New species of Acraspisoides Hill & Winterton and Bonjeania Irwin & Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae), with the description of a new genus
Author
Winterton, Shaun L.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1438
1
25
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175919
ec00e0da-188c-40cb-88f9-0ad913c843a8
1175-5326
175919
Bonjeania
Irwin & Lyneborg
Lonchorhynchus
White, 1915
: 33
(preoccupied by
Wiman, 1910
);
Mann
, 1929
: 44
.
Type
species:
Anabarhychus nitidifrons
Macquart 1850
: 405
(101) by original designation.
Bonjeania
Irwin & Lyneborg, 1989
: 356
(
nom. nov.
for
Lonchorhynchus
White
);
Winterton
et al.
2000
: 297
(revision);
Winterton
et al.
2001
: 203
(diagnosis).
Diagnosis.
Antenna positioned low on frons; antenna shorter than head length; head shape in profile either rounded or with frons and face protruding anteriorly; male occiput concave to convex with single row (rarely multiple rows) of postocular setae; female occiput convex with multiple, poorly defined rows of postocular setae; wing cell
m3
closed; wing hyaline to dark infuscate, never strongly banded; wing infuscation usually sexually dimorphic; anteroventral subapical seta absent on hind femur; fore and hind femora with velutum patches; all femora of approximate equal length; posterior margin of abdominal tergites 1–4 often with thickened band of velutum orientated anteriorly; medial atrium present; gonocoxite with velutum (often on membrane bordering or covering medial atrium); gonocoxal apodemes usually greatly elongate, often greater than four times length of gonocoxite, sometimes shorter than gonocoxite; distiphallus usually extremely long and thin; dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath poorly sclerotised, sometimes reduced or absent; ejaculatory apodeme and lateral ejaculatory apodeme greatly enlarged; single spermatheca; spermathecal sac simple, shape spherical or near so (rarely reduced).
Comments.
Winterton
et al.
(2000)
revised
Bonjeania
describing seven new species in addition to the three previously described by
Macquart (1850)
and
White (1915)
.
Winterton
et al.
(2001)
subsequently diagnosed the genus in a phylogenetic context using molecular and morphological data, placing
Bonjeania
in the
Parapsilocephala
clade with
Patanothrix
,
Acatopyiga
and
Parapsilocephala
. The single spermatheca in the female, unique amongst
Therevidae
and most Asiloidea, is diagnostic for the genus. The greatly elongate aedeagus and gonocoxal apodemes in the male genitalia are also characteristic for the genus, although not present in some species such as
B. segnis
,
B. jefferiesi
sp. nov.
and
B. argentea
sp. nov.
Bonjeania
is distributed throughout all of
Australia
. The number of species contained in the genus
Bonjeania
is increased considerably with the inclusion of those described herein, therefore a revised key to species modified after
Winterton
et al.
(2000)
is presented to aid in identification.
Included species.
Bonjeania actuosa
(White)
,
B. affinis
sp. nov.
,
B. angelikae
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. apluda
sp. nov.
,
B. argentea
sp. nov.
,
B. bapsis
sp. nov
.
,
B. clamosis
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. dynastis
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. flavofemoralis
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. irwinae
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. jefferiesi
sp. nov.
,
B. lambkinae
sp. nov.
,
B. nitidifrons
(Macquart)
,
B. orphne
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. segnis
(White)
,
B. trilineata
Winterton & Skevington
,
B. webbi
sp. nov.
,
B. zwicki
sp. nov.