Enlinia hirtipes Robinson 1969

Enlinia hirtipes

MALE.—Length 0.8 mm; wing 0.9 mm by 0.35 mm. Front with some greenish color; face narrowed below, eyes essentially contiguous in lower half, anterior eye facets enlarged. Palpus and proboscis dark. Antenna dark, all segments short and broad, segment 3 blunt, arista half again as long as face.

Thorax brownish with some green color above; setae dark with pale reflections; about 5 pairs of acrostichals; 7 pairs of dorsocentrals, hind pairs longer; scutellum hind margin evenly rounded, bristles as near sides as middle.

Legs yellow or with femora, tibiae, or even tarsi often rather brown; setae mostly dark. Forecoxa with sparse pale brownish hairs anteriorly; forefemur (Figure 157) with long slender erect ventral seta at base, other shorter ventrals in basal half, a few short erect stiff setae distally on posteroventral surface and many very long pale curving hairs along anteroventral surface; middle femur (Figure 158) with many rather long erect black ventral setae along basal half, anteroventrally with 2 or more very long stiff black setae in basal half and 3 or 4 slender flexuous setae near tip; hind femur plain; foretibia (Figure 157) with long erect slender ventral seta at tip; middle tibia (Figure 158) distinctly shorter than femur, with 10 or more rather long stiff black ventral setae along basal two-thirds, very long slender almost straight setae anteriorly and a few very long slender curved hairs posteriorly; hind tibia with 2 or 3 small indistinct dorsals. Foretarsus (Figure 157) with segments 1 and 2 rather broad and flat, 3 small and curved, 4 and 5 small and only slightly flattened, lengths of segments from base as 6-3-3-3-4; middle tarsus as 6-4-4-4-5, sometimes segments tightly folded; hind tarsus as 7-7-6-5-4.

Wing (Figure 160) elliptical; vein 2 slightly and evenly arched, curving slightly forward at tip, remaining closer to costa than to vein 3; vein 3 ending just before tip of wing; crossvein about one-half to three-fourths as long as last of vein 5. Knob of halter brown.

Abdomen (Figure 159) about as long as thorax; sternite 3 with slender erect projection from near middle of hind margin. Hypopygium small, capping tip of preabdomen, brown; with pair of small pale-brownish short-triangular lamellae below which have a few black apical setae; inner appendages long, hyaline, bladelike, in resting position longer pair extending forward past projection on sternite 3.

FEMALE.—Possible female seen with head lacking, legs plain, lengths of segments of foretarsus from base as 8-2-2-2-3.

TYPE-DATA.—Holotype ♂ from Mexico: Chiapas, about 10 km south of Pichucalco, on wet roadside ledge, 24 May 1963, H. Robinson (USNM 70314). Allotype ♀ : Oaxaca, above Rio Valle Nacional, 14 May 1963. Paratypes: same data as holotype, 1 ♂; same locality as allotype, 14–16 May 1963, 14 ♂; all collected by H. Robinson.