Leia flavipennis Lastovka & Matile 1974

• Main Authors: Polevoi, Alexei, Salmela, Jukka
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Mycetophilidae; Leia; Leia flavipennis; Kamchatka; lena river; Yakutia; Yakutsk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080875; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A72879597074548C995FB05FAC9FB49

Leia flavipennis Laštovka & Matile, 1974 (Figs. 1; 6A) Leia flavipennis Laštovka & Matile, 1974: 99 = Leia automnala Ostroverkhova & Grishina, 1974: 80 syn.n. Material examined : RUSSIA : 1♂, Kamchatka territory, Kozyrevka, on Kamchatka river, 8.8.1908 (ZIN, A. Derzhavin leg., pinned); 1♂, Yakutia, Namtsy(Namskoje), left shore of Lena river, 90 km E of Yakutsk, 17.7.1926 (ZIN, N. Moskvin leg., pinned). Diagnosis . A yellowish or mainly dark-brown species, with clear wings and strongly sclerotized bean shaped gonostylus. Description . Male (n=2) Head dark-brown, covered with pale setae. Three ocelli in a line, with laterals close to, but not touching, eye margin. Clypeus brown, mouthparts and palpus yellow. (In Yakutian specimen head mainly yellowish-brown and clypeus yellow). Scape and pedicel yellow, first flagellomere yellow at base, the rest of flagellum yellowish-brown to brown. Middle flagellomeres slightly longer than wide. Thorax from yellow to mainly dark-brown with pale setae. Mesoscutum completely yellow or dark-brown with paler lateral areas. Scutellum yellow or brown with four strong marginal bristles. Propleuron yellow, the other lateral parts of the thorax and mediotergite yellow or brown. Wing (Fig. 6 A). Wing length 4.08–4.71 mm. Wing hyaline, yellowish tinged, small dark spot present at base of anal veins. Veins yellow. All, except Sc and A2 densely setose on dorsal side. Sc2 well beyond the middle of Sc. Base of M-fork beyond the middle of ta. CuA1 interrupted at base. R1 0.72–0.78 times as long as ta, which is 0.31– 0.35 times as long as R5 and 1.27–1.43 times as long as M-stem. Haltere yellow, with slightly darkened club. Legs. Coxae yellow, fore coxa with punctiform black spot at the apex, mid and hind coxa with narrowly darkened apical margins. Trochanters yellow with dark ventral spots. Femora yellow, apex of hind femur narrowly darkened. Tibiae and tarsi yellow, hind tibia slightly darkened at base. Ratio of femur to tibia for fore, mid and hind legs: 1.02–1.16; 0.89–0.97; ...