Katara, 2019

GENUS KATARA VUJIĆ & RADENKOVIĆ View in CoL GEN. NOV.

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The taxon shares the following adult morphological characters with all Rhingiini taxa: pilose postpronotum; two-segmented aedeagus of male genitalia; face with well-defined parafacia; antenna shorter than head; wing: cell R4 + 5 acute, with long petiole; anterior crossvein (r-m) before middle of cell DM (but r-m at middle position in Ferdinandea ); upper outer cross vein (M 1) more or less straight; vein R +

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5 almost straight.

Diagnosis: Katara Vujić & Radenković gen. nov. possesses a unique combination of character states that clearly discriminates it from all other Rhingiini genera: eye dichoptic in both sexes ( Fig. 4D, E) and abdomen distinctly broader than thorax in both sexes (1.3–1.4 times wider than thorax) ( Fig. 5C–F); basoflagellomere small, rounded, with a short, slightly thickened arista almost as long as the length of antenna ( Fig. 4C), proepisternum and proepimeron bare of pilosity in both sexes; and male genitalia with elongated surstylus and epandrium ( Fig. 6A, B). Other generic diagnostic characters that discriminate Katara gen. nov. from other Rhingiini genera are: face not protruded ( Fig. 4A); frons protruded ( Fig. 4A) with transverse striae ( Fig. 4D); eye bare; antennal pits narrowly connected ( Fig. 7A); the ventral margin of lunula is almost straight without a medial process ( Fig. 7A); thorax without bristles; metasternum bare; alula reduced ( Fig. 8A:x); costal vein ending before wing apex ( Fig. 8A:y); anterior crossvein (r-m) placed before mid of cell DM ( Fig. 8A); subscutellar fringe absent; tarsomeres of mesolegs ventrally without black bristles; male genitalia with hypandrium apically protruded ( Fig. 6), ejaculatory apodeme spatulate ( Fig. 6C:f), gonostylus plate-like ( Fig. 6D), ctenidium on gonostylus well developed ( Fig. 6D), spermal pump bifurcated ( Fig. 6C:e), distiphallus angulated ( Fig. 6C:a) and dentate ( Fig. 6C:a), lateral sclerites of distiphallus fused ( Fig. 6C), surstylus without lateral carina ( Fig. 6A), lateral arms of minis not well developed ( Fig. 6B:g).

Etymology: The new genus is named based on type locality, an area between Katara pass and Kampos

Despoti, in PindosMountains, central Greece. Word ‘ Katara ’ is latinized from the Greek word ‘ Kataras ’. The name is to be considered as feminine. It means ‘curse’ in Greek language, indicating the dangerous high mountain pass.