Phortica ( Phortica ) lanuginosa Chen & Toda, 2007

Phortica ( Phortica) lanuginosa Chen & Toda View in CoL , new species

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Diagnosis. – Anepisternum with setulae; aedeagal basal bridge with ca. 10 triangular, strongly sclerotized teeth along margin ( Fig. 29 View Figs ).

Material examined. – Holotype male (terminalia dissected), MALAYSIA: Park Headquarters, Mt. Kinabalu , Sabah, coll. M. J. Toda, 11 Mar.1999 ( KPSP).

Description. – Male. Head: Frons dark brown on upper half, brown on lower half. Arista sometimes with 1 small ventral branch.

Thorax: Orange yellow. Scutellum with trifurcate brown patch, pale yellow on tip.

Wing: Smoky.

Legs: All femora slightly brown. Midleg tibia subapically with 3-4 longer setae on anterior surface.

Abdomen: First to fifth tergites yellow; second tergite with brownish black patches submedially; third to fifth tergites each with medially protruded, sublaterally interrupted, black band on posterior margin; sixth tergite nearly entirely black, narrowed on lateral margins, with a few long strong setae on posterolateral margins.

Male terminalia: Epandrium pubescent anteroventrally and dorsomedially, with 9 setae on dorsal to posterolateral portion per side ( Fig. 26 View Figs ). Surstylus pubescent and setigerous, with wedge-shaped prensisetae on inner margin ( Fig. 27 View Figs ). Additional plate between cerci and 10th sternite pubescent, medially connected to 10th sternite ( Fig. 28 View Figs ). Posterolateral lobe of hypandrium undeveloped. Paramere with pubescence distally, 1 sensillum and 4 teeth apically, and 1 small process subapically ( Fig. 29 View Figs ). Vertical lobe of gonopods with 1 pair of somewhat triangular lobes basally ( Fig. 29 View Figs ). Aedeagal median rod with knot subapically, basally with 1 pair of bridges ( Fig. 29 View Figs ).

Female: Unknown.

Measurements: BL = 4.81 mm in holotype; ThL = 2.31 mm; WL = 3.32 mm; WW = 1.44 mm.

Indices: arb = 4/0-1, avd = 0.36, adf = 2.20, flw = 1.30, FW/ HW = 0.40, ch/o = 0.07, prorb = 1.15, rcorb = 0.45, vb = 0.35, dcl = 0.60, presctl = 0.90, sctl = 0.90, sterno = 1.10, orbito = 1.20, dcp = 0.25, sctlp = 0.90, C = 2.00, 4c = 1.47, 4v = 2.59, 5x = 0.80, ac = 3.57, M = 0.47, C3F = 0.72.

Etymology. – From the Latin word “lanuginosus”, meaning clothed with several setulae, referring to the anepisternum.

Distribution. – Malaysia ( Sabah).

Remarks. – This species is somewhat similar to P. ( P.) cardua in the morphology of arista and paramere, but can be distinguished from it by the setigerous anepisternum and the aedeagal basal bridge (in P. cardua : anepisternum lacking setulae; aedeagal basal bridge with ca. 5 triangular, sclerotized teeth along margin and 2–3 apically sclerotized lobe-like processes).