Frutillaria, Kits, Joel H. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011

Kits, Joel H. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2011, A revision of Frutillaria Richards and Penola Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Archiborborinae), Zootaxa 2863, pp. 1-34 : 28-29

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.203208
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191633
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5562879B-FFC9-FFCC-EAA4-F986B2CEFE1C
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Frutillaria
status	sp. nov.

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Frutillaria View in CoL n. sp. B

Description. Length: 1.9 mm (head + thorax 1.0 mm)

Head dark brown. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and pedicel brown, first flagellomere orange. Clypeus and prementum brown.

Thorax black, postalar callus and scutellum reddish. Wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum entirely covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly covered in microtomentum, with a shiny bare patch medially on ventral 1/3. Katepisternum with shiny patch behind coxa extending slightly toward bristle. Meron with a narrow shiny band immediately behind katepisternum, metapleuron entirely covered with microtomentum, laterotergite mostly microtomentose with a small shiny spot ventrally.

Legs black, joints, trochanters, and tarsi orange, fore coxa reddish brown. Mid femur with 3–4 anterior bristles.

Male unknown.

Female abdomen ( Figs. 99, 100, 103 View FIGURES 95 – 103 ): Tergites 1–6 and sternites 2–6 covered in microtomentum, hind margins narrowly shiny. Tergites 7–8 and sternite 7 mostly shiny, with microtomentum along posterior margins. Tergite 8 divided medially; epiproct U-shaped with long anterior arms. Cerci covered with microtrichia dorsally. Sternite 8 with large subrectangular sclerites, hypoproct with a medial sclerotized patch. Spermathecae with short basal and apical mushroom-shaped invaginations, basal annulated, apical smooth.

Material examined. CHILE: Araucanía: Contulmo Natur. Mon., Sendero Lemu Mau, 38°00'44"S 073°11'08"W, 410 m, Nothofagus obliqua -Eucryphia cordifolia ++ w/ fern & bamboo understory, FMHD #2002- 0 63, berlese, leaf & log litter, 8 Dec 2002, A.F. Newton & M.K. Thayer (2 Ƥ, FMNH).

Comments. This species is similar to F. triangularis both in the extent of microtomentum on the thorax and abdomen and in the shape of the spermathecae.