Corresponding author: Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte (
Academic editor: Kurt Jordaens
We provide the first record of the genus
Jaume-Schinkel S, Kvifte GM (2022) First record of
The moth fly fauna of the Oriental Region is highly diverse and understudied, with the family
The genus
Here, we describe a new species of the genus
The studied specimens are deposited at the
Measurements were made with an ocular micrometer in a microscope Leitz model Dialux 20, measures in millimeters (mm). Head width was taken at the widest part, approximately above the insertion of antennal scape, whereas the length was taken from the vertex to the lower margin of clypeus; wing length measured from the base of the wing at the start of the costal node to the apex of the wingtip, while the width was taken approximately at an imaginary vertical line crossing the radial and medial forks; palpal proportions consider the length of the first palpal segment as a unit (1.0).
We follow the general terminology proposed by
Males and females with vertex dorsally expanded; males with or without corniculi, females without corniculi; males and females with 4 rows of facets on eye bridge, antennae with 14 barrel-shaped flagellomeres, flagellomeres 1–11 with a pair of simple digitate ascoids, flagellomeres 12–14 reduced in size and without ascoids; wing vein R4 ending slightly before or at the wing apex; males with multiple apical tenacula on hypopods.
This species can be easily differentiated from all the species in
Thailand, Chiang Mai, Doi Pui Mong village (18.8163°N, 98.8831°E).
Measurements in mm (
From Latin
Only known from the type locality.
Of these six characters only five fit with the species described here: gonocoxal apodemes are not fused and are extended anteriorly. The diagnosis presented above reflects this.
Corniculi are present in many genera, including
The characters separating
We are grateful to Jostein Kjærandsen for collecting the type specimen of the new species and to Trond Andersen for making it available for us to study. Per Djursvoll and Steffen Roth kindly facilitated us working together for a month at the University Museum of Bergen. SJS extends his gratitude to Morgane A. Kerdoncuf for opening her flat to him during his stay in Bergen.