Leucophenga kurahashii 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 kurahashii

description: <i>Leucophenga kurahashii</i> Okada, 1987 (Figs. 2B, 5D–F, 9B, 9C, 13C, 13D, 18) <i>Leucophenga kurahashii</i> Okada, 1987: 91. <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species differs from the other species of the genus <i>Leucophenga</i> in having the paramere dorsally and distally pubescent but lacking sensillum (Fig. 18C); aedeagus curved ventrad, anterodorsally expanded, medioventrally with a small, pubescent projection, distoventrally with several serrated processes (Fig. 18D). <b>Description.</b> Ocellar triangle brown, with ca. 2 or 3 setae above ocellar setae. Frons brownish yellow (Fig. 5D). Orb 3 and Orb 2 parallel (Fig. 5D). Pedicel brownish dark yellow; first flagellomere yellowish (Fig. 5D). Clypeus brownish yellow medially and brown laterally. Palpus yellow (Fig. 5D). Mesonotum mostly dark yellow (Fig. 5E). Postpronotal lobe brownish yellow (Fig. 5F). Acrostichal setulae in ca. 12–14 irregular rows (Fig. 5E). Scutellum brownish yellow, brown to dark brown laterally, yellow at tip (Fig. 5E). Pleura, katepisternum, and mesopleuron mostly yellowish to yellow (Fig. 5F). Wing (Fig. 2B): with distinct patterns; costal vein between R 2+3 and R 4+5 distally with ca. 6 or 7 peg-like spinules on ventral surface; R 4+5 and M 1 nearly parallel distally; halter yellow, usually with brownish to brown patches at stem and knob (Fig. 5E). Abdominal tergites dark brown, 2nd tergite yellowish medially and laterally, 3rd tergite nearly entirely yellowish except for sublateral region, setigerous laterally and on posterior margin, 5th tergite with a pair of yellow patches submedially in males (Fig. 9B); 2nd tergite yellow medially and laterally, 3rd to 6th tergites yellow submedially and laterally in females (Fig. 9C). Male terminalia: Epandrium pubescent, with ca. 14 setae near posterior and ventral margins per side (Fig. 18A). Cercus and surstylus pubescent (Fig. 18A). Paramere slender, narrow basally and apically (Fig. 18C). <b>Measurements and indices.</b> BL = 3.00– 3.57 mm in 5&amp;male;, 3.00– 3.73 mm in 5&amp;female;, ThL = 1.60–1.83 mm in &amp;male;, 1.33–1.87 mm in &amp;female;, WL = 2.60–2.97 mm in &amp;male;, 2.33–3.13 mm in &amp;female;, WW = 1.27–1.33 mm in &amp;male;, 1.05–1.43 mm in &amp;female;, arb = 8–11/4–5, avd = 0.88–1.06, adf = 1.81–2.47, flw = 1.73–2.13, FW/HW = 0.33–0.40, ch/o = 0.03–0.04, prorb = 0.52–0.63, rcorb = 0.69–0.81, vb = 0.38–0.50, dcl = 0.42–0.52, presctl = 0.45–0.64, sctl = 1.24–1.41, sterno = 0.67–0.76, orbito = 1.50–2.00, dcp = 0.21–0.26, sctlp = 0.89–1.12, C = 2.04–2.46, 4c = 1.37–1.57, 4v = 1.92–2.38, 5x = 0.74–0.90, ac = 2.18–3.13, M = 0.50–0.60, C3F = 0.82–0.93. <b>Specimens examined.</b> CHINA: 1&amp;female; (SCAU, No. 123243), Mangshan, Yizhang, Hunan, 24°55'N, 112°34'E, alt. 800m, 3.x.2004, ex tussock, HL Cao; 1&amp;female; (SCAU, No. 123235), Nanling, Shaoguan, Guangdong, 24°38'N, 112°40'E, alt. 800m, 6.x.2004, ex tussock, HL Cao; 1&amp;female; (SCAU, No. 123234), Nankunshan, Huizhou, Guangdong, 23°37'N, 113°52'E, alt. 400m, 2.iv.2004, ex tussock, HW Chen; 4&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 123231–33, 128390, 128391, 128505), Yixiang, Pu'er, Yunnan, 22°47'N, 101°02'E, alt. 1200m, 18, 19.ix.2007, 2.x.2011, 18.x.2012, ex tussocks, HW Chen, JJ Gao; 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 123239, 40), Muyiji Park, Ximeng, Yunnan, 22°37'N, 99°36'E, alt. 1100m, 2.iv.2011, ex tussocks, YR Su; 1&amp;female; (SCAU, No. 123236), Hesong, Menghai, Yunnan, 21°50'N, 100°06'E, alt. 1940m, 7.v.2012, ex tussock, HW Chen; 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (SCAU, Nos 123237, 38), Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°41'N, 101°25'E, alt. 900m, 19.iv.2007, ex tree trunks, HW Chen; 1&amp;male; (SCAU, No. 123249), Wangtianshu, Mengla, Yunnan, 21°28'N, 101°38'E, alt. 570m, 23.iv.2007, ex tree trunk, HW Chen. NEPAL: 1&amp;male; (SCAU, No. 123241), Sagarmatha, Siraha, 27°58'N, 86°40'E, alt. 139m, 19.x.2011, ex tussock, SX Ren. <b>Distribution.</b> China (Hunan, Guangdong, Yunnan), Nepal (Siraha), Thailand (Namtok).
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 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4503.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5297894
description: {"references": ["Okada, T. (1987) The Leucophenga proxima Species Group of Southeast Asia and New Guinea (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Kontyu, 55, 90 - 99."]}