Mycomya minutata Edwards, 1931

Mycomya minutata belongs to the subgenus Mycomyopsis. Edwards (1931b: Fig. 5)  described the male hypopygium of this small species. He stated that M. minutata ”belongs to the same group as M. fimbriata Mg. (Europe and N. India), M. unipectinata Edw. (Ceylon) and M. plagiata Tonn. (New Zealand, etc.)”. However, M. fimbriata (Meigen, 1818) belongs to another subgenus (Neomycomya, see Väisänen, 1984a), whereas both M. minutata and M. unipectinata Edwards, 1927 clearly belong to subgenus Mycomyopsis. Mycomya minutata differs from the other species of the subgenus in the shape and setosity of the tergal lateral appendage and the gonostylus, as well as in the absence of the sternal submedian filament. The tergal lateral appendage resembles those in M. ducula Väisänen (2013c: fig. 8C) and M. jeti Väisänen (2013c: fig.10C). The latter species differs from M. minutata in having a short sternal submedian filament (Väisänen 2013c: figs. 10B, 10D). M. ducula is similar to M. minutata in having a short gonostylus with a spur, and lacking the sternal submedian filament (Väisänen 2013c: figs. 8B, 8D). However, the setae of the tergal lateral appendage of M. ducula are in two separate groups, i.e. in the basal half and the apex (Väisänen 2013c: fig. 8C), whereas in M. minutata the whole tergal lateral appendage is sparsely covered by setae.

Vaisanen, 2014