Paramenia angustifrons Crosskey, 1965

Colless, D. H., 1998, Morphometrics in the genus Amenia and revisionary notes on the Australian Ameniinae (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with the description of eight new species, Records of the Australian Museum 50 (1), pp. 85-123 : 113

Paramenia angustifrons Crosskey

I have seen two of the the three specimens from Highvale (14 miles NW of Brisbane ), Queensland, that Crosskey (1965) thought might represent a new species, largely on the basis of head shape. Using my own system of measurement (which I believe to be more accurate) I find little difference between these specimens and typical Paramenia angustifrons , with which they cluster closely in a PCA ordination (not shown) .

The range of the species is shown in Fig. 27 . It seems restricted to the tropics and subtropics.

Figures

Figure 27. Distributions of Paramenia spp.: circlesangustifrons; triangles-semiauriceps. Records from (simply) "South Australia" are provisional and shown, for want of better, as from Adelaide.