Phytomia fusca Hull
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94D2C-FF96-FFD5-0EAD-31A9FE59FCFD |
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Plazi |
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Phytomia fusca Hull |
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Phytomia fusca Hull View in CoL
( Figs 15 View FIGURES 11–20 , 24 View FIGURES 21–28 , 55 View FIGURES 49–60 , 77 View FIGURES 73–84 )
Phytomia fusca Hull, 1941: 329 View in CoL
Material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀, MADAGASCAR, Tananarive Dist. , Moramanga, Oriental Forest, May- September 1938, C. Lamberton ( ANSP) . PARATYPES: MADAGASCAR, same as holotype , 3♀ ( ANSP) ; 5♀ ( CNC) . Other material: MADAGASCAR, 1♀, 22km NW Andasibe, Perinet, Torotorofotsy , 23–25.X.2014, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & R. Harin’Hala ( BMSA) ; 2♀, Andringitra, Ambalavao, Anjavidilava , 17–21.I.1958, B. Stuckenberg ( NMSA) ; 3♀, Marojejy , 11km NW Manantenina, Antsiranana, 25.X–3.XI.1996, E. Quinter ( AMNH) ; 2♀, Ma- rojejy, tributary Manantenina River , 10km NW Manantenina, Antsiranana, 15–22.X.1996, E. Quinter & Nguyen ( AMNH) ; 1♀ [no locality] ( KBIN) .
Body size. Body length (n=10): 12.2–16.2 mm. Wing length (n=10): 9.7–12.5 mm.
Redescription. FEMALE ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 11–20 ). Head ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 21–28 ). Eye bare; dichoptic, facets equal size. Frons dark ground colour, with dense golden yellow pollinosity; covered with dense pile of medium long golden yellow pile; rugose area shining yellow-orange to dark orange, occupying one-third of entire width and equal in height to 1.5 times length of ocellar triangle. Face as frons, ventral part around oral margin and on gena shining black with dispersed greyish pollinosity and without distinct pile; facial tubercle oval shaped, weakly developed. Vertex with orangebrown pubescence and dark yellow medium long pile; continued along occiput, anterior margin in ventral two-thirds conspicuously silvery pollinosity, ventrally with dispersed pale pile. Antennal segments golden yellow to orange; arista dark yellow, in basal two-thirds with medium long pile equal to half the width of pedicel.
Thorax. Scutum black ground colour, with dense greyish brown pollinosity, anteriorly more greyish; covered with dense pile of long golden yellow to orange pilosity. Scutellum rufous, with long orange to rufous pilosity. Pleural sclerites black, covered with dense pile of long black pile except meron, anterior part of katepisternum and anterior anepisternum; dorsal margin of posterior anepisternum broadly with orange pilosity.
Legs. Predominantly black, except tarsal segment where yellow-orange. Fore and mid leg, femora with dense short black pilosity, posteriorly longer; tibia silvery in basal half dorsally, ventrally less so; with short black pilosity, except in silvery part where pale. Hind leg, femur dorsally and ventrally conspicuous dense black pilosity, in basal ventral two-thirds longer and more dispersed; silvery part on tibia restricted to dorsal side and for basal fifth at most, dorsally and ventrally with conspicuous dense black pilosity over entire length, except in silvery part where pale.
Wing ( Fig. 55 View FIGURES 49–60 ). Mainly hyaline; slightly fumose at base and in apical part of cell c. More distinct brownish patch, consisting of microtrichia, in medial part of wing anteriorly from apex of vein Sc, posteriorly along medial part of cell r 1, basal part of cell r 2+3, and into cell r where it reaches the junction of vein M with crossvein bm-cu. Calypters pale yellowish; with fringe of pale orange pile.
Abdomen ( Fig. 77 View FIGURES 73–84 ). Mainly shining black, partially with black pollinosity; with pair of large semi-circular orange maculae on tergum 2; no distinct bullae. Pilosity short to medium long dispersed black; pilosity on maculae and along anterior margin of tergum 2 denser golden-yellow. Sterna shining black; with widely dispersed long black pile.
MALE. Unknown.
Distribution. Madagascar.
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