Tomosvaryella wyperfeldensis Motamedinia, Skevington & Foldvari 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Motamedinia, Behnam
name: Földvari, Mihaly
name: Skevington, Jeffrey H.
name: Kelso, Scott
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Tomosvaryella
Tomosvaryella wyperfeldensis

description: Tomosvaryella wyperfeldensis Motamedinia, Skevington & Földvari sp. nov.
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Figs 106A–E, 136, 144E
Diagnosis: This species can be recognized by the hind trochanter having a keel covered by small teeth along its edge (Fig. 144E); hind femur with two rows bristles posteroventrally and posterodorsally (Fig. 144E); surstyli elongated, outer margin sinuous in dorsal view (Fig. 106A); gonopods equal in height, extended towards surstyli (Fig. 106B); phallic guide with 3–4 short dorsolateral spines; both surstyli boot-shaped in lateral view (Fig. 106D–E).
Description: MALE: Body length: 3.0 mm. Head. Scape and pedicel dark; flagellum brown, grey pollinose, long tapering. Face silvery pollinose. Frons, upper part shining black; lower part distinctly silver pollinose; eyes touching for distance equal to 2 times the length of ocellar triangle. Occiput silvery pollinose. Thorax. Postpronotum pale with 3–4 different-sized pale bristles. Mesonotum, postalar callus and scutellum brown pollinose, otherwise shiny, somewhat grey pollinose. Mesonotum with two rows of short, dark dorsocentral bristles, some longer bristles in upper margin behind postpronotum. Scutellum with some scattered short dark bristles. Halter, knob pale, tip brownish, stem dark. Legs. Mid coxa with 3–4 long dark bristles. Trochanters brown, femora black, silvery pollinose posteriorly except shiny hind femur; knees and basal 1/6 of tibiae light brown (tibiae otherwise dark), tarsal segments light brown. Hind trochanter with a keel, covered by small teeth along its edge (Fig. 144E); two ventrobasal spines present on fore and absent on mid femur. Hind femur without ventroapical spines, except 8–10 equally spaced long bristles posteroventrally, longer on distal half, longest up to 2/3 the width of hind tibia at distal end and shorter bristles posterodorsally (Fig. 144E). Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present (short). Hind tarsomeres distinctly flattened, hind metatarsus almost as long as 2–4 combined, dorsally all tarsomeres with erect bristles. Pulvilli shorter than last tarsal segment. Wing. Length: 3.0 mm. Upper side of basal costal cell with one long pale bristle. Fourth costal section 3 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein r-m at middle of discal cell. 2–3 short dark setulae on tegula. Abdomen. First tergite grey pollinose with 6–8 different-sized lateral bristles up to as long as ¾ of hind femur width at base. Genitalia. Genital capsule in dorsal view: epandrium wider than long (MLE:MWE = 0.7). Surstyli elongated, outer margin sinuous, rather widened at base, constricted in the middle, then broadened, as wide as the base, pointed at apex, left surstylus longer than right one (Fig. 106A). Genital capsule in ventral view: gonopods equal in height, extended towards surstyli, pointed at apex, both gonopods with a triangular projection on inner margin; phallic guide with 3–4 short dorsolateral spines; subepandrial sclerite widened in the middle (Fig. 106B); Genital capsule in lateral view: both surstyli boot shaped, straight in basal two thirds, broadened and strongly bent towards sternite in apical third (Fig. 106D–E). Ejaculatory apodeme tube-like, bent, with a bulb in its middle (Fig. 106C).
FEMALE: Unknown.
Etymology: This species is named after the type locality. Six of the species included in this revision were collected in Wyperfeld National Park. This is the third largest park in Victoria and it protects a significant portion of the Victorian mallee diversity.
Examined material: HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Victoria: Wyperfeld NP, East Lookout, 35°36’S, 142°7’E, 22.X.2014, J.H., A.W., & A.M. Skevington, A.D. Young, A. Wyatt, & S. Namek, CNC373426 (1♂, QM).
Distribution: Australia (Victoria) (Fig. 136).
Notes: This is another species that is only known from a single specimen found hilltopping.
description: Published as part of Motamedinia, Behnam, Földvari, Mihaly, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2023, Revision of Australian Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) with description of 100 new species, pp. 1-271 in Zootaxa 5599 (1) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5599.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14970961