Milichiella sp. B
Specimens have been collected flying in hot sunshine, near a Croton bush (Euphorbiaceae).
Differs from congeners in the combination of brown microtomentose mesonotum, calypter light brown with brown margin, yellowish basitarsi, silvery microtomentose male T2-5 and shape of surstylus.
Male coloration and vestiture: frons subshiny black, ocellar triangle and orbital plates shiny black, lunule brown, basoflagellomere black, face brown microtomentose, palpus black; thorax with mesonotum brown microtomentose, scutellum and pleura brown microtomentose except for shiny spots on an- and katepisternum, wing hyaline, veins light brown, brown spot at tip of vein R1 absent, calypter light brown with brown margin, halter black, legs black except for yellowish basitarsi; abdomen with T2-5 silvery microtomentose.
Morphology. Head: frons with 2 orbital and 2 frontal setae, anterior frontal seta medioclinate. In males frons 2.3x as wide at posterior margin than at base of antenna, arista about 4.7x as long as basoflagellomere wide, pubescence on arista very short, posterior eye margin with notch (6oc) and emargination (2oc).
Thorax: 2 dc, 1 prsc, 1 pprn, 2 prs, 2 keps setae, posterior prsc as long as posterior dc, seta between posterior prsc and posterior dc present. Wing with vein R4+5 and M1 converging, and ultimate section of vein M1 2x as long as penultimate section. Fore femur strongly setulose, tibial organ absent.
Male abdomen: posteromedial triangular projection of T1 into T2 present. Tergal chaetotaxy: T2-5 posterior margin with one row of setulae, T2 posterolaterally with more rows, T2 without tuft of long setae. S5 1.2x as long as wide, 1.8x as long and 3.3x as wide as S4, roughly triangular shape, setulose with more setula at posterior margin. Male genitalia with apical seta on cercus longer than epandrial setae, 1 seta on subepandrial plate, surstylus 0.6x as long as epandrium high, bent posteriorly, dilated apically (1.8x), 2.5x as long as wide, structure of lateral surface smooth, medial surface with few setulae along anterior margin, sensilla along margin.
Body length: 2.5-3.5 mm; wing length: 2.8 mm.