Minilimosina (Svarciella) furculisterna ( Deeming, 1969 )

Su, Lixin, Liu, Guangchun & Xu, Jie, 2015, A review of Minilimosina Roháček (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from China, Zootaxa 4007 (1), pp. 1-28 : 18-19

Minilimosina (Svarciella) furculisterna ( Deeming, 1969)

( Figs. 72–77 )

Leptocera (Limosina) furculisterna Deeming, 1969: 70 [male, illustr.]. Type locality: Nepal, Taplejung Distr., between Sangu and Tamrang [5,200 ft]. HT male (BMNH).

Minilimosina (Svarciella) furculisterna .— Roháček, 1983: 31 [generic combination]; Roháček & Marshall, 1988: 247 [redescription, both sexes, phylogenetic notes, illustr.].

Diagnosis. Body colour shining black. 2 pairs of dorsocentral setae. Eye 3.0 times as high as gena. Antennae yellow. Apical scutellar seta 1.5 times as long as scutellum length. Cs2 0.9 times as long as Cs3. First tarsomere of fore leg ( Fig. 72 ) blackish brown, 4 apical tarsomeres white, distinctly paler than yellow mid and hind tarsi, sometimes hind tarsus ( Fig. 73 ) with black tarsomeres 1–2. Tergite 5 desclerotized medially, divided into two sclerites. Male sternite 5 ( Fig. 77 ) with a setose posteromedial lobe flanked by a pair of apically setose lobes, posteromedial lobe with an apical comb-row. Postgonite ( Fig. 76 ) extraordinarily broad.

Materal examined. (LKLSU, in alcohol): 1 male: China, Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmu, Qianmutian, sweep, 1505 m, E 119°25′ 45.23″, N30°20′ 49.56″, 29.Jun.2013, Lixin Su; 2 males: China, Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmu, Qianmutian, sweep, 1409 m, E 119°25′ 51.38″, N 30°20′ 42.99″, 30.Jun.2013, Lixin Su.

Comments. The species is here recorded from China for the first time, being previously only known in Nepal and Japan.

Distribution. Oriental: China (Zhejiang), Nepal; Palaearctic: Japan.

Figures

FIGURES 72 – 77. Minilimosina (Svarciella) furculisterna (Deeming): 72, male fore leg, anterior; 73, male hind leg, anterior; 74, male genitalia, posterior; 75, gonostylus, lateral; 76, aedeagus and associated structures, lateral; 77, male sternite 5, ventral.