Prosciara paucispina Shi & Huang, sp. nov.

(Figs. 8, 23 C, 24)

Specimens examined. Holotype, male. China, Yunnan province, Yingjiang, Tongbiguan, Jinshan– Liaowangtashan, light trap, 24°37.678ʹN, 97°37.901ʹE, 19.V.2009, Su-Jiong Zhang [SM00595].

Description (Male). Color. Head dark brown; antenna bicolored, flagellomeres brown, scape and pedicel yellow; abdomen and hypopygium yellowish-brown; palpus, thorax and legs yellow; wing fumose. Head (Fig. 8 C, D). Eye bridge with 3 rows of facets. Prefrons with 12 setae. Basal segment of palpus with 5 setae; 2nd segment with 12 setae; 3rd segment with 13 setae. Length/width of 4th flagellomere: 2.95. Thorax. Anterior pronotum with 5 setae, episternum 1 with 9 setae. Wings. Wing length 3.50 mm, width/length: 0.35. c/w: 0.38. R1/R: 0.91. r-m bare, stM with 2 setae, M1 and M2 with numerous setae, Cu1 with numerous setae and Cu2 bare. Legs. Foretibia with a comb of 11 setae (Fig. 8 E). Length of spur/width of foretibia 2.22. Length of femur/length of metatarsus: foreleg 0.92. Length of metatarsus/length of tibia: foreleg 0.67, hind leg 0.53. Length of hind tibia/length of thorax 2.67. Foretibia with 2 dorsal, 3 ventral, 2 prolateral and 3 retrolateral spinose setae. Midtibia with 2 dorsal spinose setae. Hypopygium (Fig. 8 A, B). Sternite 10 with 1 seta on each half.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Fig. 24).

Remarks. By its setose M and Cu1, and the form of the hypopygium, the new species is similar to P. Parallela Vilkamaa & Hippa, 1996. But the two species may be distinguished by three megasetae on a slender dosal lobe on the gonostylus, and a much longer tegmen with weak medial shoulders in P. paucispina, while four megasetae on a wide dorsal lobe on the gonostylus, and a short tegmen in P. parallela .

Etymology. This species is named after its few megasetae, only three ones on the dorsal lobe on the gonostylus, from the Latin adjective paucispinus, meaning few megasetae.