Styringomyia terraereginae ALEXANDER

Theischinger, Günther, D, Zacariah & Martin, John, 2018, The genus Styringomyia LOEW in Australia (Diptera: Tipuloidea: Limoniidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2), pp. 1587-1633 : 1595

Styringomyia terraereginae ALEXANDER ( Figs 26-29 )

Styringomyia terraereginae ALEXANDER, 1924: 182 . Holotype ♂: Australia, North Queensland, Gordonvale , ex scrub, November 1920, A.P. Dodd (AC).

M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d. Queensland: holotype (see Figs 26-29 ).

The most valuable diagnostic characters specified in the original Description (ALEXANDER 1924) are: "Antennae with the first segment black, the remainder of the organ more brownish. Legs with the coxae black; trochanters brown; femora black, the fore femora paler at base, the posterior femora with a broad china-white ring before the equally broad black apex; tibiae and tarsi black, the extreme bases of the segments narrowly paler. Wings with the cephalic distal portion strongly infumed, a broad but incomplete hyaline band before the cord".

D i s c u s s i o n Styringomyia terraereginae appears most similar to S. aterrima nov.sp. Diagnostic for male S. terraereginae are the white-banded metafemora and the basally distinctly expanded, apically very thin apical spine of the gonocoxites versus uniformly black metafemora and the normal shape of the apical spine on the gonocoxites in S. aterrima .

Figures

Figs 26-29: Styringomyia terraereginae ALEXANDER, holotype male: (26) wing; (27) terminalia, ventral; (28) leg; (29) label.