Aphiura tasmaniensis, DISNEY, 2003
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110096564 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B287A2-425F-FF92-FDFF-FA17FB6EFE5D |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Aphiura tasmaniensis |
status |
sp. nov. |
Aphiura tasmaniensis View in CoL sp. nov.
(figure 6)
Material
H : male, Tasmania, Hobart, Battery Point, De Witt Street , garden, 23–31 December 1991 ( R. H. L. Disney —25-4) ( TMH).
P : 7 males —2 as holotype except ( UMZC); 3 as holotype except 1–11 January 1992 and two ( CSIRO, UMZC); 2 as holotype except 10–12 June 1995 ( TMH, UMZC) .
Etymology Named after the country of the type locality. Diagnosis
Third antennal segment with numerous small SPS vesicles and pre-apical arista; palp relatively small and with irregular pits on outer face; scutellum with four bristles, but inner (posterior) pair weak; right posterolateral lobe of epandrium with irregularly trunctated tip; left lobe of hypandrium much reduced but right lobe large; femora brown.
Male
Frons brown, similar to A. alistairi but with fewer than 40 hairs and two to four supra-antennal hairs. With two or three bristles on cheek and three to five on jowl. Antennae pale brown to brown and as figure 6B. Palps a little paler and as figure 6A. Labrum pale brown and it and labella similar to A. alistairi . Thorax brown, with chaetotaxy as A. alistairi and anterior scutellars about 1.5× as long as posterior pair of bristles. Abdominal tergites brown with short hairs that are only a little longer at rear margins (figure 6C). Venter as A. alistairi . Hypopygium brown, as figure 6C, the paraphyses of the penis complex being mainly dark brown. Legs similar to A. cynthiae . Wing 1.4–2.1 mm long. Costal index 0.50–0.53. Costal ratios 5.3–7.2: 2.1–3.2: 1. Costal cilia 0.08–0.09 mm long. Otherwise wing as A. alistairi but with veins and membrane a little paler and costa not thicker than vein 3. With three to four axillary bristles. Haltere with brown stem and basal third of knob, the distal two-thirds of latter being whitish but in most being lightly tinged brown.
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