Plectanocnema nudipes (Becker)

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

Plectanocnema nudipes (Becker)

( Figs 21–23)

Phora nudipes Becker, 1901: 66 .

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

Plectanocnema nudipes ( Becker, 1901) . 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). 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. They are restricted to the female. Male hypopygium as Fig. 21 and hind tibia as Fig. 23. The species is Holarctic in distribution.