Phytomia fucoides Bezzi
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F94D2C-FF97-FFD6-0EAD-30D1FDB1FB95 |
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Plazi |
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Phytomia fucoides Bezzi |
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Phytomia fucoides Bezzi View in CoL
( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–20 , 54 View FIGURES 49–60 , 76 View FIGURES 73–84 , 97 View FIGURES 85–100 )
Phytomia fucoides Bezzi, 1915: 74 View in CoL
Material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀, UGANDA, Daro forest , Toro, 25–29.IX.1911, S.A. Neave ( BMNH) . Other material: KENYA, 1♀, North Nandi Forest, November–December 1979, Cunningham-van Someren ( NMK) ; 1♂ 1♀, North Nandi Forest, nr Chemisia , December 1979, N Nandi Exp ( NMK) . UGANDA, 2♂, Bwindi Impenetra- ble N.P., 14.XII.2018, K. Jordaens ( KMMA) ; 1♀, Mobuku Valley , December 1934 – January 1935, F.W. Edwards ( BMNH) ; 8♂ 2♀, Mpanga Forest Toro, 13–23.XI.1911, S.A. Neave ( BMNH) .
Body size. Body length (n=10): 13.5–14.9 mm. Wing length (n=10): 11.1–11.9 mm.
Redescription. MALE ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 11–20 ). Head. Eye bare; holoptic, touching for about 3 times length of ocellar triangle, facets enlarged in dorsal half. Frons black-brown; with brown pollinosity; dispersed mixed pilosity of long darkish and pale yellow pile; rugose area shining brown, occupying one-third of entire width and half of entire height; with shorter dispersed pale pile. Face ground colour black; with dispersed greyish to greyish brown pollinosity, in parts weakly shining black; dispersed pilosity of short pale pile; facial tubercle elongated, strongly pronounced. Gena colour and pollinosity as face; with long pale pilosity. Occiput dorsal third black, with greyish pollinosity; ventrally more densely yellow-white, with dispersed pale pile. Antennal segments brown, apical margin of basoflagellomere narrowly orange-brown; arista yellow-brown, in basal half with medium long pile equal to slightly more than half width of pedicel.
Thorax. Scutum and scutellum black ground colour, with dense orange-brown pollinosity; covered with dense pile of long orange to orange-brown pilosity, except in medial part of scutum where black pile; lateral margins of scutum and whole of scutellum more dark rufous. Pleural sclerites ground colour black, with brownish pollinosity; covered with dispersed pile of long golden yellow to orange pile except posterior part of katepisternum dorsally and anepimeron with black pile; meron, anterior part of katepisternum and anterior anepisternum bare.
Legs. Black to orange-brown. Fore leg, femur mainly black, apical margin narrowly paler; with dense short black pilosity, anteriorly and posteriorly longer; tibia pale in basal third, otherwise dark brown; with short black pilosity, except in basal third where pale; tarsal segments orange-brown. Mid leg as in fore leg, except tibia pale for basal half. Hind leg, femur dark brown, in basal third and at apical tip paler; dorsally with long pale pilosity, ventrally with long dark pilosity except near base where paler pile, otherwise short dark pilosity; tibia dark brown, pale in basal fifth dorsally; with short to medium-long dense black pilosity except in dorsal fifth where pale pile; tarsal segments orange-brown.
Wing ( Fig. 54 View FIGURES 49–60 ). Mainly with brownish tinge, more hyaline towards apical and posterior margins. Microtrichia over extensive part, covering wing from base to largely or completely cells c, sc, anterior half of r 1, base of r 2+3, r, bm, and anterobasal part of cup. Calypters dark with fringe of dark pile.
Abdomen ( Fig. 76 View FIGURES 73–84 ). Mainly black-brown to dark rufous ground colour. Terga 2–4 mainly weakly shining, with dispersed brownish pollinosity; no distinct bullae but slight medial swelling, especially on tergum 2; with dense orange to orange-brown pilosity, towards posterior end pilosity longer and more golden yellow. Sterna black-brown, with widely dispersed long pale pile. Male genitalia as in Fig. 97 View FIGURES 85–100 .
FEMALE. As male except for the following character states. Eye, facets of equal size; dichoptic. Frons brown to black ground colour; with greyish to greyish brown pollinosity, except in dorsal third where black-brown; covered with short dispersed mixed darkish and pale pile; rugose area shining brown; occupying slightly more than one-fourth of entire width and equal in height to ocellar triangle.
Distribution. Kenya, Uganda.
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