Metopina spriggsi, Disney, Henry L., 2008

Disney, Henry L., 2008, Review of Oriental Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 1937, pp. 23-38 : 34-36

Metopina spriggsi sp. nov.

(Fig. 29)

Female. Frons and top of thorax brown. Between the SAs and the anterior ocellus with only a pair of antials, FIGURES 27–29. Metopina females, abdominal tergites: (27) M. sagittata T5 and T6; (28) M. sagittata T3 and T4; (29) M. spriggsi T5 and T6. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

higher on frons than upper SAs, and a pair of POs. Postpedicels subglobose, light brown, about half as wide as height of eye and without SPS vesicles. Palps pale straw yellow, almost 0.7x as wide as postpedicel, with 3 longer and 3 shorter bristles and about twice as many hairs. Labrum straw yellow. Labella paler. Scutellum with an inner pair of long bristles and an outer pair of hairs (subequal to those in middle of scutum). Abdominal tergites brown with T5 and T6 as Fig. 29. Venter brownish grey with numerous hairs below segments 3–6 and on flanks of at rear of 5 and on 6. Cerci almost colourless and about twice as long as greatest breadth. Legs pale straw yellow but hind femora are lightly tinged brown, especially dorsally and on apical third, and hind tibiae also so tinged but less so. Wing 1.03 mm long. Costal index 0.56. Costal ratios 0.51: 1. Thick veins pale yellowish grey. 4–6 pale grey and 7 not evident. Membrane very lightly tinged grey.

Material. Holotype female, Indonesia, Sulawesi-Utara, Dumoga irrigation project, Toraut, rice paddy, Malaise trap, 10–19 August 1985, A. Kirk-Spriggs (National Museum of Wales, 19-92).

Etymology. Named after the collector of the holotype.