Review of the Species of Paranomina (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
Author
Mcalpine, David K.
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Paranomina stuckenbergi
sp. nov.
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Figs 15, 16
Holotype
♂
.
New
South Wales
:
Hat Hill
, near
Blackheath
[c.
33°37'S
150°18'E
],
16.iv.1971
,
D.K.M.
(
AM
K.456343).
On
micropin through polyporus, postabdomen in genitalia tube on same pin
.
Paratypes
. New
South Wales
:
5♂♂
, same data as holotype (
AM
)
;
1♂
,
Evans Lookout
, near
Blackheath
,
Nov. 1975
, G.D. (
QM
)
;
1♂
,
3 km
S of Mount Wilson
,
Blue Mountains
,
March 1979
, G.D. (
AM
)
;
1♂
, near
Native Dog Hill
,
38 km
E of Rylstone
,
Dec. 1977
, G.D. (
AM
)
;
1♂
, [
Goonoo State Forest
]
5 miles
[c.
8 km
]
S of Mendooran
,
Sept. 1973
, G.D. (
QM
)
;
2♂♂
,
Royal National Park
,
July
,
Nov. 1971
–1975, G.D.,
D.K.M.
, G.A.H. (
AM
,
QM
)
;
1♂
, road to
Mulligan’s Hut
,
Gibraltar
Range National Park
,
Feb. 1982
, B.J.D. (
AM
)
.
Other material examined
.
New
South Wales
: some females from above listed localities may be conspecific with associated males (
AM
).
1♂
,
Tasmania
:
Mount William National Park
(
QM
)
.
Description
(male). Agreeing with generic description given above.
Coloration
generally tawny-yellow. Head: parafacial white-pruinescent. Antenna largely dark brown. Thorax without darker markings. Fore tarsus faintly browned apically. Wing hyaline; halter yellow to tawny-yellow.
Postabdomen.
Sclerites of sternite 6 little developed and pigmented; surstylus (
Fig. 15
) with almost straight lateral outline and with distal outline oblique, straight to slightly curved; aedeagal rod with acute, usually deflexed lobe near mid-length, beyond lobe slender, almost straight, tapering to very narrow simple apex.
Dimensions.
Total length,
4.1–4.9 mm
; length of thorax,
2.2 mm
; length of wing,
4.9–5.2 mm
.
Distribution
.
New South Wales
: Blue Mountains and north to ranges east of Glenn Innes; coast district just south of Sydney.
Tasmania
: north-east.
Notes.
Paranomina stuckenbergi
resembles
P. mouldsorum
and
P. hendeli
. It is without any distinct brown markings on the thorax, and in the male the surstylus and aedeagal rod are of characteristic shape. Females cannot be determined with certainty, though some specimens associated with males are provisionally sorted to this species.
Probably all or most of the specimens were taken on
Xanthorrhoea
plants, though few are so labelled.
The specific epithet refers to my late friend Brian R. Stuckenberg, formerly of the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, who made a significant contribution to knowledge of Old World
Lauxaniidae
.
Figures 15, 16
.
Paranomina stuckenbergi
, male, Hat Hill.
(15)
Epandrium with surstyli, posterior view, scale = 0.2
mm.
(16)
Aedeagal complex, anterior view, scale =
0.2 mm
.