Platypygus chrysanthemi Loew

Gharali, Babak, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Almeida, Jorge, 2013, World synopsis of described species of the genus Platypygus Loew (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Platypyginae), Zootaxa 3745 (2), pp. 199-242 : 208-210

Platypygus chrysanthemi Loew

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Platypygus chrysanthemi Loew, 1844: 127 . Loew, 1856: 31; 1869: 251, 252; 1873: 202. Stein, 1881: 491. Becker et al., 1903: 192. Kertész, 1909: 97. Verrall, 1909: 14. Bezzi, 1926: 260. Paramonov, 1926: 91; 1934: 20. Engel, 1933: 122. Austen, 1937: 181. Efflatoun, 1945: 54. Rohdendorf, 1964: 90. Painter & Painter, 1965: 415. Zaitzev, 1966: 187; 1989: 45. Hennig, 1969: 61. Mühlenberg, 1971: 20. Hull, 1973: 262. Theodor, 1983: 32. Evenhuis, 1991: 62; 2002: 25. Contini et al., 1995: 6. Hasbenli & Aktaş, 1995: 148. Sabrosky, 1999: 251. Koçak & Kemal, 2009: 49. El Hawagry, 2011: 137. Gharali et al., 2011: 27.

Cyrtosia chrysanthemi: Loew, 1869: 252 . Lapsus for Platypygus .

Platypygus chrysanthenis: Bezzi, 1924: 3 . Hall, 1975: 3. Incorrect subsequent spelling of chrysanthemi .

Platypygus crisanthemi: Paramonov, 1929: 201 . Incorrect subsequent spelling of chrysanthemi .

Platypygus chrysanthemis: Paramonov, 1939: 24 . Evenhuis, 1983: 467. Incorrect subsequent spelling of chrysanthemi .

Platypygus cyrhsanthemi: Hasbenli & Aktaş, 1995: 149 , 150. Incorrect subsequent spelling of chrysanthemi .

Material examined. Types: GREECE: 2 female syntypes P. chrysanthemi Lw./ Zool. Mus. Berlin (ZMHB); 1 female? syntype Rhodus Eber/ sec. typ. Loewii/ Platypygus chrysanthemi Lw. (OUMNH). Non-types: GREECE: 6 females, Lesvos, Ag. Georgious, S. of Mytiliini, 24 April 2001, D.J. Greathead (M. Barták); 3 females, Ezurum, Kireçli Geçidi, 2300 m, 27 July 2004, J. Dils, J. Faes (J. Dils). ISRAEL: 1 male, 5 females, Anabta, 25 April 1991, A. Freidberg; 1 female, Har Dov, 8 June 1983, A. Freidberg; 1 female, Golan, 5 km S Qnaitra, 15 May 1983, A. Freidberg; 2 females, Carmel, Haifa, 10 April 1947 [no collector]; 1 male, 1 female, Metula, 6 May 1987, A. Freidberg; 3 females, Tanure, 6 May 1985, A. Freidberg (all in TAU). JORDAN: 1 male, Wadi Sir near Amman, 20 April 1956, J. Kapperich (HNHM). SYRIA: 1 female, Mt. Hermon, 2000 m, 28 June 1974, A. Freidberg ( TAU). TURKEY: 1 male, 3 females (plus 1 male and female in copula), Foça, 60 km N. Izmir, 18 May–15 June 1968, F. François (KBIN); 1 female, Isparta, Kovada Gödü I-II arası, 1000 m, 11 May 1992, A. Hasbenli; 2 females, Antalya, Alanya Şeher Koyü, 310 m, 8 May 1992, A. Hasbenli (all in N. Evenhuis); 1 male, 3 females, Büyükiceli, Rt 400, 50 km SW Silifke, 12 May 2000, A. Freidberg, H. Ackerman, L. Freidman; 1 female, Termessos, 20 km NW Antalya, 400–700 m, 13 May 2000, A. Freidberg, H. Ackerman (all in TAU).

Notes on types. Loew (1844) described P. chrysanthemi based on an unknown number of specimens from “Rhodus und den Inseln des griechischen Archipels”. Five specimens (all from “Rhodus”) are logged into the ZMHB register book of accessions to the collection from 1858–1884. Of these original 5 accessioned syntypic specimens, Evenhuis (2002) found 4 syntypes in ZMHB when he visited there in October 1998. Two females of these syntypes were examined during this study. An additional female specimen in the Kowarz Collection in OUMNH labeled “Rhodus Eber. ” and “sec. typ. Loew” represents probable syntypic material and is part of a large number of type specimens that Loew exchanged with Kowarz to provide Kowarz with examples of many different Diptera genera [see details of the Kowarz collection in Pont (1997)].

Diagnostic features: Face yellow; frons yellow with a Y-shaped black mark medially ( Fig. 5 b); antennae completely black; occiput black except small posteriorly extended genal process yellow ( Fig. 5 a, b); pronotum yellow with black stripe dorsomedially as continuation of median mesonotal stripe ( Fig. 5 b); mesonotum with dense long and black hairs, with three black stripes, lateral stripes extend from posterior margin of postpronotal lobes to postalar calli, median stripe extends from anterior margin of mesonotum to scutellum ( Fig. 5 b); scutellum almost all yellow with a semicircular black mark basally; lateral black spot on mesonotum coalesced with lateral stripe ( Fig. 5 c); postpronotal lobes and postalar calli yellow; pleura yellow except lower part of katepisternum, meron, and spot on dorsal margin of anepisternum black; halter stem and knob yellow; r-m crossvein at about middle of cell dm, cell br longer than cell bm.

Distribution. Egypt, Greece, Israel (new record), Italy, Jordan (new record), Lebanon, Syria, Serbia, Turkey.

Remarks. Theodor (1983) illustrated the male and female genitalia of P. chrysanthemi . Based on the female genitalia ( Fig. 6 ) this species belongs to the group of species having two sclerites lateral to the genital orifice, which includes Platypygus titanomedea and P. americanus . The spermathecal reservoir ( Fig. 6 b) is somewhat similar in shape to P. titanomedea . In the male genitalia illustrated by Theodor (Figs. 58–59, page 32), the shape of the gonostylus and gonocoxa is somewhat similar to P. kurdorum ( Fig. 8 b) but the presence of vanes at the base of basal aedeagal apodeme is a distinct difference (Fig. 59, page 32).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Platypygus chrysanthemi female syntype: a — lateral view, b — dorsal view, c — dorsolateral view of mesonotum.

FIGURE 6. Female genitalia of Platypygus chrysanthemi: a — furca and ducts, b — spermathecal reservoir.

FIGURE 8. Genitalia of Platypygus kurdorum: a — epandrium (lateral view), b — gonocoxites (dorsal view), c — phallic complex (dorsal view), d — phallic complex (lateral view), e — female genitalia (furca and tubes), f — spermathecal reservoir.