Tomosvaryella wyperfeldensis Motamedinia, Skevington & Földvari, 2023

Motamedinia, Behnam, Földvari, Mihaly, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2023, Revision of Australian Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) with description of 100 new species, Zootaxa 5599 (1), pp. 1-271 : 233

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5599.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14971431
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scientific name	Tomosvaryella wyperfeldensis Motamedinia, Skevington & Földvari
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Tomosvaryella wyperfeldensis Motamedinia, Skevington & Földvari sp. nov.

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Figs 106A–E View FIGURE 106 , 136 View FIGURE 136 , 144E View FIGURE 144

Diagnosis: This species can be recognized by the hind trochanter having a keel covered by small teeth along its edge ( Fig. 144E View FIGURE 144 ); hind femur with two rows bristles posteroventrally and posterodorsally ( Fig. 144E View FIGURE 144 ); surstyli elongated, outer margin sinuous in dorsal view ( Fig. 106A View FIGURE 106 ); gonopods equal in height, extended towards surstyli ( Fig. 106B View FIGURE 106 ); phallic guide with 3–4 short dorsolateral spines; both surstyli boot-shaped in lateral view ( Fig. 106D–E View FIGURE 106 ).

Description: MALE: Body length: 3.0 mm. Head. Scape and pedicel dark; flagellum brown, grey pollinose, long tapering. Face silvery pollinose. Frons, upper part shining black; lower part distinctly silver pollinose; eyes touching for distance equal to 2 times the length of ocellar triangle. Occiput silvery pollinose. Thorax. Postpronotum pale with 3–4 different-sized pale bristles. Mesonotum, postalar callus and scutellum brown pollinose, otherwise shiny, somewhat grey pollinose. Mesonotum with two rows of short, dark dorsocentral bristles, some longer bristles in upper margin behind postpronotum. Scutellum with some scattered short dark bristles. Halter, knob pale, tip brownish, stem dark. Legs. Mid coxa with 3–4 long dark bristles. Trochanters brown, femora black, silvery pollinose posteriorly except shiny hind femur; knees and basal 1/6 of tibiae light brown (tibiae otherwise dark), tarsal segments light brown. Hind trochanter with a keel, covered by small teeth along its edge ( Fig. 144E View FIGURE 144 ); two ventrobasal spines present on fore and absent on mid femur. Hind femur without ventroapical spines, except 8–10 equally spaced long bristles posteroventrally, longer on distal half, longest up to 2/3 the width of hind tibia at distal end and shorter bristles posterodorsally ( Fig. 144E View FIGURE 144 ). Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present (short). Hind tarsomeres distinctly flattened, hind metatarsus almost as long as 2–4 combined, dorsally all tarsomeres with erect bristles. Pulvilli shorter than last tarsal segment. Wing. Length: 3.0 mm. Upper side of basal costal cell with one long pale bristle. Fourth costal section 3 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein r-m at middle of discal cell. 2–3 short dark setulae on tegula. Abdomen. First tergite grey pollinose with 6–8 different-sized lateral bristles up to as long as ¾ of hind femur width at base. Genitalia. Genital capsule in dorsal view: epandrium wider than long (MLE:MWE = 0.7). Surstyli elongated, outer margin sinuous, rather widened at base, constricted in the middle, then broadened, as wide as the base, pointed at apex, left surstylus longer than right one ( Fig. 106A View FIGURE 106 ). Genital capsule in ventral view: gonopods equal in height, extended towards surstyli, pointed at apex, both gonopods with a triangular projection on inner margin; phallic guide with 3–4 short dorsolateral spines; subepandrial sclerite widened in the middle ( Fig. 106B View FIGURE 106 ); Genital capsule in lateral view: both surstyli boot shaped, straight in basal two thirds, broadened and strongly bent towards sternite in apical third ( Fig. 106D–E View FIGURE 106 ). Ejaculatory apodeme tube-like, bent, with a bulb in its middle ( Fig. 106C View FIGURE 106 ).

FEMALE: Unknown.

Etymology: This species is named after the type locality. Six of the species included in this revision were collected in Wyperfeld National Park. This is the third largest park in Victoria and it protects a significant portion of the Victorian mallee diversity.

Examined material: HOLOTYPE: AUSTRALIA: Victoria: Wyperfeld NP, East Lookout , 35°36’S, 142°7’E, 22.X.2014, J.H., A.W., & A.M. Skevington, A.D. Young, A. Wyatt, & S. Namek, CNC373426 View Materials (1♂, QM). GoogleMaps

Distribution: Australia (Victoria) ( Fig. 136 View FIGURE 136 ).

Notes: This is another species that is only known from a single specimen found hilltopping.