Lamprolonchaea photinia McAlpine.

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Lamprolonchaea photinia McAlpine. ( Figures 9-12 ).

Lamprolonchaea photinia McAlpine, 1964a: 699 .

Diagnosis. Summary of original description with updated terminology (after McAlpine, 1964).

Male. All basal tarsomeres pale on basal three-fourths or more; remaining tarsomeres progressively darker brown. Calypteres greyish-brown with dark-brown margins and fringes. Male terminalia; phallus very long, distiphallus 8-9x as long as base; apical half twisted one-half turn to the left; apex asymmetrical; somewhat bulbous, but appearing as if the sides were broken out of the bulb.

Type material. Holotype ♂ (no. 67446, USNM), allotype ♀ and 3 ♂ paratypes, VANUATU: Efate , Vila, viii.1950, N. L. H. Krauss, 1 ♂.

Paratype: Espiritu Santo, Segond Channel, viii. 1950, N. L. H. Krauss 1♂.

Additional records. VANUATU: Efate, Vila, 0-5m, ii.1970, 4♂; Vila, 0-100m, ii.1970, 1♂; Vila 0-100m, ii.1977, Vila, 1♂; 0-100m, xi.1978, 1♂, all leg. N. L. H. Krauss; Port-Vila, 0-100m, iii.1980, N. L. H. Krauss, 1♂. Epi, Vaemali, Malaise Trap, 8.viii.1967, J. & M. Sedlacek, 3♂; Vaemali, 100-150m 6-10. viii.1987, J. & M. Sedlacek, 1♂. Erromango, Numpon, 150m, 3.iii.1964, 1♂; 250m, 3.iii.1964, R. Straatman, 2♂; Dillons Bay, 0m, 29.ii.1964, N. L. H. Krauss, 1♂. Shepherd Group, Tongariki: 29.viii.1979, G. M. Nishida, 1♂. Tanna, Lenakel, 0-200m, i.1981, N. L. H. Krauss, 2♂ (all BPBM).

Figures

FIGURES 9-12. Lamprolonchaea photinia McAlpine, 1964. 9. Epandrium and associated structures, lateral view. 10. Phallus, lateral view. 11. Surstylar plate, ventral view. 12. Surstylus, medial surface.