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Trichoclinocera nakanishii sp. nov. (Figs 9–10, 15, 21–22, 37, 41) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 6191F70F-BA02-49F9-BC5D-2F43EC8BB3CE Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: “(NEPAL)/ Chhouban, Kharka, 3400m / 83°25′ E. 28°43′ N./ Sept. 28. 1971 / A. Nakanishi ”; “[HOLOTYPE]/ Trichoclinocera / nakanishii / Saigusa & Sinclair [red label] [dissected]” (KUMF). Recognition. This species is distinguished by three long spine-like setae at the base of the fore femur, greyish legs, clear wings, and shape of the clasping cercus. Description. Wing length 3 mm. Male. Grey-blue pruinescence and dark brownish legs (Fig. 9). Head pointed ventrally, compound eyes oval; facets enlarged anteroventrally. Face greatly narrowed medially, ca. width of antennal socket, with bright whitish pruinescence for full length; lower margin of face with short, narrow cleft, lacking carina; gena one-seventh as wide as eye height. Frons greyish brown; vertex and ocellar triangle dark brown, lower postocciput brown, gena lightly pruinescent. Ocellar setae longest among cranial setae; occiput with 3 pairs of setae posterior to ocellar triangle; postocular with row of short setae along margin of eye, upper 3–4 setae dark, stouter than lower setae. Arista-like stylus short and stout, not tapered apically. Palpus pointed apically, ca. one-fourth height of eye. Pleura grey with pale blue pruinescence; scutum brown, paler medially and on postpronotal lobe, somewhat bluish lateral margins; apex of postpronotal lobe shiny brown, dark vitta along edge of dc inconspicuous; prescutellar depression brown in posterior view. Thoracic setae long, ca. subequal to width of eye; acrostichal setulae lacking; 5 pairs dc; 1 very short pprn, one-fourth length of dc; 1 presut spal; 2 npl; 1 psut spal; 1 pal; 2 pairs sctl and pairs of pale marginal setulae; several pale setulae on postpronotal lobe and notopleural depression. Laterotergite with patch of pale setae; prothoracic episternum with 1 long, spine-like seta and several pale setae, longer than width of fore coxa; ... |