Conicera reniformis Liu 2000
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Description
23. Conicera reniformis Liu (Figs. 20A–E)
Conicera reniformis Liu, 2000: 167 (♂, China: Guangxi).
Description. Male. Body length 1.1 mm. Frons dark brown. Supra-antennal present. Lower fronto-orbital setae absent. Lower interfrontal setae slightly shorter than upper interfrontal setae and the distance between each other equaled to that between upper interfrontal setae. First flagellomere dark brown, 0.25 mm long, with an aspect ratio of 2.13:1; arista 0.31 mm long, 1.20 times as long as that of first flagellomere. Palpus dark brown, with short setae apically.
Thorax dark brown. Mid and hind legs brown, fore leg yellowish brown. Fore tibia with 10 small near-dorsal setulae, the uppermost being longer than the rest. Mid femur without sense-organ. Wing length 1.20 mm. Costal index 0.40, costal ratio 1.86:1, costal setulae length 0.08 mm. Vein Rs with basisetula. Veins brown, except A 1 +CuA 2 whitish gray. Halter brown.
Abdominal tergites dark brown. Terminalia (Fig. 20A) brown. Left surstylus (Figs. 20B, D) reniform, with 14– 16 inner teeth arranged in two rows on dorso-apical edge. Right surstylus (Figs. 20C, E) semicircular, with 12–14 inner teeth arranged in two rows on dorso-apical edge; basidorsal process membranous and biforked.
Female. Unknown.
Specimens examined. 1♂ (holotype), Guangxi, Longsheng, 28-May-1992, Guangchun Liu, Min Wang; 2♂, Guangxi, Mt. Maoer, 14-May-2004, Guangchun Liu; 1 ♂, Guangxi, Mt. Daming, 6-Jul-2011, Guangchun Liu; 1♂, Guangdong, Nanling, Wuzhishanzhen, 28-Jul-2011, Jianfeng Wang.
Distribution. China (Guangdong, Guangxi).
Remarks. In the key of Disney (1990) the species runs to couplet 7, to C. brunella Beyer, 1958, it differs from the latter by reniform left surstylus, absence of inner teeth on its edge and lacking lower fronto-orbital setae.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1992-05-28 , 2004-05-14 , 2011-07-06 , 2011-07-28
- Family
- Phoridae
- Genus
- Conicera
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Liu
- Species
- reniformis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1992-05-28 , 2004-05-14 , 2011-07-06 , 2011-07-28
- Taxonomic concept label
- Conicera reniformis Liu, 2000 sec. Liu, 2023
References
- Liu, G. C. (2000) Taxonomic study on Conicera Meigen (Diptera: Phoridae) from China. In: Zhang, Y. L. Study on the Insect Fauna. Beijing: China Agriculture Press, 162 - 173.
- Disney, R. H. L. (1990) A revised key to Australasian and Oriental Conicera (Diptera: Phoridae), with three new species. Entomologica scandinavica, 21, 339 - 344. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631290 X 00265
- Beyer, E. M. (1958) Die ersten Phoriden von Burma. Societas Scientiarum Fennica Commentationes Biologicae, 18 (8), 1 - 72.