Damalis tamdaoensis, Tomasovic & Constant & Rasmont, 1802

Damalis tamdaoensis sp. nov.

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DIAGNOSIS. The new species can be easily separated from D. saigonensis by its larger size ( 20 mm), black legs and wings hyaline apically (smaller size ( 11 mm), legs reddish and wings with an apical dark marking in D. saigonensis ).

ETYMOLOGY. The species epithet refers to Tam Dao National Park , the location where the type series was collected in North Vietnam .

TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype ♂ ( Fig. 15 View Fig ): Vietnam, Tam Dao N.P. 21°31’N 105°33’E, 25- 30.VII.2011, day collecting. Leg J. Constant & J. Bresseel. I.G. 31.993. GoogleMaps

Paratype: 1 ♀ ( Fig. 16 View Fig ): same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

DESCRIPTION

Length: ♂, body: 20 mm.

Head: ( Fig. 15 A–B View Fig ) broader than thorax. Face convex, shiny black and slightly protruding. Mystax with transversal row of 4 black bristles. Frons with dark brown tomentum. Frontal and ocellar bristles absent. Ocellar tubercle slightly protuberant. Occiput with greyish tomentum; hairs sparse and white. Antennae black; scape, pedicel and postpedicel small, of equal length; scape and pedicel with black setae; arista four times as long as three basal segments combined. Palpi black with black setae. Proboscis black with two fine, long, black setae on ventral part.

Thorax: ( Fig. 15 A, C–D View Fig ) pronotum with white hairs. Scutum very strongly elevated and rounded, with greyish tomentum laterally; presutural area of scutum with short black hairs; postsutural area of scutum with longer black hairs. Scutellum black with greyish tomentum and white hairs on disc; very fine, black scutellar bristles.

Legs: ( Fig. 15 A, D View Fig ) entirely black. Metatrochanters markedly longer and thicker than others, with numerous black setae. Femora with fine, black setae and hairs. Tibiae with longer setae. Tarsi black with black setae.

Wings: ( Fig. 15 A, D View Fig ) iridescent, slightly whitish with base slightly infuscate; veins black.

Abdomen: ( Fig. 15 A, D View Fig ) black and dorsoventrally flattened. Tergites with short black hairs on central part; tergites I–II with lateral tuft of white and black hairs; other ones with lateral tuft of black hairs. Sternites with greyish tomentum and sparse short, white hairs.

Male genitalia: ( Fig. 17 View Fig ) black. Epandrium not divided, with long posterior processes rounded at apex; proctiger with two lobes and fine hairs apically ( Fig. 17 A View Fig ). Gonocoxites large with strong lateral bristles; dististylus broad at base and with narrow, rounded apical part ( Fig. 17 B View Fig ). Phallus short with flattened apical part; sheat forming a large bulge above the basal part; apodeme large; distiphallus missing ( Fig. 17 C View Fig ).

Female very similar to male ( Fig. 16 View Fig ).

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