Revision of Nearctic Paramyia Williston (Diptera: Milichiidae)
Author
Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie
Author
Mlynarek, Julia J.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-02-11
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Key to the North American females of
Paramyia
1 Body yellow …............................................................................
P. lutea
n. sp.
- Body brown or black …............................................................................... 2
2 All tarsi dark brown to black and matching the tibia (
Fig. 11D
) …................................
P. nigritarsi
n. sp.
- Fore tarsi yellow to brown; mid and hind tarsi yellow and clearly differing from the brown to dark brown tibia (
Fig. 7E
,
13D
) … ................................................................................................. 3
3 Flagellum short and oblong, 1.4-1.6 times wider than long; pedicel usually brown or paler than flagellum (
Fig. 13E
); palpus short and broad with a row of ventral slender setae (
Fig. 13F
) …................................
P. brevikeraia
n. sp.
- Flagellum subquadrate and at most 1.25 times wider than long or longer, if closer to 1.4 times wider than long, gena very narrow: eye 7.7-8.0 times as high as gena; pedicel usually same color than flagellum, dark brown; palpus longer and narrow … 4
4 Labella yellowish to amber in lateral view from base to apex with only extreme base darker at the junction with labium (clear difference between labium and labella color) (
Fig. 7G
) and fore tibia yellowish to light brown (paler than fore femur) on anterior, posterior and ventral side; dorsal side with extremities yellowish and a variable brown patch in the middle..............................................................................................
P. pseudonitens
n. sp.