Limassolla pygalis Ran & Song 2026, sp. nov.

Limassolla pygalis Ran & Song, sp. nov. Figs 1 a – d, 2 A – J Description. Body milky yellow (Figs 1 a – d). Anterior margin of crown sharply produced, crown length exceeding interocular width (Fig. 1 c). Eyes brownish, suffused with milky white; vertex with three black spots, each encircled by a reddish area (Fig. 1 c). Pronotum brownish yellow, bearing four black spots; scutellum with one large black spot at base (Fig. 1 c). Face milky yellow above lower eye margin, milky white below (Fig. 1 d). Forewing with irregular orange maculae; base and area adjacent to the junction of the 1 st apical cell and corium dark brown (Fig. 2 I). Hind wing hyaline, anal vein branched apically (Fig. 2 J). Male abdominal apodemes extending to the posterior margin of the 4 th sternite (Fig. 2 D). Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe with dorsal and ventral pygofer appendages (Fig. 2 A, B). Subgenital plate with one long macroseta subbasally, apex attenuated, furnished with numerous microsetae (Fig. 2 A). Aedeagal shaft gradually narrowed apically (Fig. 2 E); gonopore subapical, on ventral surface. Preatrium slightly longer than aedeagal shaft (Fig. 2 H). Connective Y-shaped (Fig. 2 F). Style with foot-like apex (Fig. 2 G). Specimens examined. Holotype: • ♂; Thailand: Chaiyaphum Province, Pa Hin Ngam National Park, Dipterocarp forest, 15°38.099'N, 101°23.921'E, 698 m, Malaise trap, 1–7 ii 2007, Katae Sa-nog & Buakaw Adnafai leg.; GZNU-2007-T 16-01. Paratypes: • 10 ♂♂, same data as holotype; GZNU-2007-T 16-02 to 11. Measurements. Male body length 2.5–2.6 mm (including wings). Remarks. This new species is similar to Limassolla erythromaculata (Ramakrishnan & Menon, 1972), differing mainly in the presence of a dorsal pygofer appendage (Fig. 2 A, B). Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the pygofer lobe bearing both dorsal and ventral pygofer appendages.