Axinota dissimilis Malloch

Pollock, J. N., 2002, Observations on the biology and anatomy of Curtonotidae (Diptera: Schizophora), Journal of Natural History 36 (14), pp. 1725-1745 : 1736-1738

Axinota dissimilis Malloch anatomy

The male abdomen is rather cylindrical (gure 10), as in Curtonotum . There is only one tergite, perhaps best to be regarded as tergite 7, between tergite 5 and the epandrium. This tergite is bare. The aedeagal apodeme is long and curved, very like the condition in Curtonotum . The aedeagus bears two asymmetrical valves; the valves are about equal in length, but diVerently ornamented.

Sternite 10 is indistinct, and perhaps absent. What appears to be the ejaculatory sclerite is attached to near the distal end of the aedeagal apodeme, partially hidden by a sleeve-like development of the aedeagal apodeme at that point. The degree of protrusion of the aedeagal apodeme and its movement in Axonota dissimilis could not be determined, and several details of the paired male appendages could not be fully resolved with the available material. The female abdomen of Axinota has not been examined as part of this study.

As in the other two genera of the family, the tarsi bear lines of close-set squat dual setulae.