Platypalpus subpectoralis Raffone

Barták, Miroslav & Kubík, Štěpán, 2016, New species and new synonyms in European Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae), Zootaxa 4175 (2), pp. 142-154 : 152

Platypalpus subpectoralis Raffone

Platypalpus subpectoralis Raffone, 2002b: 38 .

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♀, labelled: “ITALY—Parma—Riserva naturale Guadine-Pradaccio, 18.VII–7.VIII.2001 legit Lab. Bosco Fontana, Malaisetrap sentiero State Forestry Corps—NRBF coll. / Holotypus / Platypalpus subpectoralis n. sp. det. Raffone G. 2001” (NRBF).

Notes on type material. Holotype is well preserved, originally stored in alcohol, but during this study was dried and mounted on a card. It is a specimen of P. pectoralis (Fallén) .

Remarks. Characters of P. pectoralis not previously properly described and specified here include: postpedicel in some specimens narrow, so this segment may be up to three times longer than broad; clypeus narrow and lustrous, gena very narrow and lustrous; katepisternum lustrous up to extreme posterior margin but anterior margin with unusually long microtrichia especially in its dorsal part; postalar seta short but subapical scutellar seta may be subequally as long as apical seta; a row of 2–6 notopleural setae, usually 1–3 of them longer than remaining; midtibial spur clearly developed; vein R1 forms with costa very dark swelling apically; basal part of anal vein well developed. Genitalia illustrated properly by Chvála (1975, figs 264–266): left cercus broadened apically, right surstylus short and broad, nearly semicircular.

Platypalpus subpectoralis is considered a new junior synonym of P. pectoralis .