Strongylophthalmyia thaii Papp
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3510938 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C587D8-FFAC-FF9D-5EBD-F23CE5AE07F3 |
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Strongylophthalmyia thaii Papp |
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Strongylophthalmyia thaii Papp
( Figs. 36 View FIGURES 34 – 37 , 60 View FIGURES 54 – 61 , 76 View FIGURES 70 – 77 )
Strongylophthalmyia thaii Papp in Papp et al. 2006: 171 View Cited Treatment . Shatalkin 2007: 360. Iwasa & Evenhuis 2014: 104. Galinskaya & Shatalkin 2016: 139 View Cited Treatment .
Diagnosis. Among the cluster of species possessing an anepisternal tuft of hairs and an S-shaped dorsal antennal process, this species in most similar to S. thailandica , n. sp. both species of which possess white coxal hairs and a non-flared male palpus, but S. thaii can be easily distinguished from it by coloration of the antennal flagellomere (darker and with brown along the anterior edge in S. thaii ; yellowish white in S. thailandica ), reddish brown tergites I–II (tergites I–II yellowish in S. thailandica ) and the different pattern of arrangement of the dorsal spicules on the fore femur (3 spicules basally and 5 spicules apically in S. thailandica ; 5 spicules in S. thaii ).
Material examined: Paratype ♂ from THAILAND: Nan Province: Ban Na Lae, near Pua , 5 Nov 2004, over a rocky forest brook, M. Földvári, No. 19 ( BPBM).
Remarks. The original description covers the salient descriptive characters. I provide two additions: the fore femur ( Fig. 76 View FIGURES 70 – 77 ) dorsally has 5 short thorn-like spicules, and there are scattered stiff black hairs laterally and apically. The WIP ( Fig. 60 View FIGURES 54 – 61 ) is generally brassy posteriorly and distally; blue-green at base of radial field, becoming blue, and purple in succession distally to medial portion of radial field; thin band of blue and blue-green along costa to R4+5; distomedial portion of radial and medial fields brassy orange-colored; anal lobe with mixture of blue and brassy colors subbasally, otherwise, golden brassy. A photo of the antenna ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 34 – 37 ) is provided here for direct comparison to other species in this subgroup.
Nothing further can be added based on examination in this study of a paratype. The ftwo emales from Vietnam identified as S. thaii by Galinskaya & Shatalkin (2016) may not be this species (females of the S. punctata subgroup are difficult to associate with males unless they were collected together, and preferably in copula). Until irrefutable characters can be found to associate males and females, I prefer to treat their S. thaii female as undetermined.
Distribution: Thailand.
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Strongylophthalmyia thaii Papp
Evenhuis, Neal L. 2016 |
Strongylophthalmyia thaii Papp in Papp et al. 2006 : 171
Galinskaya 2016: 139 |
Iwasa 2014: 104 |
Shatalkin 2007: 360 |
Papp 2006: 171 |