Amblypsilopus stuckenbergi ( Vanschuytbroeck, 1957 )

Grichanov, Igor Ya., 2021, Eleven new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) and a key to the species of Madagascar and adjacent islands, European Journal of Taxonomy 755 (1), pp. 47-87 : 83

Amblypsilopus stuckenbergi ( Vanschuytbroeck, 1957)

Sciapus stuckenbergi Vanschuytbroeck, 1957: 3 . Type locality: Madagascar: Perinet.

Amblypsilopus stuckenbergi – Bickel 1994: 373.

Diagnosis

Amblypsilopus stuckenbergi forms a group of Madagascan species with narrow male face and relatively short antennae. Body length 3–4 mm. Face silvery white pollinose, in middle half as wide as face under antennae; clypeus slightly bulging; thorax and abdomen mostly yellow; wing venation unmodified; wing anal lobe and vein absent; legs including coxae yellow; segment 3 of fore tarsus two times as long as segment 2, with 1–2 long dorsoapical setae, longer than segment 4; segments 4 and 5 of fore tarsus flattened; fore femur, tibia and tarsomere (from first to fifth) length ratio: 13/16/25/5/10.5/1/1 (other legs have no diagnostic characters); cercus with 2 long dorsal setae.

Material examined

Holotype MADAGASCAR • ♂; Périnet ; Dec. 1955; M.B. Stuckenberg leg.; NMSA.

Distribution

Madagascar (Alaotra-Mangoro).