Empidideicus ( Empidideicus ) tagoror Suárez, 2025

Empidideicus ( Empidideicus) tagoror Suárez , sp. nov.

( Fig. 10a–g View FIGURE 10 )

Type-material. Holotype 1♂ (DZUL-50900; pinned) and 1♀ (DZUL-50905) paratype from SPAIN: Canary Islands, Vilaflor , 28.1849ºN, - 16.6056ºW, 6.V.2023, D. Suárez & I. Santos leg. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Using the key of Evenhuis et al. (2023) this species runs to Empidideicus blascoi Evenhuis, Almeida & Andrade, 2023 but differs from it by having different male genitalia (i.e., aedeagal bulb ending at the level of parameral sheath, aedeagal apodeme with two large lateral rami, and epandrium in lateral view without apicoventral process). The combination of yellow scutellum and yellow mesonotum with three longitudinal black bands from postpronotal lobe to postalar callus rules out E. hispanus François, 1969 ( Spain) and E. carthaginesis Becker, 1907 ( Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Tunisia, Sudan). This species is close to E. hungaricus Thalhammer, 1991 ( Hungary, Malta, Corsica, Crimea) but differs from it by having wider black bands and with subsequent thinner, or even absent in some individuals, yellow mark between black bands and by having lateral bands lacking a median constriction and ending straight in the posterior margin of the mesonotum.

Description

Male ( Fig. 10a View FIGURE 10 ). Length: 0.8–1.0 mm. Wing: 0.6–0.8 mm. Head: length 2× longer than high in lateral view; eyes dichoptic; occiput and postgena yellow; vertex black; frons black, face yellow; tip of oral margin yellow; antennae black; scape short; pedicel trapezoidal; first flagellomere lanceolate, longer than wide; second flagellomere cylindrical, longer than wide; postmentum yellow; clypeus yellow, as long as oral margin; proboscis black, length as long as head length; labrum black, 0.8× proboscis length; palpus not evident.

Thorax: Mesonotum yellow with three longitudinal black bands from postpronotal lobe to postalar callus, the two lateral ones almost as long as mesonotum length while the central is as long as two-third the mesonotum length; prescutellar area yellow; scutellum yellow; mesonotum and dorsum of scutellum with short and yellow hairs; pleura bare, yellow with black marks to on following: postpronotal lobe, lower half of meron and katepisternum, anterolateral and lower third part of anepimeron, basal third of anepisternum, posterior basalare; halter stem light brown, knob yellow with a small light brown mark.

Legs: Yellow except tarsal segments brown.

Wing ( Fig. 10b View FIGURE 10 ): elongate, length 2.2× width; hyaline; veins dark brown; costa ends slightly beyond end of R 4+5; vein Sc incomplete, ending slightly beyond the origin of Rs; R 4+5 slightly bowed at apical one-third; fork of veins M 1 –M 2 length 2.7× basal stalk length; vein M 1 curved toward wing margin; M 2 straight downward at wing margin; cell dm open; CuP thin, straight to wing margin; anal cell open at wing margin; fringe of hair on posterior margin of wing homogenous in length, but becoming more sparse towards base.

Abdomen: All tergites yellow, tergites 1–2 with a wide black band anteriorly, tergites 3–4 with a reduced black band anteromedially, black dots laterally on tergites 2–5.

Terminalia ( Fig. 10c–f View FIGURE 10 ): Epandrium light brown, subrectangular in ventral view, darkly sclerotized apically. Epandrium subquadrate in lateral view, with narrow apical process, slightly curved; gonocoxa in ventral view lung-shaped, with small cylindrical gonostylus; lateral arms of parameral sheath extending well beyond gonocoxa, slightly longer than aedeagal bulb, flared apically; aedeagal bulb spheroidal; aedeagal apodeme cylindrical, with two lateral rami as long as aedeagal apodeme.

Female. Similar to male. Terminalia ( Fig. 10g View FIGURE 10 ): genital fork thin, U-shaped, with two inwardly directed processes on lateral arms, lateral arms much more sclerotized than medial portion; three well developed spermatheca, ovoid, with wide papillate apex on apical one-fourth, sclerotized brown, wider than long, large hole apically; apical spermathecal duct thin and transparent, length subequal to sperm pump; sperm pump near spermathecal reservoir, transparent, not sclerotized apically or basally.

Material examined. SPAIN: Canary Islands, Gran Canaria, Cuermeja , 27.978ºN, - 15.8123ºW, 24.II.2024, 2♀ [DZUL-50901 (pinned); DZUL-50975], A.J. Pérez, E. Jiménez & D. Lugo leg. GoogleMaps ; infra Roque Bentayga , 28.0067ºN, - 15.679ºW, 2. VI.2022, 1♀ (DZUL-50976), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; La Higuerilla , 28.0038ºN, - 15.6502ºW, 15. VI.2022, 1♂ (DZUL-50977), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; Pinos de Gáldar , 28.0352ºN, - 15.6207ºW, 22. VI.2022, 3♂ 34♀ (DZUL-50978 to DZUL-50991), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps ; Roque Bentayga , 27.9900ºN, - 15.6478ºW, 17. VI.2022, 1♀ (DZUL-50992), Ecolab leg. GoogleMaps Tenerife, Malpaís del Sanatorio , 28.2328ºN, - 16.6037ºW, 14. VI.2024, 5♀ (DZUL-47944, DZUL-47956, DZUL-47967, DZUL-47989), DZUL leg GoogleMaps .; Malpaís de Güímar , 28.3171ºN, - 16.3662ºW, 7♂ 57♀ (DZUL-50993 to DZUL-51000), 21.IV.2022, C. Ruiz & D. Lugo leg. GoogleMaps ; Minas de San José , 28.2641ºN, - 16.5857ºW, 28. VI.2024, 1♀ (DZUL-48100), DZUL leg GoogleMaps . La Palma, Las Manchas , 28.5903ºN, - 17.8887ºW, 8♂ 3♀ [DZUL-50902 (pinned); DZUL-51001], 17.VIII.2022, D. Lugo leg. GoogleMaps El Hierro, Cruz de Bernardo , 27.7411ºN, - 18.1423ºW, 26.VII.2023, 7♀ (DZUL-51002), D. Suárez leg. GoogleMaps ; El Sabinar , 27.7512ºN, - 18.142ºW, 26.VII.2023, 15♂ 42♀ [DZUL-50899 (pinned); DZUL-51003], D. Suárez leg. GoogleMaps ; Lomo Negro , 27.7538ºN, - 18.144ºW, 26.VII.2023, 1♂ 6♀ (DZUL-51004), D. Suárez leg. GoogleMaps

Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the Canarian aboriginal word ‘tagoror’, which designed the place where the king (‘mencey’) and their counsellors (usually warriors and elders) meet to solve different kind of tasks. It is a noun in apposition.

Distribution: Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma, and El Hierro.