A new species of Tipula (Lunatipula) from Turkey, close to T. (L.) imbecilla Loew (Diptera: Tipulidae)

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by  Hasan Koç

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Anew species of Tipula (Lunatipula) from Turkey,
close to T. (L.) imbecilla Loew (Diptera: Tipulidae)
HasanKoç&PjotrOosterbroek
Koç,H.&Oosterbroek,P.2005:AnewspeciesofTipula(Lunatipula)fromTur-
key,closetoT.(L.)imbecillaLoew(Diptera:Tipulidae).—Entomol.Fennica
16:19–22.
Adescription,withfigures,ispresentedofTipula(Lunatipula)cillibemasp.n.,a
speciesfromtheprovinceMugla,SouthwesternTurkey.Thespeciesiscloseto
T.(L.)imbecillaLoew,fromareasnearRhodos.Bothspeciesareassignedtothe
macroselenegroupsensuMannheims(1965),andtheirpositionwithinthisspe-
ciesgroupisdiscussed.
H. Koç, Mugla University, Science and Arts Faculty, Department of Biology,
48000Kötekli/Mugla,Turkey;E-mail:[email protected]
P.Oosterbroek,DepartmentofEntomology,ZoologicalMuseum,Universityof
Amsterdam,PlantageMiddenlaan64,1018DHAmsterdam,TheNetherlands;
E-mail:[email protected]
Received8April2004,accepted27August2004.
1.Introduction
N,29°28’E),04.V.2002,1,155ma.s.l.Paratype:
5 (cid:1)(cid:1), same data as holotype. Holotype and 4
Atotalof132speciesofTipulidae,ofwhich53 paratypes preserved at the Department of Bio-
speciesareendemic,isknownfromTurkey(Koç logy, Science and Arts Faculty, Mugla Univer-
&Oosterbroek2001,Serçe&Koç2004).Turkey sity; 1 paratype at the Department of Entomol-
is also the type locality of 66 species. Material ogy,ZoologicalMuseum,UniversityofAmster-
thatincludedthenewspeciesofthemacrocelene dam.
group, reported here, was collected by the first Description. Male: Body length 13–15 mm;
authorinasiaticTurkey,intheprovinceofMugla. antennallength5–6mm;winglength15–17mm.
Specimenswerecollectedclosetoastreamina Headlightgray,yellowishbrownalongmiddle.
mixed forest. Plants found in this habitat were Rostrum largely yellowish brown, a little light
Platanus orientalis, Pinus brutia, Quercus sp., grayatbaseandapex;nasusrangingfromdistinct
Rosa sp., Rubus sp., Juncus sp., Juniperus sp., tosmall,withafewlonggoldenhairsattheapex.
Populussp.,Dryopterussp.andTrifoliumsp. Firstfourpalpalsegmentsyellowishbrown,ter-
minal segment darker brown. Antenna 13-seg-
mented, scape and pedicel yellowish brown,
2.Speciesdescription
scape sometimes light gray, flagellar segments
brownish black; antenna of moderate length, if
Tipula(Lunatipula)cillibemasp.n.(Fig.1) bentbackwardsmoreorlessreachingtobaseof
Typematerial.Holotype:1(cid:1),Turkey,Mugla, halter; flagellar segments cylindrical with base
Fethiye,23kmalongroadtoKorkuteli(36°46’ slightlythickened,apicalsegmentsmallbutdis-
20 Koç&Oosterbroek (cid:127) ENTOMOL.FENNICAVol.16
Fig.1.Tipula(Luna-
tipula)cillibemasp.n.
–a.Hypopygium,lateral
view.–b.Tergite9,dor-
salview.–c.Leftouter
andinnergonostyle,lat-
eralview.–d.Hindmar-
ginofsternite8andap-
pendageofsternite9,
ventralandrearviews.
tinct, longest verticils somewhat shorter than ratedfromanteriorpart.Appendagesofsternite9
flagellarsegments. (Fig. 1d) short and broad, provided with long
Pronotum and scutum dark grayish brown, golden hairs apically and along inner margin.
scutumwithfiveyellowishbrownstripes;lateral Hind margin of sternite 8 (Fig. 1d) straight and
partsofthoraxgrayishblack.Halterwithyellow- withouthairs,appendages,orincision.
ishbrownstemandwhitish,partlybrownishgray Female:notknown.
knob.Winglightbrowntinged,lunarmarkreach- Etymology.Thenamecillibemaisananagram
ingintodiscalcell;stigmajustbeyondlunarmark ofimbecilla,tobetreatedasanouninapposition.
not markedly distinct, light brown; petiole of
veinsM1andM2short,atmostaboutaslongas
3.Discussion
height of discal cell. Coxae grayish brown; tro-
chanters,femoraandtibiaeyellowishbrown,tips
of femora and tibiae somewhat darkened; tibial Thenewspeciescillibemaismostprobably the
spursdistinct,spurformula1.2.2;tarsalsegments sister species of imbecilla Loew. The latter was
yellowishbrowntobrownishblack,clawswith- describedfromtheGreekislandRhodosbyLoew
outsecondarytooth. (1869)afterbothsexes,withoutfurtherinforma-
Abdomenyellowishbrownwithnarrowdark tiononthelocality,date,ornumberofspecimens.
browntoblackdorsalstripeontergites2–6and Ofthetypeseries,Mannheims(1965)couldtrace
narrowly darkenend lateral margins. Sternites only one male, preserved in the Zoologische
brownishwithblackenedhindmargins. Staatssammlung,München.Since1869,noother
Hypopygium(Fig.1a)notdistinctlyswollen, specimensofimbecillaLoewhavebecomeavail-
yellowishtoreddishbrown.Hindmarginofter- able. It thus was a pleasant surprise to find the
gite 9 (Fig. 1b) widely V-shaped with broadly presentspeciesinour2002materialinMugla,a
roundedlateralcorners.Outergonostyle(Fig.1c) Turkish province just opposite Rhodos. Exami-
apicallyverybroadandprovidedwithlonghairs. nation of the single currently known male of
Anterior part of inner gonostyle (Fig. 1c) with imbecilla Loew showed that the new species
distinct beak and evenly rounded dorsal crest; cillibema is indeed very close, but different
posteriorpartsimple,evenlyrounded,andsepa- enoughtobedescribedasanewspecies.
ENTOMOL.FENNICAVol.16 (cid:127) AnewTipulaspeciesfromTurkey 21
Fig.2.T.(L.)imbecilla
[afterMannheims
(1965)].–a.Tergite9,
dorsalview.–b.Left
outerandinnergono-
style,lateralview.–c.
Hindmarginofsternite8,
oblique-ventralview.
Thedifferencesbetweenthetwospeciesare imbecillaLoew,andcarensTheischinger;allthe
foundinthegeneralcolouration(imbecillalight, other species either have (bushes of) long hairs
cillibemadarkcoloured),thenasus(imbecillaab- along the posterior margin of sternite 8 [Mann-
sent,cillibemapresent),theabdomen(imbecilla heims(1963):Lunatipula“fasciculatae”],orthe
uniformlybrownwithoutdorsalstripe,cillibema posteriormarginofsternite8isprovidedwithtwo
with adistinct darkened dorsal stripe), and sev- socketsthatbearapicalbristles(Lunatipula“spi-
eralhypopygialcharacters.Incillibema,thelat- nosae”). T. (L.) imbecilla and carens have been
eral corners of tergite 9 are more pronounced assigned to the macroselene group by Mann-
(Fig.1b;imbecilla,Fig.2a);thedorsalcrestofthe heims (1965) and Theischinger (1987). This
inner gonostyle is apically lower (Fig. 1c; im- grouppresently containssome30species, most
becillaFig.2b);theappendagesofsternite9are ofwhicharedistributedintheeasternpartofthe
broader and more differentiated and there are Mediterraneanregion.Thegroupbelongstothe
marked differences in the ventral part of the Lunatipulaspinosae,butwithinthegroupthereis
hypopygiumbetween theseappendages and the a tendency toward reduction of the two bristle-
hindmarginofsternite8(Fig.1d;imbecilla,Fig. bearingsockets(asseeninspeciessuchascretis
2c). Mannheims, selenis Loew, and macciana Ed-
Apartfromthesedifferencesitmustbecon- wards), culminating in the presence of weaker
cludedthatbothspeciesareverycloselyrelated. bristlesonly(asinpelidneMannheims;Fig.3a),
Thegeneralshapeofthehypopygiumanditssep- ornoornamentationatall.
aratepartsareofthesamestructure.Averyspe- T. (L.) imbecilla and cillibema have some
cial character shared by both species is the ab- characters in common with pelidne, such as the
senceofanyornamentationatthehindmarginof widely V-shaped hind margin of tergite 9 (Fig.
sternite8.Ofall302speciesofTipula,subgenus 3b). However, the inner and outer gonostyli of
Lunatipula,knownfromtheWesternPalaearctic, pelidneareclearlydifferent(Fig.3c).Acharacter
thischaractersisfoundonly incillibemasp. n., foundinallthreespeciesistheabsenceofthesec-
Fig.3.T.(L.)pelidne[af-
terMannheims(1965)].–
a.Hindmarginofsternite
8,ventralandrearviews.
–b.Tergite9,dorsal
view.–c.Leftouterand
innergonostyle,lateral
view.
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