Frutillaria richardsi, 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 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.203208
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191621
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5562879B-FFC1-FFC4-EAA4-FB6FB425FEAC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Frutillaria richardsi
status	sp. nov.

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Frutillaria richardsi View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs. 40–42 View FIGURES 40 – 46 , 113 View FIGURES 108 – 115 )

Description. Length N/A (head + thorax 1.0–1.2 mm)

Occiput brown, face and gena orange, frons intermediately coloured. Frons with shiny spots lateral to ocellar triangle. Scape and first flagellomere orange, pedicel dark brown. Clypeus and prementum orange.

Thorax black, postalar callus and scutellum reddish, wing rudiment brown. Mesoscutum and scutellum covered with microtomentum. Anepisternum mostly shiny, dorsal and posterior margins with microtomentum. Katepisternum with a large shiny patch behind fore coxa extending posteriorly as a triangle to near bristle, narrowly separated from posterior shiny patch by a band of microtomentum. Meron and metapleuron shiny with the exception of a stripe of microtomentum between posterior thoracic spiracle and base of hind coxa. Laterotergite mostly shiny.

Legs black, fore coxa dark reddish brown, trochanters, joints, and tarsi orange. Fore femur with a shiny spot posteriorly. Mid femur with 2 anterior bristles.

Male abdomen ( Figs. 40–42 View FIGURES 40 – 46 ): Syntergite 1+2 covered with microtomentum. Surstylus with fairly broad inner arm bearing a jagged ridge along apical part, outer corner broadly produced. Postgonite bilobed, both lobes long and pointed. Epiphallus not clearly developed, preepiphallus long and narrow. Distiphallus with lateral arms developed, bifid apically. Ventrals discs triangular in side view with a clear flap apically; ventral sacs not apparent.

Type material. Holotype 3: CHILE: Los Lagos: Puyehue Natl. Pk., Anticura , Salto Los Novios, 40° 39.74’S 72° 08.81’ W, 450 m, 3–4 Dec 2008, flood debris, dung pans, J.H. Kits & S.A. Marshall ( MNNC). Paratypes: Puyehue Natl. Pk., Anticura , 4.1 km W, 270 m, Valdivian rainforest, 19–25 Dec 1982, A. Newton & M. Thayer (1 3, DEBU); Los Ríos: Las Trancas, 30 km W La Unión, Nothofagus , 7–11 Feb 1988, L. Masner (1 3, CNCI).

Comments. This species is named in honour of O.W. Richards, who published prolifically on Sphaeroceridae , and particularly contributed to our knowledge of the flightless species of the family.