Milichiella maculatiradii Brake, 2009

Male coloration and vestiture: frons shiny black, ocellar triangle and orbital plates shiny black, lunule brown, basoflagellomere black, face black microtomentose, palpus black; thorax with mesonotum subshiny black, scutellum and pleura shiny, wing hyaline, veins brown, brown spot at tip of vein R1 present, calypter hyaline with brown margin and brown hairs, halter black, legs black except for yellow tips of mid and hind tibia and tarsi; abdomen with T2-4 brown microtomentose except for shiny posterolateral corners, T5 shiny except for brown microtomentose anterior margin.
Morphology. Head: frons with 2 orbital and 2 frontal setae, anterior frontal seta medioclinate. In males frons 2.2x as wide at posterior margin than at base of antenna, arista about 4.0x as long as basoflagellomere wide, pubescence on arista very short, posterior eye margin with slight notch (2oc) and slight emargination (1oc).
Thorax: 1 dc, 1 prsc, 1 pprn, 1 prs, 2 keps setae, posterior prsc less than 0.8x as long as posterior dc, seta between posterior prsc and posterior dc absent. Wing with vein R4+5 and M1 converging (2.0), and ultimate section of vein M1 2.7x as long as penultimate section. Fore femur normal setulose, tibial organ present.
Male abdomen: posteromedial triangular projection of T1 into T2 weak. Tergal chaetotaxy: T2 anterolateral corner with 2-3 lines of setae, T2-5 setulose. S5 ~1.5x as long as wide, ~1.4x as long and 1.2x as wide as S4, setulose, thinner setulae at posterior margin. Male genitalia with apical seta on cercus shorter than longest epandrial setae, 1 seta on subepandrial plate, surstylus 1.5x as long as epandrium high, dilated apically (1.7x), 8.8x as long as wide, structure of lateral surface smooth, medial surface without setulae, some longer sensilla on distal half.
Special characters: labella 1.5x as long as palpus.