Tomosvaryella brocha 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 brocha

description: Tomosvaryella brocha Motamedinia, Skevington & Földvari sp. nov.
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Figs 18A–E, 114
Diagnosis: This species can be recognized by the hind trochanter having a long keel covered by strong teeth along its edge; elongated surstyli, curved to each other before apex in dorsal view (Fig. 18A); both gonopods extended towards surstyli; phallic guide with 3–4 short dorso- dorsolateral spines in ventral view (Fig. 18B); left surstylus straight in basal two thirds, bent towards sternite in apical fourth in lateral view (Fig. 18D).
Description: MALE: Body length: 2.8 mm. Head. Scape dark, pedicel brown, flagellum light brown, long tapering, brown pollinose. Face silvery pollinose. Frons, upper part shining black; lower part distinctly silver pollinose; eyes touching as long as the length of ocellar triangle. Occiput black, somewhat silvery pollinose. Thorax. Postpronotum pale. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brown pollinose, supra-alar area greyer. Dorsocentral bristles short, dark, longer in frontal half, numerous pale bristles around postpronotum present. Scutellum silvery brown pollinose with 2–4 short scattered bristles. Legs. Mid coxa with 1–2 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 brown), tarsal segments light brown. Hind trochanter with long keel covered by strong teeth along its edge; two ventrobasal spines present on fore and mid femora. Hind femur without ventroapical spines. Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present (short). Hind tarsomeres distinctly flattened (t1–3), 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. 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. Viewed obliquely from front tergites subshiny brown-black, tergite 1 silvery grey. Dispersed short dark bristles on all tergites present. Lateral bristles on first tergite present, 4–6 brown bristles up to as long as ¾ of hind femur’s width at base. Genitalia. Genital capsule in dorsal view: epandrium longer than wide (MLE:MWE = 1.1). Surstyli elongated, straight in basal two thirds, slightly broadened and curved to each other before apex, left surstylus is longer and its apex is wider than right one (Fig. 18A). Genital capsule in ventral view: both gonopods extended towards surstyli, pointed at apex, both gonopods with a distinct projection on inner margin, right one is wider and left one is smaller; phallic guide with 3–4 short dorso- dorsolateral spines; subepandrial sclerite distinct with a fin-shaped projection in its center (Fig. 18B); Genital capsule in lateral view: left surstylus straight in basal two thirds, bent towards sternite in apical fourth, right surstylus gently curved towards sternite (Fig. 18D–E). Ejaculatory apodeme tube-like, bent, with a bulb in its middle (Fig. 18C).
FEMALE: Unknown.
Etymology: From the Latin brochus, with projecting teeth, in reference to the strong teeth on the hind trochanter.
Examined material: HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Tasmania: Launceston, [41°26’S, 147°8’E], JSS8726 (1♂, SAM); PARATYPE: AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Barakula State Forest #302, 26°22’S, 150°58’E, 8.I.2000, J.&A. Skevington, M. Mathieson, JSM 71, CNC483840 (1♂, QM).
Distribution: Australia (Queensland, Tasmania) (Fig. 114).
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 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5599.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14970961