Eloeophila verrucosa Savchenko, 1976

Kato, Daichi, 2021, Taxonomic study of the genus Eloeophila Rondani, 1856 of Japan (Limoniidae Diptera), Zootaxa 4995 (3), pp. 425-451 : 447

Eloeophila verrucosa Savchenko, 1976

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Eloeophila verrucosa Savchenko , in Savchenko and Krivolutskaya, 1976: 60.

Type locality: Kuril Islands , Kunashir Is, near Alekhino .

Eloeophila verrucosa: Nakamura (2014: 13) ; Oosterbroek (2021).

Short description (from original description). General coloration dark brown. Head. Vertex greyish.

Thorax. Without distinct marking. Wing tinged with dark brown, stigma pale brown. Legs with coxa, trochanters and bases of femora dusky yellow. Halter long, pale yellow.

Abdomen. Sternites dirty yellow; male tergite 8 with long rectangular lobe at middle of posterior margin. Male terminalia with gonocoxite bearing three lobes dorsally; each tip of these lobes with tufts of long setae. Outer gonstylus rod-shaped with small claw-shaped lobe at tip. Paramere with mesal-apical lobe blade-shaped, truncated obliquely at tip, about twice as long as wide. Male body length: 5.5 mm. Wing length: 6.0 mm.

Distribution. Kuril Islands (Kunashir Is) ( Fig. 13F ).

Remarks. See remarks in E. tergilobellus sp. nov. for comparison to similar species.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Distributions of Japanese species of Eloeophila. A. E. amamiana (red); E. apicisetula Kato, sp. nov. (blue); B. E. canidorsalis Kato, sp. nov. (red); E. dietziana (blue); C. E. enischnophallus Kato, sp. nov. (red); E. kintaro (blue); E. tergilobellus Kato, sp. nov. (green); D. E. hadrophallus Kato, sp. nov. (red); E. lilliputina (blue); E. persalsa (green); E. E. subaprilina (red); F. E. ussuriana iwatensis (red); E. verrucosa (blue).