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Trichoclinocera emotoi sp. nov. (Figs 5–6, 13, 17–18, 35, 41) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C258A922-8A4E-458D-923E-096FB9E304FD Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: “(E. NEPAL)/ Thurukpa (2600m)/ 27°36′ N, 87°36′ E - - -/ (E. NEPAL)/ Topke Gola (3700m)/ 27°38′ N, 87°35′ E”; “ June 12, 1972 / J. Emoto leg./ Kyushu Univ. Col.”; “[HOLOTYPE]/ Trichoclinocera / emotoi / Saigusa & Sinclair [red label]” (KUMF). PARATYPES: NEPAL: same data as holotype (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, CNC; 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, KUMF); Penmaten, 2600 m, 27°36′ N, 87°36′ E / Topke Gola, 3700 m, 27°38′ N, 87°35′ E, 30.vi.1973 / H. Makihara (1 ♂, KUMF); NE of Thudam, 4000 m, 27°47′ N 87°36′ E, 25.vi.1972, H. Shima (1 ♂, CNC). Recognition. This species is distinguished by the pair of long spur-like setae mounted on a short tubercle at the base of the fore femur, greyish legs, clear wings and clasping cercus with broad U-shaped notch near base. Description. Wing length 3.6–4.0 mm. Male. Grey-blue pruinescence and dark legs (Fig. 5). Head narrowed ventrally, compound eyes oval; facets enlarged anteroventrally. Face greatly narrowed medially, ca. width of antennal socket, with bright whitish pruinescence; lower margin of face straight, lacking cleft and carina; gena one-seventh as wide as eye height. Frons slightly darker than face in dorsal view; vertex and ocellar triangle dark brown, lower postocciput brown, gena lightly pruinescent. Ocellar seta longest among cranial setae; occiput with 3–4 pairs of long setae posterior to ocellar triangle; postocular with row of short setae along eye margin, upper 5–6 setae dark, stouter than lower setae; postgena with numerous long, white silky setae. Arista-like stylus long and slender, not tapered apically. Palpus short, pointed apically, ca. one-fourth eye height. Pleura grey with pale blue pruinescence; scutum greyish brown with somewhat bluish lateral margins, medially paler brown in posterior view; posterolateral margin of postpronotal lobe shiny brown; faint black vitta along inner edge of dc; prescutellar depression somewhat ... |