Hypselothyrea (Deplanothyrea) breviscutellata DUDA, 1928

Papp, L., 2003, New Species And Records Of Hypselothyrea De Meijere (Diptera, Drosophilidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 49 (4), pp. 271-294 : 288-289

Hypselothyrea (Deplanothyrea) breviscutellata DUDA, 1928

The holotype female ought to have been found in the HNHM but the type is obviously lost. BÄCHLI (1982, 1984b), while revising the types of the Palaearctic species of Drosophilidae and the drosophilid types of the HNHM, did not find it. It was not found either in the collection of the Berlin Museum, where DUDA’ s collection is preserved ( BÄCHLI 1984 a). I have not traced anything in the files of the HNHM about its loan to anybody.

The species is otherwise slightly reduced-winged (cf. DUDA 1928: fig. 1). A redescription was given by OKADA (1956). Later he ( OKADA 1980) summarised its differentiating characters and published also figures on male genitalia. There is no reason not to accept OKADA’ s concept of this species but since H. breviscutellata is the type species of the subgenus Deplanothyrea , it would be advisable to designate a neotype for this species.