Enlinia fimbriata Robinson 1969

Enlinia fimbriata

MALE.—Length 0.7 mm; wing 0.8 mm by 0.34 mm. Front about twice as broad as high, metallic bluish with blackish pollen; face narrowed below, eyes contiguous in lower half, anterior eye facets enlarged. Palpus and proboscis dark. Antenna black, segment 3 blunt, arista only slightly longer than face.

Mesoscutum shining metallic bluish or greenish with slight brownish pollen, pleura more brown; setae dark with pale reflections; 6 pairs of small acrostichals; 7 or 8 pairs of dorsocentrals, hind pair rather long; scutellum hind margin broadly and evenly rounded, bristles nearer to sides than middle.

Legs dark brown with dark setae. Forecoxa with small dark hairs anteriorly; forefemur (Figure 153) and middle femur with a small slender erect seta anteroventrally at base; foretibia (Figure 153) with a long slender erect setae ventrally at tip; hind tibia with 2 or 3 small indistinct dorsals. Foretarsus (Figure 153) with segments 1 and 2 rather compressed, 2nd pointed on distal hind corner, 3 flattened with curving anterior margin bearing many stout hairs, distinct black erect seta on hind margin, segments 4 and especially 5 somewhat flattened, lengths of segments from base as 8-4-4-2-4; middle tarsus as 8-6-4-3-5; hind tarsus as 8-8-6-4-5.

Wing (Figure 151) rather broadly oval, with prominently rounded anal margin, wing clear; vein 2 hardly curved, very close to costa; veins 3 and 4 rather straight, 3rd ending slightly before wing tip; crossvein about half as long as last of vein 5. Knob of halter black.

Abdomen (Figure 152) about as long as thorax, cylindrical to somewhat compressed, brown with blackish pollen above; sternite 3 with rather long slender erect projection from middle of hind margin. Hypopygium small, partially immersed in tip of preabdomen, brown; lamellae grayish, large, strap-shaped with constricted tip, bearing many long black curved or slightly sinuous setae along outer margin, inner margin with many shorter more slender curved setae and a small pubescent tuft near the base; inner appendages hooklike, projecting forward nearly to projection on sternite 3.

FEMALE.—Similar to male but face distinct to mouth, lower half as wide as antennal segment 1; femora and foretibia without erect ventral setae; foretarsus plain, lengths of segments from base as 7-3-3-2-4.

TYPE-DATA.—Holotype ♂ and allotype ♀ from Mexico: Chiapas, near Ixtapan, on wet rock face by road, in ravine above river, 23 May 1963, H. Robinson (USNM 70316). Paratypes: same data as holotype, 18 ♂ and 1 ♀; Chiapas, about 10 km south of Pichucalco, wet ledges by road, 24 May 1963, 4 ♂ and 1 ♀; all collected by H. Robinson.