Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 96. (Budapest 2004)

Papp, L.: Two new genera of the Oriental Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)

Claws normal, pul villi minute on legs. Mid tibia without middle ventral seta, a ventroapical seta present. Other setae on mid tibia sparse and not paired. No mid ventral seta on mid basitarsus. Hind tibia thickened with three strong thick apical spurs, but no dorsal preapical seta (Fig. 4). Hind basitarsus and second tarsomere enlarged. Abdominal tergites 3-5 somewhat reduced (Fig. 5) but sternites broad. Epandrium very small, surstylus short, phallus with large epiphallus and with a pair of long dorsal appendages (Fig. 9), like in Spinilimosina. Postgonites simple (Fig. 10). Remarks - The first idea, when one looks at this species, is that it may be related to Ceroptera and allied genera by its strong hind tibial spurs. Actually, no species of Ceroptera possesses so strong spurs. Wing venation itself would not contradict its relegation to Ceroptera and allies, but as far as I know, they have always long and mostly dense costal setae, at least on first section. After all, I named it as Aspinilimosina, since Spinilimosina has those long dorsal processes of phallus, which is a shared character with our fly. However, there are no strong spinelike setae on epandrium as in Spinilimosina. In ROHACEK'

s (1998) key it runs to couplet 41, but I cannot find its closest relative in the Limosinini genera. It has a wing venation (although not peculiar) rather different from that of Spinilimosina. The specific epithet of the type species refers to the extremely long postocellar pair, which may be a characteristic feature for the genus. There are some groups in spharocerids with long postocellars. For instance, I saw similarly strong postocellars in Sclerocoelus clarae (L. PAPP). However, postocellars of the Ceroptera species are not particularly long. In addition, I do not find any shared characters in the male genital structures of the species Ceroptera and allied genera to this new genus (cf. MARSHALL 1983, MARSHALL & MONTAGNES 1988). Aspinilimosina postocellaris sp. n. (Figs 1-10) Type material - Holotype male (NHRS): Ceylon, Sabaragamuwa, Prov. Kitulda, 21 mis N Ratnapura, 17. III. [ 19162. Loc. 152 - Lund University Ceylon Expedition 1962, Brinck-Andersson - Cederholm. Paratypes: 3 males (NHRS, 2 males in HNHM): data same as for holotype. The type specimens were kept in ethyl alcohol for 40 years. In the course of this long time they were completely discoloured, their body is light yellow, so I will not mention colour features in the description below. The holotype and the NHRS paratype were left in alcohol (they are also discoloured but otherwise in a good state of preservetion). The other two paratypes (HNHM) were treated with methyl-cellosolve and put into canada balsam in a round hole of a hard paper card each, covered on both sides by small pieces of cover glasses. One of those males is damaged, right wing and several setae are lost (postabdomen and genitalia in a plastic microvial with glycerol). The other male is severely damaged, its right wing was prepared on a microscopic slide, abdomen with genitalia are put into a microvial. I made the NaOH preparation years ago, and in November 2003, when I made the