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Amblypsilopus flavellus Wang, Zhu & Yang 2012

Description

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Male. Body length 4.5 mm, wing length 4.0 mm. Head brightly metallic green with pale grey pollen. Hairs and bristles on head pale yellow; frons with 1 pale curved and slightly thick hair on posterolateral slope; 1 pvt at end of postocular line. Ocellar tubercle with 2 long strong oc and 2 posterior hairs. Antenna yellow; pedicel with circlet of short blackish apical bristles except 1 dorsal bristle and 1 ventral bristle relatively long; first flagellomere short triangular, nearly as long as wide; arista [broken apically] apical, blackish. Proboscis yellow with pale yellow hairs; palpus yellow with pale hairs and 2 brownish yellow bristles. Thorax brightly metallic green with pale grey pollen, except mesonotum with small anterolateral area including humerus and large posterolateral area including postalar callus dark yellow; metapleuron yellow. Hairs and bristles on thorax black; 2 long strong black posterior dc and 3 pale yellow anterior hairs; 2 long and strong paired acr, 3-4 very short paired hairs anteriad; 1 short ih, 1 short ph, 1 short su, 2 sa, 1 psa, 2 npl; scutellum with 2 sc, basal pair absent. Legs yellow except fore tarsomere 1 white, mid and hind tarsomere 1 dark brown. Hairs and bristles on legs black except coxae with pale yellow hairs and brownish yellow bristles. Fore coxa with 3 bristles, hind coxa with 1 exterior bristle. Fore and mid femora thickened with narrowed apex. Fore tibia without distinct d, but with 1 long brownish posterior bristle at apical 1/5; apically with 1 av. Mid tibia with 1 a at middle, 1 ad at base and 4 pd; apically with 1 ad and 1 av. Hind tibia with row of pd and pv; apically with 1 ad and 1 av. Hind tarsomere 1 with 1 v at extreme base. Relative length ratio of tibiae and tarsomeres: LI 3.9 : 2.5 : 0.95 : 0.85 : 0.4 : 0.3; LII 4.1 : 3.2 : 0.85 : 0.6 : 0.3 : 0.2; LIII 5.7 : 2.6 : 1.0 : 0.7 : 0.4 : 0.2. Wing hyaline, veins dark brown. Vein M1 basally curved nearly at a right angle. Crossvein m-cu straight, CuAx ratio 1.3. Squama yellow with dark brown margin and with pale hairs. Halter dark yellow. Abdomen pale metallic green with thin pollen except segments 1-4 dark yellow or yellow with posterior margins of tergites 1-4 brown or dark brown. Hairs and bristles on abdomen black. Male genitalia (Fig. 1): Epandrium longer than wide in lateral view; epandrial lobe short, obtuse. Surstylus finger-like, slightly bent. Cercus dark yellow, shorter than epandrium, finger-like, basally slightly curved. Hypandrium apically nearly straight, with lateral arm rather thick near base. Female. Unknown.
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Jinjing Wang, Yajun Zhu, Ding Yang
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Wang J, Zhu Y, Yang D (2012) Two new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot with a key to species from Taiwan (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) ZooKeys 192: 27–33
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Jinjing Wang
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Yajun Zhu
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Ding Yang
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Distribution

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China (Taiwan).
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Jinjing Wang, Yajun Zhu, Ding Yang
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Wang J, Zhu Y, Yang D (2012) Two new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot with a key to species from Taiwan (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) ZooKeys 192: 27–33
author
Jinjing Wang
author
Yajun Zhu
author
Ding Yang
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