Plectanocnema nudipes (Becker)

Disney, R. Henry L., 2004, Genera resembling Beckerina Malloch (Diptera: Phoridae), Zootaxa 518 (1), pp. 1-28 : 21

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scientific name	Plectanocnema nudipes (Becker)
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Plectanocnema nudipes (Becker) View in CoL

( Figs 21–23 View FIGURES 21–23 )

Phora nudipes Becker, 1901: 66 View in CoL .

Aphiochaeta nudipes (Becker) . Strobl, 1910: 123.

Plectanocnema nudipes ( Becker, 1901) View in CoL . Schmitz, 1926: 75.

In his Fig. 215, Schmitz (1956) illustrated an extra pair of dorsolateral glands behind abdominal tergite 5 of the female. These are associated with the modified T6, which is greatly shortened but expanded laterally and disrupted in the middle ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 21–23 ). These glands are not the laterally displaced dorsal abdominal glands but a novel development peculiar to this genus. The normal, but unusually large, DAGs are shown in Fig. 22 View FIGURES 21–23 . They are restricted to the female. Male hypopygium as Fig. 21 View FIGURES 21–23 and hind tibia as Fig. 23 View FIGURES 21–23 . The species is Holarctic in distribution.

References

Becker, T. (1901) Die Phoriden. Abhandlungen der zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 1, 1 - 100.

Schmitz, H. (1926) Neue Gattungen und Arten europaischer Phoriden. Encyclopedie Entomologique B, II. Dipteres, 2, 73 - 85 (1925).

Schmitz, H. (1956) Phoridae. In: Lindner, E. (editor), Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 4 (33) (Lieferung 187), 369 - 416.

Strobl, G. (1910) Die Dipteren von Steiermark. V. Teil. Mitteilungen des Nnaturwissenschaftlichen Vereins fur Steiermark, Graz, 46, 45 - 293 (1909).

Figures

FIGURES 21–23. Plectanocnema nudipes. (21) male hypopygium, left face; (22) female, dorsal abdominal glands and the left dorsolateral gland (both stippled) that discharge between tergites 5 and 6 (T6 being vestigial in the middle third); (23) male, anterior face of hind tibia. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.