Lasiambia, Enderlein, 1936

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A. & Deeming, John C., 2020, An overview of the Chloropidae (Diptera) of Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 4791 (1), pp. 1-71 : 24-25

Lasiambia sp.

( Figs 22 a, b )

Specimens examined. 1♂, Jazan, Fifa, Al-Tatweer Centre, 5–26.i.2014, Malaise trap, H.A. Dawah ( CERS) .

Remarks. This is probably a new species of since it does not agree with any of the European, Asian or African species. It is a small (less than 2mm long) species, shiny black with no evident dusting and with black setae, yellow on antenna with the exception of a diffuse dark apical marking on postpedicel, on palpus, facial carina, fore coxa, all trochanters and on all but fore leg on knees, apices of tibiae and on tarsi, on halteres, on wing veins, dorsally on tergites 1+2 and on sternites; epistoma whitish grey, in stark contrast to face and clypeus; gena broad; facial carina very strong; head setae short, the ocellars reclinate; vibrissal angle rounded; gena at fore margin slightly less than ¼ of eye height, becoming twice as wide at hind margin of eye; palpus short, not projecting.

Figures

FIGURE 22 a, b. Lasiambia sp. Female, (a) from above, (b) in profile.