Chimerothalassius ismayi Shamshev & Grootaert, 2003

Brooks, Scott E. & Cumming, Jeffrey M., 2022, New Australasian Parathalassiinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae sensu lato), Zootaxa 5188 (6), pp. 521-543 : 524

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.6.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7105653

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scientific name

Chimerothalassius ismayi Shamshev & Grootaert
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Chimerothalassius ismayi Shamshev & Grootaert View in CoL

( Figs 3, 4 View FIGURES 1–4 , 12, 13 View FIGURES 12–15 )

Chimerothalassius ismayi Shamshev & Grootaert, 2002: 133 View in CoL . Type locality: South Birdlings Flat , New Zealand.

Material Examined. NEW ZEALAND: North Island, Waikato Region, Stony Bay , 36°30ʹ42.3ʺS 175°25ʹ24.4ʺE, steep short bay with river outlet, beach with mix of large pebbles & sand, 12.iv.2019, R GoogleMaps . J. Le Grice (1♀, NZAC, photo); North Island, Wellington Region, Ôwhiro Bay , 41°20ʹ40.8ʺS 174°45ʹ32.2ʺE, 11.xii.2019, small steep enclosed bay with freshwater stream outlet, beach with mix of medium and small stones, R GoogleMaps . J. Le Grice (1♀, NZAC, photo); South Island, Banks Pen., Port Levy [ca 43°39ʹS 172°48ʹE], 22–26.ii.1999, near sea streambed, pan traps, S.A. Marshall, debu00102042 (1♂, DEBU); South Island , NN [Nelson area code], Cable Bay , 41°09.6ʹS 173°24.9ʹE, 13.ii.1998, W.N. Mathis, USNM ENT 00085568 About USNM (1♀, USNM) .

Diagnosis. Males of C. ismayi are distinguished from the other known Australasian species of the genus by their elongate yellow palpus ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–15 ), grey body, yellow legs and several hypopygial features ( Shamshev & Grootaert 2002, figs 18–22) including: left ventral epandrial process with tip weakly bent; left ventral surstylus relatively short with short setae; right ventral epandrial process straight; phallus with funnel-like tip; hypoproct simple and narrow. Females of C. ismayi (see “Remarks” below) are distinguished by the following features: fore femur with row of 4–5 long spine-like ventral setae on basal half ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 12–15 ); palpus elongate and brownish with 3 long spine-like ventral setae (about 2X palpus width); terminalia with syntergite 9+10 undivided and bearing acanthophorous setae, cercus narrowly rounded apically with prominent preapical seta ( Shamshev & Grootaert 2002, figs 23–25).

Distribution. Chimerothalassius ismayi is known only from New Zealand and has been collected at Ôwhiro Bay and Stony Bay on North Island, and Cable Bay, Port Levy and South Birdlings Flat [ca 43°49ʹS 172°42ʹE] on the northern part of South Island ( Figs 3–7 View FIGURES 1–4 View FIGURES 5–7 ).

Remarks. The type series from South Birdlings Flat and the female specimens from Ôwhiro Bay and Stony Bay were swept or hand collected from stony beaches (e.g., Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–4 ) or beaches with mixed pebbles and sand, while the Port Levy male specimen was taken in a pan trap along a stream bed near the sea ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 5–7 ). Shamshev & Grootaert (2002) noted great sexual dimorphism in the chaetotaxy of the palpus and foreleg of C. ismayi , which is not seen in C. runyoni Brooks & Cumming from the Caribbean ( Brooks & Cumming 2018), or C. riparius sp. nov. from New Caledonia, described below. Although we have not seen the type series of C. ismayi (8 males and 14 females from South Birdlings Flat, South Island deposited in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium), we have examined a male collected from the nearby locality of Port Levy (DEBU), and females collected from Cable Bay (USNM), Ôwhiro Bay and Stony Bay (NZAC) that are virtually identical to the male holotype, male paratypes and female paratypes illustrated and described by Shamshev & Grootaert (2002, figs 1–26). Given the major differences in the chaetotaxy of the palpus and foreleg between the males and females of the type series (as well as the male and females we examined), we suspect that the female paratypes of C. ismayi and the females from Cable Bay, Ôwhiro Bay and Stony Bay actually belong to an undescribed species for which the male remains undiscovered. Even though the type specimens of C. ismayi were all collected from a single stony beach on the same day, multiple species of certain parathalassiine shoreline genera, such as Amphithalassius Ulrich , Parathalassius Mik , and Plesiothalassius Ulrich are known to co-inhabit single beaches ( Ulrich 1991; Brooks & Cumming 2017). The same appears true for Chimerothalassius , at least at the Port Levy locality, where both C. ismayi and C. marshalli sp. nov. were taken during the same collecting event. The female specimens currently assigned to C. ismayi also do not appear to be conspecific with C. marshalli sp. nov. based on differences in chaetotaxy of the palpus, gena, thorax and foreleg.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

DEBU

Ontario Insect Collection, University of Guelph

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Dolichopodidae

Genus

Chimerothalassius

Loc

Chimerothalassius ismayi Shamshev & Grootaert

Brooks, Scott E. & Cumming, Jeffrey M. 2022
2022
Loc

Chimerothalassius ismayi

Shamshev, I. V. & Grootaert, P. 2002: 133
2002
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