Platypygus turkmenorum Paramonov

Gharali, Babak, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Almeida, Jorge, 2013, World synopsis of described species of the genus Platypygus Loew (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Platypyginae), Zootaxa 3745 (2), pp. 199-242 : 234-236

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.2.3

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6152607

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scientific name

Platypygus turkmenorum Paramonov
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Platypygus turkmenorum Paramonov

( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 )

Platypygus turkmenorum Paramonov, 1929: 145 , 209. Engel, 1933: 127. Paramonov, 1934: 21. Liepa, 1969: 19. Hull, 1973: 262. Evenhuis, 1983: 491; 2002: 26. Zaitzev, 1989: 45.

Material examined. Types: TURKMENISTAN: 1 male paratype / Typus Platypygus turkmenorum sp. nov. / Askhabad, Transcaspia, 21.IV.26 / Paramonov leg./ Zool. Mus. Berlin (ZMHB).

Notes on types. Paramonov (1929) originally described Platypygus turkmenorum based on 20 male specimens from “Aschabad, Transcaspia” [= Ashkabad, Turkmenistan] collected on 21 April 1926 by Paramonov. Paramonov (1929) stated “ Typus in meiner Sammlung” and there is a single specimen labeled “ Typus ” in SIZK, which contains Paramonov’s personal collection, so it is the holotype specimen. Of the original 20 specimens, only two (1 in ZMHB and 1 in SIZK) were located by Evenhuis (2002). We have not been able to trace the remaining 18 specimens. We were able to examine the specimen in ZMHB, which although it is labeled as “ Typus ” is a surviving paratype. The holotype in SIZK carries the labels “Ashkabad/ Transcaspia/ 21.IV.26 / Paramonov leg./ Platypygus turkmenorum / Typus / Paramonov det. ” and is double mounted with a minuten (V. Korneyev, in litt. 25 July 2000).

Diagnostic features. Frons yellow with V-shaped black mark near base of antennae; antennae completely black ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 a); postgena normal without posterior extension; occiput black, upper part of occiput with long yellowish hairs ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 d); mesonotum ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 b) minutely hairy, yellow with large contiguous black pattern medially, mark extending anteriorly as stripe to anterior margin of mesonotum; postpronotal lobes and postalar calli yellow; lateral margins of mesonotum yellow; lateral black spot next to transverse suture coalesced with median pattern; black prescutellar area with large yellow oval spot; scutellum completely yellow; halter yellow; costa ends slightly beyond vein R4+5; crossvein r-m at middle of cell dm ( Fig. 23 View FIGURE 23 c); legs yellow.

Male genitalia. Due to the paucity of available specimens, we did not dissect the male paratype in ZMHB.

Distribution. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Remarks. . Females of this species are unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Platypygus

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