Phortica (Phortica) mengda sp. nov.

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Fig. 4

Diagnosis

This species is similar to P. latipenis in the male terminalia, it can be distinguished from the latter species by the paramere; in the new species, paramere black and bifurcated distally, the posterior branch strongly expanded submedially, with one acute projection apically (Fig. 4C) (in P. latupenis: paramere neither black nor expanded in posterior branch; as in Chen et al. 2005, fig. 7C).

Etymology

Toponym, according to the locality of type specimens in the language of the Dai community in Yunnan, China.

Type material

Holotype

CHINA: ♂, Wulaoshan, Lincang, Yunnan, 23°15’ N, 100°11’ E, 2150 m a.s.l., 14 May 2016, Y.Q. Liu leg. (SCAU, No. 124790).

Description

MALE TERMINALIA. Epandrium lacking pubescence anteroventrally, with ca. nine setae on dorsal to posterolateral portion per side (Fig. 4A). Surstylus lacking pubescence, with ca. 12 prensisetae on ventral margin (Fig. 4B). Paramere with three teeth and one sensillum apically in the anterior branch (Fig. 4C). Aedeagal basal bridge tripartite: anterior lobe expanded apically; median lobe with four projections; posterior lobe slender (Fig. 4C).

Measurements

BL = 3.64 mm in holotype, THL = 1.73 mm, WL = 2.93 mm, WW = 1.24 mm, arb = 5/2, adv = 0.75, adf = 1.88, flw = 1.76, FW/HW = 0.51, ch/o = 0.15, prorb = 0.88, rcorb = 0.42, vb = 0.47, dcl = 0.59, presctl = 0.76, sctl = 1.08, sterno = 0.64, orbito = 1.29, dcp = 0.28, sctlp = 1.13, C = 2.09, 4c = 1.54, 4v = 2.86, 5x = 1.06, ac = 2.53, M = 0.68, C3F = 0.71.