The genus Rhabdomastix Skuse in Australia (Diptera: Tipuloidea: Limoniidae)
Author
Theischinger, Günther
Author
Billingham, Zacariah D.
Author
Martin, John
Author
Growns, Ivor
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-27
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10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.3
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Rhabdomastix
(
Rhabdomastix
)
ostensackeni
Skuse
(
Figs. 33–35
)
Rhabdomastix ostensackeni
Skuse, 1890: 829
.
Material examined.
Holotype
♂:
Australia
,
New
South Wales
,
Berowra
(
ANIC
); seen: dry, pinned, wing and terminalia on slide on pin.
New South
Wales
:
2
ƋƋ
,
Heathcote Brook
,
8–x–1985
,
G. Theischinger
(
AM
); 2
ƋƋ
,
Kanangra Boyd N. P.
,
Mt Kanangra
,
1100 m
, montane woodland,
2–i–1993
, pans,
D.J. Bickel
(
AM
); 1
Ƌ
,
Mulerindi
,
10 km
N Tamworth
,
16–xi–
19976,
G. Theischinger
(
AM
);
R. ostensackeni
Ƌ
Type, F.A.A. Skuse (on permanent loan from MACLEY MUSEUM
University of Sydney
) (
ANIC
); 1
Ƌ
,
Sydney
,
19.9.25
(
Health Dept.
) (
ANIC
); 1
Ƌ
,
Stoney Ck
,
77 km
N of Windsor
,
7–x–1974
,
Z. Liepa
(
ANIC
); 1
Ƌ
,
Terrey Hills
near
Sydney
,
21–iii–1970
,
D.K. McAlpine
(
AM
); 1
Ƌ
,
Tianjara Falls
,
10–xi–1985
,
G.Theischinger
(
AM
).
Only the male of
R. ostensackeni
has been described (
Skuse, 1890
). The female remains undescribed.
Additional details of the male
(from dry, pinned material and material preserved in 80% ethanol) (
Figs. 33– 35
).
Head.
Antenna brown,
4–6 mm
long; pedicel much shorter than flagellomeres; flagellomere 1 long, slender cylindrical; flagellomere 3 many times as long as wide.
Wing.
Very narrow, particularly basally. Veins
R
4
and
R
5
apically diverging; cell
dm
about half as long as vein
M
4
; vein
A
2
almost straight, very short, ending well before level origin of
Rs
; anal angle hardly developed.
Terminalia.
Gonocoxite about three times as long as wide. Outer gonostylus more than half as long as gonocoxite and about twice as long and largely about as thick as the inner gonostylus that is attenuated rather abruptly to a thin tip. Interbase pointed, rather strongly but evenly arched. Aedeagus at least as long as rather slim vesica plus moderate size apodeme.
Distribution.
South-eastern: New South
Wales
(
Map 1
).
Discussion.
The male of
R.
(
R.) ostensackeni
stands out from all consubgeneric species known from
Australia
by very long antennae (longer than wing) with very thin flagellomeres (f3 many times as long as wide), by anal angle of wing hardly developed (cell
A
2
very shallow), by outer and inner gonostyli similar in width, the outer not distinctly armed, apically rounded, the inner largely parallel sided with rather long, much narrower tip and by strongly arched interbases.