Pipinnipons kroeberi Winterton

Shaun L., Winterton, 2011, Revision of the stiletto fly genera Acupalpa Kroeber and Pipinnipons Winterton (Diptera, Therevidae, Agapophytinae) using cybertaxonomic methods, with a key to Australasian genera, ZooKeys 95, pp. 29-79 : 58-59

Pipinnipons kroeberi Winterton Figs 24 E–F 28

Pipinnipons kroeberi Winterton, 2001: 205.

Type material.

Holotypemale,AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Warrumbungle N.P., Buckleys Creek, 1.7 km N Camp Blackman, 23.xii.1992 M. E. Irwin (MEI027580) (ANIC). Paratypes. AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: female, Warrumbungle N.P., Browns Creek, 2.5 km N Woolshed, 13.i.1994, M. E. Irwin (MEI039303) (ANIC). Queensland: male, female, Lake Broadwater, 25 km SW Dalby, on Leptospermum flavescens blossom, 18.x.1985, D. K. Yeates (MEI090894, 090895) (GDCB/AMS).

Diagnosis.

Wing hyaline; pleuron black; femora and tibia orange to yellow; abdomen orange, segments 1-3 sometimes black medially.

Redescription.

Body length= 8.0-9.5 mm. Head. Frons wider than ocellar tubercle (equal in male), profile rounded or transversely concave above antennae (female), pubescence as silver patches along eye margin, frons otherwise glabrous, surface texture as irregular longitudinal striations (female) or smooth (male); gena with dark setae; parafacial overlain with silver pubescence; palpus yellow-orange; occiput glabrous, glossy black; antennal base raised; antenna longer than head; scape yellow, length much shorter than flagellum, scape with sparse pale setae; flagellum yellow, base of flagellum with short, dark setae. Thorax. Scutum uniform grey-black; scutellum overlain with sparse, grey pubescence; pleuron black, overlain with sparse, silver-grey pubescence; wing hyaline, orange suffusion along costal margin; haltere knob orange-yellow; coxae orange-yellow (hind coxa dark); femora and tibia orange or yellow, fore tibia apex dark; tarsi yellow, fore-basitarsus dark basally, rest of foreleg tarsomeres white. Scutal chaetotaxy: np, 4; sa, 1; pa, 1; dc, 3; sc, 1. Abdomen. Orange, segments 1-2 black medially; terminalia pale.

Comments.

Pipinnipons kroeberi is similar to Pipinnipons kampmeierae sp. n. and can be differentiated based on the body colouration. This speciesis found in southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales.