Paraplatytropesa grandicornis, Colless, 1998

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 : 103

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.0067-1975.50.1998.1275

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4653043

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9A5987F8-162F-FFE2-FE84-F7F3F8D4F6FF

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scientific name

Paraplatytropesa grandicornis
status

sp. nov.

Paraplatytropesa grandicornis View in CoL n.sp.

Holotype: male; 14°49'S 125°50'E, Mining Camp, Mitchell Plateau, WesternAustralia, 9-19 May 1983, LD. Naumann & J. Cardale, ex ethanol. ANIC No. 6152. GoogleMaps

Other specimens examined. WESTERN AUSTRALIA: 1 0, 2¥ ¥, as for holotype; 14°35'S 125°45'E, Lone Dingo, Mitchell Plateau GoogleMaps , Western Australia, 9-19 May 1983, LD. Naumann & J. Cardale, 10 .

Generally resembling P. rieki , with significant attributes as follows:

Male. Head ( Figs 20, 21 View Figures 20 , 21 ). Carina short, narrow, not confluent with epistome, not protruding past antennal segment 3 in lateral view, dark brown with light silvery pollinosity. Facial ridge with setulae only close to vibrissa. Frons relatively broad as compared with head width, but rather short ( Table 3 View Table 3 ), with 2 strong proclinate frontoorbitals and 1 reclinate. Antennal segment 3 short, only as long as that of female. Vibrissae set a little above level of epistome margin, conspicuously long and strong, incurved, decussate. Genae, parafacials, parafrontals, and postorbits with silver pollen; gena conspicuously short, truncate ( Table 3 View Table 3 ). Thorax. Propleuron with several setulae. Scutellar setulae as for P. tropicalis . Lower calypter with exposed portion dark. Lappet hairs of posterior spiracle 1-2 in number, inconspicuous. Legs. Fore tibia without p seta. Mid tibia with 2-3 strong a setae. Postero-dorsal strip of hind coxa setulose. Wing. Setulae on basal node of R 3+4 extending half or more the distance to r-m (in other species, largely confined to the swollen base of the vein). Abdomen. T 1+2 dark purplish; T 3 metallic blue with median dark vitta and apical dark band, and conspicuous, pale silvery lateral patches (in posterior view) extending almost to midline; T 4 similarto T 3, but pale patches less conspicuous or absent; T 5 metallic purplish. S3 with only 4-6 long hairs, S4 without any. Genitalia practically identical with those of P. tropicalis .

Female. Generally similar to male.

Distribution ( Fig. 26 View Figure 26 , p. 108). Known only from the Kimberleys, Western Australia.

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Calliphoridae

SubFamily

Ameniinae

Tribe

Ameniini

Genus

Paraplatytropesa

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