Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 71. (Budapest 1979)
Papp, L.: New species and records of Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from the USSR
Leptocera (Rachispoda) duodecimseta L. PAPP, 1973 — 1 çf: /Iepbe-Kyjib, JI. HH3. Baxma, necKH, 6eper o3epa, 15. III. 44, UlTaKejiböepr. — It was described from Mongolia, recently found in Afghanistan (PAPP 1978), new for the fauna of the USSR. Most likely it is a widely distributed East Palaearctic species. Leptocera (Rachispoda) excavata sp. n. (Figs. 8, 10-12) Body uniformly dark brown with some greyish pollen. Face very much protruding in profile, facial protuberance between antennái bases comparatively very big. 2 big anterior and 2 small posterior if pairs, arista 0.55 mm long with about 0.02 mm long hairs. No median acmi row. 1 + 3 dc pairs, 4 pairs of marginal scutellars, thoracic chaetotaxy same as in its relatives. Ventral preapical bristle of mid tibia much thicker and thrice longer than mid ventral bristle on mid metatarsus. Hind trochanter with moderately long thin hairs ventrally, hind tibia with a row each of long and rather thick anterodorsal and proterodorsal bristles. — Wings light brownish, veins brown, lower edge of discal cell angulate with a distinct vein appendage. c x = 1.12, t a-t p // p = 2.53. Wing length: holotype male: 1.73 mm, paratypes: 1.80-1.93 mm, width of wing: holotype male: 0.72 mm, paratypes: 0.75-0.92 mm. — Male epandrium very small with some short but thick bristles, anterior hypopygial process (Fig. 12) with one thick and curved, one thick and straight and one thinner bristle medially, its apex tripartite; pregonite^hin, straight with blunt apex (Fig. 11); posterior hypopygial process short with one very long hair (Fig. 10). Male pregenital sternite (Fig. 8) deeply excavated medially, medial part with minute bristles, apical part with thick bristles, long marginals and comparatively dense bristles between medial and marginal bristles. — Female supra-anal plate bare, shining, yellowish grey, with a low medial ridge and with a pointed apex; females seventh sternite with a considerable apex medially, whose tip is the most caudal part of the abdomen. Body length of holotype: 1.82 mm, that of paratypes: 1.82-2.21 mm. Holotype male: Habarovsk krai, P. Osipenko, 30. 7. [19]73, „tarnanüt". - Paratypes : 2 9 '• data as for holotype; 1 rf : Habarovsk krai, Nikolajevsk, 6. 8. 73. — ,,joekallas 5 km W Carex"; 1 çf, 1 9 : Habarovsk krai, Manoma, 25. 8. 73. — "talitee Carex, Juncus" and "madalso", respectively. — The holotype and three paratypes are deposited in the Zooloogia ja Botanika Instituut, one male and one female paratypes are in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Fig. 7. Leptocera (Rachispoda ) sajanica sp. n. : abdominal end of paratype female in ventral view. — Fig. 8. L. (Rachispoda) excavata sp. n. : 5th sternite of paratype male. — Fig. 9. L. (Rachispoda ) praeapicalis sp. n. : abdominal end of a paratype female in caudal view
