Schlingeriella irwini, Gillung, Jessica P. & Winterton, Shaun L., 2011

Gillung, Jessica P. & Winterton, Shaun L., 2011, New genera of philopotine spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to living and fossil genera, ZooKeys 127, pp. 15-27 : 22

Schlingeriella irwini sp. n.

Genbank accessions.

AY144402.1, AY140881.1, AF539888.1

Type material.

Holotype male, New Caledonia: Riviere Bleue, refuse area, 700', 28.xi.1992 E. & M. Schlinger, at Scaveola flower, prey of green crab spider [-22.112, 166.677] (MNHN) (EIS013911).

Paratypes.

New Caledonia: 3 males, 1 female, Riviere Bleue, same data as holotype (CAS, EIS013912, 013913) (CSCA, 013914, 013915); male, Riviere Bleue, 600', 19.6 km on Riviere Bleue Road. M.T., 16-17.xi.1992, E. & M. Schlinger coll. (EIS013910); female, Riviere Bleue, 700', Malaise, 6-16.xi.1992, E. & M. Schlinger, D. Webb; 1 male, 1 female [abdomen only], Mt. Nihgua, Nov. 2000, E. I. Schlinger & L. J. Boutin [voucher specimens from Winterton et al. (2007)] (EIS007431, male; EIS011170, female) (CAS); 1 female, Col d’Amieu Forestry Camp, 450m 17-18.x.1978, J. S. Dugdale, Malaise trap [-21.576, 165.740] (EIS013909) (CAS); 1 male, Mt. Ouin, 1100m, 9.xi.2002, C. Burwell & G. Monteith, pyrethrum, trees & logs (-22.016, 166.466) (QM).

Description.

Male with small body size (male body: 2.4 mm) and wing as long as the body (male wing: 2.5 mm), female with medium body size (female body: 4.4 mm) and wing longer than the body (female wing: 6.0 mm). Head. Eyes, occiput and ocellar tubercle dark brown, occiput wider than the face; ocelli shining light brown, antennal tubercle shining black, antennae light brown, face black, clypeus shining brown, as long as the antennae, proboscis yellow. Thorax. Uniform dark brown with short whitish pile; coxae yellow, legs dark yellow, femora with darker yellow-brown suffusion, lower calypter and haltere pale yellow, wings hyaline with brown veins. Abdomen. Dark brown; female tergites I-II entirely brown, tergites III-VI with the anterior half yellow and the posterior half brown, sternites brown.

Etymology.

This species is named in honour of Michael E. Irwin.

Key to world genera of living and fossil Philopotinae