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Corresponding author: Wenliang Li ( wenliangli@haust.edu.cn ) Academic editor: Marc De Meyer
© 2020 Wenliang Li, Ling Qi, Ding Yang.
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Li W, Qi L, Yang D (2020) Four new species of the subfamily Homoneurinae (Diptera, Lauxaniidae) from southwestern China. ZooKeys 953: 119-136. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.953.53976
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Four species of Homoneurinae from southwestern China are described as new to science: Cestrotus abdominalis sp. nov., Cestrotus albifacies sp. nov., Phobeticomyia motuoensis sp. nov., and Prosopophorella longa sp. nov. An updated key to the species of the genera Cestrotus, Phobeticomyia, and Prosopophorella recorded in China is presented.
acalyptrate flies, Cestrotus, Phobeticomyia, Prosopophorella, Oriental region, taxonomy
The family Lauxaniidae is a large family of the Acalyptratae. There are more than 170 genera and nearly 2100 described species, distributed worldwide except for Antarctica. The subfamily Homoneurinae of Lauxaniidae was established by Stuckenberg in 1971 (
Among the seven genera of this subfamily in China, Homoneura Van der Wulp, 1891 is the largest, containing more than 200 species;
Southwestern China with a rich biodiversity is located in the Oriental region and includes the Sichuan Basin, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Southern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Western Guangxi-Guangdong Hills. It has obvious karst landforms and river valley landforms, large altitude differences and a complex terrain. It encompasses a variety of high-rainfall climates including subtropical monsoon climates, plateau mountain climates, and tropical rainforest climates. There are more than 50 national and provincial nature reserves, each with complete ecological preservation, high vegetation abundance, and rich humus soils and fungi. These are the reasons why most species of Lauxaniidae are distributed in southwestern China.
In this article, four new species are described from this diverse area of China: Cestrotus abdominalis sp. nov., Cestrotus albifacies sp. nov., Phobeticomyia motuoensis sp. nov., and Prosopophorella longa sp. nov. An updated key to the species of genus Cestrotus, Phobeticomyia, and Prosopophorella in China, which is based on the keys of
Genitalia preparations were made by removing and macerating the apical portion of the abdomen in cold saturated NaOH for 6 h, then rinsing and neutralizing them for dissection and study. After examination in glycerin, they were transferred to fresh glycerin and stored in a microvial on a pin below the specimen or moved to an ethanol tube together with the alcohol specimens. Specimens examined were deposited in the Entomological Museum of China Agricultural University, Beijing, China (
The general terminology follows
1 | Face shining with distinct spherical protuberance, at least half of base dark brown | genus Phobeticomyia (Kertész, 1915) 2 |
– | Face with a median protuberance on ventral margin or slight convex on the middle or convex and with complex bands | 6 |
2 | Wing with 1-2 narrow hyaline subapical bands (constricted at middle in some species) in m1 cell; surstylus not as follows | 3 |
– | Wing without narrow hyaline subapical stripe in m1 cell; surstylus with one small triangular apical process and one curved inner process with apical tooth | Ph . spinosa (Sasakawa, 1987) |
3 | Wing (Fig. |
Ph. motuoensis sp. nov. |
– | Wing with one narrow hyaline subapical band (constricted at middle in some species) in m1 cell; male genitalia not as above | 4 |
4 | Wing with a hyaline spot between dm-cu and subapical band in m1 cell, and with a round median spot near CuA1 in cua1 cell | 5 |
– | Wing without hyaline spot between dm-cu and subapical stripe in m1 cell, and no hyaline round median spot near CuA1 in cua1 cell | Ph . uncinata (Shi et al., 2009) |
5 | Antenna scape and pedicel yellow; surstylus with a small digitiform subapical process and a curved claviform inner process; phallus with a pair of subapical lateral processes and a hooked apical process in ventral view | Ph . digitiformis (Shi et al., 2009) |
– | Antenna scape and pedicel black; surstylus with a broad apical process, a small bulb-like subapical process and a narrow long curved inner process; phallus with a pair of median teeth and a pair of acuate triangular apical processes in ventral view | Ph . lunifera (de Meijere, 1910) |
6 | Frons distinctly longitudinally sunken in middle, with one velvet black median spot | genus Prosopophorella (de Meijere, 1917) 7 |
– | Frons raised, with velvet rectangular spot and pruinescence | genus Cestrotus (Loew, 1862) 9 |
7 | Palpus blackish brown; all femora brown except yellow apically; wing and male genitalia not as follows | 8 |
– | Palpus yellow or brownish yellow; mid and hind femora with one brown ventral band at basal 2/3; wing with brown cloud over r-m separating from one brown spot over R1 in subcostal cell and brown spots surrounding dm-cu; male genitalia: syntergosternite with short setulae and a pair of ventral processes, epandrium with two pairs of long dorsal setae in ventral view | Pr . yoshiyasui (Sasakawa, 2001) |
8 | Mesonotum with two wide black median stripes, a pair of short black lateral bands behind suture and a narrow grayish white pruinescent band along the rows of dorsocentral setae; tarsi 3–5 pale brown; syntergosternite without ventral process; halter pale yellow | Pr . zhuae (Shi & Yang, 2009) |
– | Mesonotum with one gray pruinescent band and a pair of gray pruinescent bands along the rows of dorsocentral setae; tarsi 3–5 yellow; syntergosternite with a pair of ventral processes; halter white | Pr . longa sp. nov. |
9 | Face with one brown median longitudinal band | 15 |
– | Face without brown median bands | 10 |
10 | Scutellum yellow or with yellow pruinescence, without brown spots | 11 |
– | Scutellum with gray or yellow pruinescence, with brown spots basally | 12 |
11 | Mesonotum with black trapeziform spot posteriorly; wing 2 times longer than wide | C . apicalis (Hendel, 1920) |
– | Mesonotum with two coterminous yellow trapeziform spots present at posterior 1/3, the trapeziform spots basally with two coterminous round brown spots extending to the base of scutellum; wing 2.5 times longer than wide | C . abdominalis sp. nov. |
12 | Scutellum with two brown spots apically | C . heteropterus (Shi et al., 2009) |
– | Scutellum without brown spots apically | 13 |
13 | Face yellow with brown spots | 14 |
– | Face white without spots | C . albifacies sp. nov. |
14 | Mesonotum with brown spots on transverse suture; surstylus with outer process twice as long as wide in ventral view | C . flavoscutellat us (de Meijere, 1910) |
– | Mesonotum with brown spots on transverse suture large and ensiform posteriorly; surstylus with outer process 4 times longer than wide in ventral view | C . longinudus (Shi et al., 2009) |
15 | Palpus yellow; wing distally lacking marginal spots; surstylus with outer process elongate and blunt distally in lateral view | C . liui (Shi et al., 2009) |
– | Palpus black; wing with distal brown marginal spots between R2+3 and R4+5 and between R4+5 and M1+2; surstylus with outer process distinctly triangular in lateral view | 16 |
16 | Wing with a small rhombic hyaline spot in the brown area between R2+3 and R4+5; scutellum with paired elongate brown spots confluent with brown patch on mesonotum; surstylus with inner process strongly arched, similar in size to outer process in ventral view | C . acuticurvus (Shi et al., 2009) |
– | Wing lacking hyaline spot in brown area between R2+3 and R4+5; scutellum with paired elongate brown spots isolated, separated from brown patch on mesonotum; surstylus with inner process not strongly arched, larger than outer process in ventral view | C . obtusus (Shi et al., 2009) |
Holotype
: ♂ (
Latin, abdominalis, referring to the white abdominal tergites I and II of the new species.
Face pale yellow, with one tubercle on middle and one rounded tubercle near ventral margin. Frons with one black velvet rectangular spot. Antenna yellow except pedicel blackish brown; arista brown except yellow basally, plumose. Thorax brown with gray pruinescence. Mesonotum with a pair of brown median bands and a pair of undulating lateral bands on anterior margin. Legs yellow, tibia with one incomplete brown ring near base and on tip respectively. Wing r1 cell half apically with broad brown band connected with the subapical band of r2+3 cell and r4+5 cell. Male genitalia: syntergosternite semicircular; epandrium trapeziform in lateral view; surstylus broad basally, tip slender and curved; hypandrium V-shaped.
Male. Body length 3.8 mm, wing length 3.9 mm. Female. Unknown.
Head (Fig.
Thorax (Fig.
Abdomen (Fig.
The new species is similar to Cestrotus acuticurvus Shi, Yang & Gaimari, 2009 from China (Yunnan) in having spots on the face and wing, but the latter has a mesonotum with brown trapeziform spots and a dm-cu with a brown spot.
China (Yunnan).
Holotype
: ♂ (
Latin, albifacies, referring to the new species’ white face without any spots or bands.
Face white, without brown spot or band. Frons with a pair of black velvet triangular spots. Antenna yellow; arista blackish brown except brown basally, plumose. Thorax with yellow pruinescence. Mesonotum with a pair of elliptical brown spots present on scutal suture. Legs yellow, femur brown except yellow apically; tibia with one incomplete brown ring near base. Wing r2+3 cell and r4+5 cell without margin spot; the hyaline region of dm-cu surrounded by two brown spots. Male genitalia: syntergosternite circular; surstylus consisting of one outer process and inner process; hypandrium Y-shaped, inner process longer than phallapodeme.
Male. Body length 3.3 mm, wing length 3.0 mm. Female. Unknown.
Head (Fig.
Thorax (Fig.
Abdomen (Fig.
The new species is similar to Cestrotus heteropterus Shi, Yang & Gaimari, 2009 from China (Yunnan) in the color of the face and in having spots on the tergite and wing, but the latter has spots on the face and the antennal pedicel brown.
China (Yunnan).
Holotype
: ♂ (
Latinized, referring to the type locality of the new species.
Face shining, blackish brown on half basally, yellow on half apically, with a pair of blackish brown trapeziform spots. Frons with two blackish brown velvet longitudinal bands extending to sides of ocellar triangle. Thorax brown with gray pruinescence. Mesonotum with two brown median bands, one gray narrow band between the median bands. Legs blackish brown, hind tibia pale brown, all tibiae with one white ring near tip. Wing brown, with three hyaline spots between R2+3 and R4+5. Male genitalia: syntergosternite semicircular; hypandrium V-shaped, with a pair of short inner process on sides, one V-shaped membrane on inferior margin; gonopod with setulae basally, curved apically.
Male. Body length 3.7–3.8 mm, wing length 3.7–3.8 mm. Female. Body length 3.8–4.0 mm, wing length 3.9–4.1 mm.
Head (Fig.
Thorax (Fig.
Abdomen (Fig.
The new species is similar to Phobeticomyia lunifera (de Meijere, 1910) from Indonesia (Java), but the latter has no inner process on the hypandrium, and the phallus has no apical spine.
China (Tibet).
Holotype
: ♂ (
Latin, longa, meaning long, referring to the new species’ clypeus with one long median process.
Face brownish yellow, with one brown broad median band on middle. Frons with one yellow W-shape spot on anterior margin. Antenna blackish brown; arista brown, pubescent. With one long median process on male clypeus. Thorax with gray pruinescence. Mesonotum with one narrow gray pruinescent band on the middle and a pair of gray pruinescent bands along the rows of dorsocentral setae. Legs yellow; tibiae with blackish brown sub-basal ring and apical ring. Wing with one irregular hyaline spot under the tip of R2+3, one hyaline apical spot between R4+5 and M1. Male genitalia: syntergosternite broad, circular, with a pair of short ventral process; surstylus short, rod-like in lateral view; aedeagal dorsal sclerites consisting of a pair of sclerites, narrow apically.
Male. Body length 6.5 mm, wing length 6.4 mm. Female. Body length 6.5–6.7 mm, wing length 6.4–6.5 mm.
Head (Figs
Thorax (Fig.
Abdomen (Fig.
The new species is similar to Prosopophorella zhuae Shi & Yang, 2009 from China (Guangxi) in body color, face, wing type and male genitalia. However, tarsi 3–5 of the latter is pale brown and the syntergosternite has no ventral process, whereas tarsi 3–5 in the new species is yellow and the syntergosternite has a pair of ventral processes.
China (Tibet).
The research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31301903), the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China (2019HJ2096001006) and the Special Foundation for National Science and Technology Basic Research Program of China (2018FY100400).