Dentifibula spinosa (Grover)

Gagné, Raymond J. & Bertone, Matthew A., 2022, Redescription of Dentifibula viburni (Felt) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and review of the genus, Zootaxa 5175 (5), pp. 583-592 : 591

Dentifibula spinosa (Grover)

Muirodiplosis spinosa Grover 1965: 112 , holotype in P. Grover Collection, Allahabad, India or Cecidological Society of India, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.

Dentifibula spinosa: Gagné 1973a: 500 (new combination).

The male holotype and a female paratype were caught at a light in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The male hypoproct is convex apically, the apical setae not shown; the gonocoxite has a sensory peg at its narrowed apex; the gonostylus is generally evenly cylindrical except for a unique, angular projection that issues abruptly from its basal half; and a slightly sinuate aedeagus that is shorter than the gonocoxites. The female is evidently not a Dentifibula . Its cerci lack the field of ventral, crowded, short sensoria characteristic of this genus and Lestodiplosis . Additionally, flagellomere necks are no more than half as long as the nodes, in contrast to being nearly as long in known female Dentifibula spp.