Liu; 4&amp;male; (SCAU, Nos 128402– 05), Hesong, Menghai, Yunnan, 21°50'N, 100°06'E, alt. 1700m, 2–9.iv.2011, ex tussocks, JM Lu, ZF Shao, SJ Yan; 1&amp;male; (SCAU, No. 128525), Menghun, Menghai, Yunnan, 21°48'N, 100°31'E, alt. 1634m, 10.viii.2016, ex tussock, HW Chen; 1&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 128412, 128425, 128426), Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°41'N, 101°25'E, alt. 700m, 17.iv.2007, 12.iv.2010, ex tussocks, HW Chen, L Wang; 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 128752, 53), Guanlei, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°38'N, 101°10'E, alt. 562m, 20.iv.2016, ex tree trunks, YQ Liu, YL Wang; 2&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 128420, 21), Tongmai, Bomi, Xizang, 30°06'N, 95°05'E, alt. 2000m, 12.x.2010, ex tree trunk, YR Su. <b>Distribution.</b> China (Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Xizang), Nepal (Taplejung).
description: Published as part of <i>Huang, Jia, Wang, Yalian, O'Grady, Patrick Michael, Su, Yirui &amp; Chen, Hongwei, 2018, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part VIII: twenty-one species from the Oriental region, with morphological and molecular evidence, pp. 1-70 in Zootaxa 4503 (1)</i> on pages 35-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5297894
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