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Image of Minettia (Minettiella) bawanglingensis Shi & Yang 2014

Minettia (Minettiella) bawanglingensis Shi & Yang 2014

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MALE. Body length 4.4 mm, wing length 4.2 mm. FEMALE. Body length 4.0 mm, wing length 3.9 mm. Head. Frons slightly concaved with yellow anterior margin. Gena about 1/6 eye height. Antenna blackish brown, 1st flagellomere yellow at base, and 1st flagellomere nearly 1.6 times longer than high; arista pubescent, with longest rays about 1/4 height of 1st flagellomere. Proboscis black with dark yellow at apex and palpus black. Thorax with brownish gray pruinosity. Mesonotum 0+2 dc (anterior dc far behind transverse scutal suture), acr in 6 rows; two pairs of long acr present in front of prsc, prsc slightly shorter than 1st post-sutural dc. Legs: tibia black with yellow at base, mid and hind tarsi yellow. Fore femur with 4 pv and 8 pd, fore tibia with 1 short preapical ad and 1 short apv. Mid femur with 3 a and 1 app; mid tibia with 1 strong preapical ad and 1 strong apv. Hind femura with 1 weak preapical ad, hind tibia with 1 weak preapical ad and 1 short apv. Wing with costa with 2nd (between R1 and R2+3), 3rd (between R2+3 and R4+5) and 4th (between R4+5 and M1) sections in proportion of 7:1.3:1; r-m beyond middle of discal cell; ultimate and penultimate sections of M1 in proportion of 1:1; ultimate section of CuA1 about 1/7 of penultimate section. Abdomen with sparse brownish gray pruinosity. Male genitalia (Figs 6–10): syntergosternite circular with a weak ventral bridge, epandrium with a tiny subapical concave, surstylus separated from epandrium, consisting of a long claviform process with setulae in lateral view and with a long triangular process in posterior view; hypandrium slender, projecting medially and nearly V-shaped; postgonite contorting, consisting of an acute triangular apical process and three apical setae; aedeagus columnar, truncate basally and blunt rounded apically, consisting of a triangular dorsal process subapically in lateral view and a black bottle-shaped inner process with an elliptical incision and many spiculate processes in ventral view; aedeagal apodeme narrow and short, projecting forwards, nearly right angle between hypandrium and aedeagus. Female terminalia (Figs 33–34): sternite 7 trapeziform with long setae on posterior margin, sternite 8 semicircular with three pairs of long setae on posterior margin and sternite 9 with a groove; spermathecae 2+1, round and all stems leading to the three spermathecae narrow apically.
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Li Shi, Ding Yang
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Shi L, Yang D (2014) Five new species of Minettia (Minettiella) (Diptera, Lauxaniidae) from China ZooKeys (449): 81–103
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Ding Yang
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China (Hainan).
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Li Shi, Ding Yang
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Shi L, Yang D (2014) Five new species of Minettia (Minettiella) (Diptera, Lauxaniidae) from China ZooKeys (449): 81–103
author
Li Shi
author
Ding Yang
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