Leucophenga pentapunctata Panigrahy & Gupta 1982
Creators: name: Huang, Jia
name: Li, Tong
name: Chen, Hongwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Drosophilidae
Leucophenga
Leucophenga pentapunctata

description: Leucophenga pentapunctata Panigrahy & Gupta, 1982
(Figs 2 G, 6E–H, 10G, 10H, 14A, 14B, 23)
Leucophenga pentapunctata Panigrahy & Gupta, 1982: 487.
Diagnosis. Wing with 5 patches distinctly (Fig. 2 G); all femora with a brownish patch subbasally; hypandrium with a bunch of long pubescence submedially (Fig. 23 B); aedeagus thick, with pubescence distoventrally (Fig. 23 D).
Description. Ocellar triangle brownish yellow, with 3–6 setae above ocellar setae. Frons brownish to yellowish brown. Pedicel yellowish brown; first flagellomere brownish and brown at tip. Clypeus yellowish brown medially and dark brown laterally. Palpus mostly brownish to brown, slightly larger distally in female than in male. Mesonotum brownish yellow to yellowish brown, sometimes with brown longitudinal stripes sublaterally (Fig. 6 E, F). Postpronotal lobe yellow (Fig. 6 G, H). Acrostichal setulae in 10–12 irregular rows (Fig. 6 E, F). Scutellum brown, dark brown laterally and pale at tip (Fig. 6 E, F). Pleura with a brownish to brown, longitudinal stripe above (Fig. 6 G, H). Katepisternum yellow, brown above; mesopleuron yellow, with a brown patch (Fig. 6 G, H). Wing (Fig. 2 G): Costal vein between R2+3 and R4+5 distally with 6–8 peg-like spinules on ventral surface. Abdominal tergites dark brown, with yellow patches (Fig. 10 G, H). Male terminalia: Epandrium nearly entirely pubescent, with 12 setae near posterior margin and ventral corner per side (Fig. 23 A). Paramere broadened, round apically, lacking pubescence, with 6 sensilla mediodorsally and 1 sensillum apically (Fig. 23 C).
Measurements. BL = 3.20–4.47 mm in ♂, 3.60–4.20 mm in ♀ (range in 5♂ and 5♀), THL = 1.67–2.47 mm in ♂, 1.77–2.13 mm in ♀, WL = 2.77–4.07 mm in ♂, 3.23–3.83 mm in ♀, WW = 1.27–1.73 mm in ♂, 1.50–1.78 mm in ♀, arb = 8–12/4–6, avd = 0.76–0.97, adf = 1.76–2.21, flw = 1.65–2.20, FW/HW = 0.33–0.39, ch/o = 0.03–0.05, prorb = 0.53–0.76, rcorb = 0.56–0.80, vb = 0.35–0.50, dcl = 0.40–0.56, presctl = 0.50–0.69, sctl = 1.22–1.36, sterno = 0.72–0.82, orbito = 1.83–2.42, dcp = 0.17–0.27, sctlp = 1.00–1.39, C = 1.57–2.33, 4c = 1.32–1.75, 4v = 1.69–2.09, 5x = 1.09–1.47, ac = 3.05–4.31, M = 0.54–0.64, C3F = 0.84–0.93.
Specimens examined. CHINA: 1♂, 1♀ (SCAU, Nos 123093, 94), Diaoluoshan, Lingshui, Hainan, 18°10'N, 108°52'E, 1000m, 3.xii.2003, ex tussocks, HW Chen; 1♀ (SCAU, No. 123095), Hesong, Menghai, Yunnan, 1900m, 9.iv.2011, ex tree trunk, ZF Shao; 6♂, 1♀ (SCAU, Nos 123096 – 123102), Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan, 900m, 19.iv.2007, ex tree trunks, HW Chen; 2♀ (SCAU, Nos 123103, 04), Wangtianshu, Mengla, Yunnan, 600m, 30.ix.2011, ex tree trunks, HW Chen; 1♂, 4♀ (SCAU, Nos 123105 –09), Yixiang, Puer, Yunnan, 27°12'N, 100°03'E, 1400m, 13.v.2012, ex tree trunks, HW Chen; 1♀ (SCAU, No. 123300), Yixiang, Puer, Yunnan, 1400m, 18.x.2012, ex tree trunk, JJ Gao; 1♂, 1♀ (SCAU, Nos 123110, 11), Beibeng, Motuo, Xizang, 29°14'N, 95°10'E, 780m, 28.ix.2010, ex tree trunks, JJ Gao.
Distribution. China (Hainan, Yunnan, Xizang), India (Orissa).
description: Published as part of Huang, Jia, Li, Tong & Chen, Hongwei, 2014, The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part IV: the ornata species group from the East Asia, with morphological and molecular evidence (II), pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 3893 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287539