Iteaphila miranda Sinclair & Shamshev 2021, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Sinclair, Bradley J., Shamshev, Igor V.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Iteaphilidae; Iteaphila; Iteaphila miranda; San Juan; Canada; British Columbia; Sinclair; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Sickle; Anadyr River; Anadyr'; Chukotka; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4814502; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4814502

Iteaphila miranda sp. nov. (Figs 61, 71) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F3E3E5AE-D93B-4B40-BD6D-16FC364BE3DE Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: “ 8km E.Sicamous [50°53′N 118°54′W], B.C. [Canada]/ 1-VI-1992 / A. Borkent CD1418”; “ HOLOTYPE / Iteaphila / miranda/ Sinclair & Shamshev [red label]” (CNC). PARATYPES: CANADA. Alberta: Banff NP [51.5°N 116.0°W], 14 mi W Banff, 7.vii.1955, GES ex. flowers of Ledum groenlandicum (2 ♂, 2 ♀, CNC); Lake Louise [51°24′42″N 116°13′41″W], 29.vii.1935, ALM (1 ♂, USNM); Peter Lougheed PP, Sarrail Ck, 9.vii.2012, 50°36′25.7″N 115°7′48.61″W, ex. flowers, BJS (2 ♀, CNC), same data except, CNC197577, CNC197575 (1 ♂, 1 ♀, barcoded, CNC). British Columbia: Cathedral PP, Quiniscoe Lk. [49°02′59″N 120°13′50″W], 7.vii.1986, S.G. Cannings (1 ♂, UBCZ). USA. Colorado: Gunnison Co., Spring Ck Cpgd [38°44′56″N 106°46′00″W], 5 mi N Almont, 5.vi.1992, JFM (1 ♂, CNC); Gunnison Co., Spring Ck Cpgd, 10 mi N Almont, 5.vi.1992, JFM (1 ♀, CNC); San Juan Co., E Fork Sig Ck, 10200 ft, 37°39′10″N 107°51′57″W, 18.vi.2017, SEB (2 ♂, CNC). Additional material examined. RUSSIA. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug: Anadyr River, 64.72°N 175.21°E, 25.vi.–19.vii.2014, A. Barkalov (1 ♂, ZIN). USA. Washington: Mt. Rainier NP, Westside Rd nr Fish Ck, 4.vii. 2013, 880 m, 46°46.743′N 121°53.069′W, BJS (1 ♀, CNC). Recognition. This species is distinguished by the elongate and dorsally directed surstylus and sickle-shaped phallus (Fig. 61). Description. Wing length 3.2–4.0 mm. Male. Head dark brown in ground-colour, with brown to black setation, occiput thinly to densely greyish pollinose. Eyes holoptic, with upper ommatidia enlarged. Frons represented by small triangular space just above antennae, bare, greyish pollinose. Ocellar triangle prominent, with 2 pairs of long hair-like setae. Postvertical setae subequal to postocular setae, thin; occiput covered with numerous similar setae in lower part, brown posterior to mouthparts. Antenna dark brown; scape subequal in length with globular pedicel, both with short setae; ...