taxonID	type	description	language	source
03DB879419124156499B064AFEA11549.taxon	materials_examined	Type species, A. arctophila Schmitz, 1927 The treatment of Abaristophora Schmitz, 1927 and Antipodiphora Schmitz, 1939 as distinct genera was long disputed (Schmitz, 1939; Borgmeier, 1963; Brown, 1988, 1992) until Disney & Ross (1997) treated Antipodiphora as a subgenus of Abaristophora. Nakayama & Shima (2006) gave detailed information on the status of each genus and the relation to its closest relative genus Borophaga. Before this article, 12 species were known worldwide (Table 1.). The species of subgenus Abaristophora are restricted to the northern hemisphere except the undescribed species in Brown (1992) from Venezuela, while the species of the subgenus Antipodiphora seems to have an Oriental distribution.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB879419124154491C04A4F9E41526.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. — Holotype. Male, VIETNAM: Hoa Binh Prov., 6 km west of Tan Son, forest edge in a gorge, sweeping, 938 m, 20.7417977 ° N, 104.9401984 ° E, coll. Papp, L., Peregovits, L., Soltész, Z. & Lengyel, G., 22 Apr. 2010.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB879419124154491C04A4F9E41526.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. — Average-sized phorid fly with specific long membranous appendages on each side of the thorax. Antero- and mediolateral setae lacking on frons. Third antennal segment tapering suddenly after a bulbous part and bearing long rays. Arista emerges apically. Costa short, vein R 2 + 3 absent on wing. Anepisternum with setulae and without a furrow.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB879419124154491C04A4F9E41526.taxon	description	Description. — Male. Body length: 1.3 mm. Head brown. Frons (Fig. 3) approximately as high as broad, its surface covered with small, but not dense setulae. No median furrow, only antial, preocellar, ocellar, posterolateral and vertical setae present. Ocellars divergent, posterolaterals short and convergent. Verticals the shortest, divergent. Antial, preocellar and ocellar setae curving backward. Frons with a nose-like tubercle in the saggital line anteriorly. Antenna (Fig. 4) lies in bare cavity of prefrons. First flagellomere (postpedicel) brownish with a globose basal part which suddenly tapering Fig. 2. Abaristophora hirticornis new species male habitus. Scale bar = 0.5 mm. to a long appendage with long rays. It is covered with dense long setae. Arista emerges apically from the appendage and covered by short trichia. Palpi yellowish, each with seven dark setae. Thorax typically hump-backed. Scutum brown. The two scutellar setae emerge far from each other, close to the anterior hair-like setulae. Anepisternum with nine setulae in upper part. A pair of membranous appendages situated on the metathorax at the meeting point of meron, hind coxa and abdominal membrane (Figs. 2, 5). Appendages with small spiny microtrichia, apex pigmented brownish, base pale yellowish. A tube visible inside. Legs yellowish. Fore leg with palisades on tibia, metatarsus and second tarsal segment. Last tarsal segment longer than fourth (Fig. 6). Claws absent. Mid tibia with two setae basally and with a palisade of setulae, which runs to the end of the first three quarter. Hind tibia with two palisades of setulae. Membrane of wings (Fig. 7) clear. Subcostal vein short, not reaching costa or R 1. Vein R 2 + 3 absent. Three weak longitudinal veins (M 1 + 2, M 3 + 4, Cu) visible on wing membrane, anal vein as a faint fold only. Two hairs present on axillary ridge (on Fig. 7 it is broken). Costa short (costal index: 0.35). Halteres with stalk yellowish, knob brown. Abdominal tergites brown, posterior margins faded to yellowish. No conspicuous sternites. Epandrium brown, covered in dense microtrichia, higher than wide. Right epandrial lobe long with numerous setae. Cerci with strong setulae. Epandrium much higher than broad or long (Fig. 8 a – b), and with a circular orifice for the cerci and hypoproct. Hypoproct small, microtrichose. Cerci with a small ventromedial sharp process each and with numerous medium long setae. Cercal orifice bordered by setae on epandrium. Epandrium and hypandrium not fused. Epandrium caudally (ventrally) with long setae (Fig. 8 c). Hypandrium (Fig. 8 d) much smaller than epandrium, almost completely ventral, with 3 pairs of ventral processes, of with the anterior process double. Anterior and dorsal parts of hypandrium membranous and covered by oval to longish incrustations, mostly very narrow U-shaped (Fig. 8 d). Basiphallus forms an open ring (Fig. 8 e), phallapodeme curved lamelliform (in the sagittal plane). Distiphallus with 2 asymmetrical thorn-like sharp processes (Fig. 8 c – e), apical part conical. Female. — Unknown.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB879419124154491C04A4F9E41526.taxon	etymology	Etymology. — The specific epithet “ hirticornis ” refers to the peculiar antenna with numerous long rays.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB879419124154491C04A4F9E41526.taxon	distribution	Distribution. — Presently known only from Vietnam.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB8794191041544B0704B8F8F11365.taxon	materials_examined	Type species, P. platypezoidea Disney, 1987 The genus was established based on a single male specimen caught in Dumoga-Bone National Park, Sulawesi (Disney, 1987). Brown (1994) mentioned a second male from the Philippines. Otherwise there is no more data on this littleknown genus.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB87941910415349170278F97C10A6.taxon	description	(Figs. 1, 9 – 12 a – f)	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB87941910415349170278F97C10A6.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. — Holotype. Male, VIETNAM: Hoa Binh Province 6 km W of Tan Son, forest edge in a gorge, sweeping, 938 m, 20.7417977 ° N, 104.9401984 ° E, VN 2010 PL _ 25, coll. Papp, L., Peregovits, L., Soltész, Z., & Lengyel, G., 22 Apr. 2010. Paratype. — 1 male Vietnam, Bac Kan, Ba Be National Park, forest in the gorge behind the headquarter, 200 m, 22.417137 ° N, 105.632505 ° E, sweeping, coll. Papp, L., Peregovits, L., Soltész, Z., & Lengyel, G., 17 – 18 Apr. 2010.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB87941910415349170278F97C10A6.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. — Postoptica continentalis new species characterised by its genitalic difference.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB87941910415349170278F97C10A6.taxon	description	Description. — Male. Body length: 4.8 mm. Head dark brown. Eyes almost touching each other behind the ocellar triangle. Third antennal segment with numerous long setae (Fig. 9). Largest pair approximately as long as the diameter of third segment. Arista apical, covered with similar microtrichia as the surface of third segment. Palpus with six strong setae emerging on the distal ventral margin, and many smaller setulae on the inner surface (Fig. 10). Stem of palpus quite long. Thorax dark brown. Scutellum with two weak lateral setae. Anepisternum with eight or nine setulae in a cluster at the distal middle part, and seven in the upper portion. Legs without differentiated setae or palisade of setulae. Fore coxa, femur, tibia and metatarsus with relatively deep and long grooves. Fore tibia strongly, mid tibia slightly, hind tibia a little bit harder widening distally. Claws strong. Wings (Fig. 11) clear, with very reduced wing venation. Only the costa and R 4 + 5 well developed, other veins weak, hardly discernible. Axillary ridge with 12 setae, (10 in P. platypezoidea). Haltera brown, knob of haltera relatively large. Abdominal tergites dark brown. Epandrium and hypandrium fused along a longer section (Fig. 12 a – b); epandrium bare, hypandrium with microtrichia (Fig. 12 a). Cerci in a semicircular orifice of epandrium (Fig. 12 a, d), cerci with short setae. Caudal to cerci there are two intricate processes, the left surstylus and the surstylar process (signed as “ s ” and “ p ” on Fig. 12 c). Surstylus with a black long thorny peg (i. e. not a thorn) and with a digitiform smaller process (Fig. 12 d). Numerous but not long setae emerge on it. Surstylar process quite robust, its apex seems sharp in left lateral view, actually not sharp apically (see Fig. 12 a). Cavity of hypandrium with a sack, whose wall is covered by curved short thornlets (Fig. 12 e – f). Phallic organ of an intricate structure: a medial well-sclerotised ring, an inner laterally directed subapical process, and an apical “ brush ” of dark but less sclerotised acrophallus (Fig. 12 d) present. Fig. 4. Left antenna Abaristophora hirticornis new species from lateral view. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. Fig. 5. Metathorax of Abaristophora hirticornis new species from lateral view. Fig. 6. Fore tarsomeres of Abaristophora hirticornis new species. Scale bar = 0.1 mm. Fig. 7. Wing of Abaristophora hirticornis new species. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB87941910415349170278F97C10A6.taxon	etymology	Etymology. — The name ‘ continentalis ’ refers to the species having been found in continental Asia.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
03DB87941910415349170278F97C10A6.taxon	distribution	Distribution. — At present known only from Vietnam. Affinities. — P. continentalis new species bears close resemblance to P. platypezoidea. These two species could be certainly distinguished by the structure of the male genitalia (Fig. 12 a – f). The holotype of P. platypezoidea is slidemounted, therefore it can only be examined in one plane, and this limited the information that could be extracted from the specimen. Brown (1994) provided additional figures of the genitalia for this species. Based on his figures, it appears that the surstylus in case of P. platypezoidea is more pointed, short and wide, while in P. continentalis it is long, narrower with rounded tip. Additional specimens may help identify more distinctions between these two species.	en	Lengyel, Gábor Dániel, Papp, László (2012): Two New Peculiar Phoridae (Diptera: Aschiza) From Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60 (1): 129-136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5347113
