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Roháček, J. ; Papp, L.: A review of the genus Paralimosina L. Papp (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), with descriptions of ten new species
pleuron. Legs with brown coxae; femora dark, tibiae paler brown; trochanters, knees and tarsi yellowish, fore tarsi whitish yellow. f t slightly thickened. f 2 chaetotaxy as in Figs 17, 18, ventrally without row of spines but with reduced va; middle pd well developed. f 3 slightly thicker than in female. The ratio t 2 :mt 2 = 2.05-2.22. Wing distinctly brownish, veins yellowish brown. R2 J r 3 and R4+5 sinuate, the latter apically straight. Discal cell large, widened in the middle; coloured extensions of Ml +2 and MS +4 beyond Ip short but continued by colourless fold. Wing measurements: length 1.83-2.22 mm, width 0.87-0.92 mm, C-index = 1.02-1.15, ta-tp : tp = 1.56-1.76. Haltères yellow with darker knob. Abdomen cylindrical, relatively narrow. Terga dark brown, microtomentose but without microsculpture. Sterna becoming wider posteriorly, dark and as tomentose as terga. S5 (Fig. 7) simple, finely setulose; S6 with a membraneous, short, finely haired lobe posterior to its stripe-like ventral part. Genitalia — Periandrium (Figs 9, 10) long, globose, rather densely setulose. Subanal plate with moderately long caudal bristle and also the paired scale-like ventral setae not very widened. Gonostylus (Fig. 8) short and wide, with slender long-haired posterior lobe and its fiat anterior lobe with finely pubescent fore rounded margin and internally with about 6-7 short robust spines. Aedeagal complex (Fig. 11). Phallophore short, ventrally acute. Distiphallus with complex, anteriorly projecting dorsal sclerite; ventroapical sclerite subapically tuberculate. Postgonite very slender, apically pointed, with a subapical tubercle and several minute setulae on anterior margin. Ejaculatory apodeme well developed though pale. Female. Similar to male except for more slender f x and f 3 and long va on t 2 (Fig. 19). Total body length 2.14-2.98 mm, t 2 : mt 2 = 1.85-1.94. Wing measurements: length 1.98-2.74 mm, width 0.91-1.23 mm, C-index = 0.98-1.08, ta-tp : tp = 1.43-1.80. Abdomen flatter than in male, with wider preabdominal terga. Postabdomen (Figs 12-14) small, relatively narrow from 7th segment. T10 very pale, roughly oblong, with 2 long setuale. S8 large, long, shield-shaped, with characteristic pigmentation. S10 broad, pale, with deep anterior incision, connected with spectacles-shaped sclerite (Fig. 16) being composed of central sclerotized part and 2 relatively small rings. Spermathecae (Fig. 15) large, vesiculate, with wrinkled surface and shallow apical invagination. Terminal parts of ducts very bulbous, inserted into basal invagination of spermathecae. Cerci slender, with long apical and dorsopreapical sinuate setae and some shorter hairs. Etymology — The specific epithet reflects the golden orange colour of the head. Distribution : Nepal. Discussion — P. bracteaia sp. n. resembles P. marshalli sp. n. in most external features including the orange head, but the differences in the male genitalia seem to be too large to consider them sister-species. 4. Paralimosina brevis sp. n. (Figs 20-33) Type matériát — Holotype rf : Nepal, nr. Birganj Lothar, 11. IX. 67, 450', Mal. trap, Can. Nepal Exped. (BRI). — Parat y p es: 7 3 MO with the same data (BRI, JRO, HNHM). Description — Maie. Total body length 1.52-1.90 mm; general colour dark brown, except for head. Frons orange, only orbits, M-shaped mark and ocellar triangle reddish brown to brown. Interfrontalia very narrow and yellowish white tomentose. Orbits and brown occiput with greyish silver microtomentum. Frontal lunule and carina yellowish orange, face reddish brown with some diffuse brown hue; gena orange brown, with greyish microtomentum. Cephalic bristles thick but not long; chaetotaxy: pvt very small, hair-like; 2 usual ors: 3 ifr, the anterior minute, middle and posterior moderately long; g relatively long. Eyes not much reduced, their diameter 2.38 times as long as smallest genal height. Antennae rather short, scape and pedicel orange, 1st fiagellomere darker brownish on apex and covered with grey cilia. Arista moderately long, more than twice as long as antenna. Thorax dark brown, mesonotum covered by dark tomentum. Two dc but anterior very small; 10-12 rows of densely arranged ac microsetae. Scutellum large, its length 0.66 of its width; sc thin but long, lateral sc being as long as scutellum. Two stpl, the anterior one comparatively long; sternopleuron with some additional scattered setulae. Legs mainly dark brown but t u fore tarsi, tnt 3 and hind second tarsomere and ventral side of other tarsal parts red or brownish red. r 2 chaetotaxy as in Figs 28, 29, ventrally with only much reduced va. Legs rather robust, f x and f z somewhat thickened. The ratio t 2 : mt 2 = 1.87-1.97. Wings broad, very pale brownish, veins yellowish, C brown.
