<Unknown Taxon>

Colless, Donald H., 2012, The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae), Records of the Australian Museum 64 (3), pp. 167-211 : 183

Froggattimyia coracina sp. nov.

Types. Holotype male in QM no. T155548; bred from Pterygophorus analis Costa [= Lophyrotoma analis], H. Tryon, Roma, Qld, 12 Feb. 1915; coll. D.A., Qld no. 576; terminalia in tube 320; condition poor. Paratypes:— Queensland: 1 male (badly damaged) and 1 female, same collection data as holotype (but male lacking “Col. No.”); 2 females, Mingela, 21 Apr. 1955, one Norris & IFBC, the other KRN, T.t. 222; 1 female, 15°18'S 145°00'E, Isabella Creek, 32 km WNW of Cooktown, 230 m, 23 May 1977, IFBC and E. D. Edwards.

A very dark species, structurally similar to F. hirta, but differing as follows:

Male. Head. First flagellomere almost entirely dark. Parafacial setulae more profuse.

Thorax. Mesoscutum, pleuron and legs, and their hairs and setulae uniformly dark, except for brownish scutellum and postalar callus.

Abdomen. Tergites with silvery pollen, but tergite 3 and tergite 4 with narrow, apical bands and narrow, incomplete median vittae of brownish pollen.

Terminalia. Holotype with posterointernal setae on the cerci even more profuse than is usual in hirta; also, cerci perhaps of a slightly different shape, but this difficult to determine.

Female. Essentially similar to male, but a slightly paler ground colour barely visible under pollinosity of postpronotal lobe; also, apices of femora very narrowly pale.

Distribution. Known only from Queensland.

Biology. The holotype and two others were reared from sawfly larvae of genus Pterygophorus.

Notes. This might be considered a hypermelanic form of F. hirta, but the differences are striking and, in abdominal pattern and colour of female legs, qualitative. The completely dark pleuron and pleural vestiture, combined with the profusely setulose parafacial, are immediately diagnostic.

This species includes the specimens reared from Pterygophorus analis and placed in F. hirta by Malloch (1934). The species name is from the Latin “coracinus” meaning raven-like.