The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses
Author
Nihei, Silvio Shigueo
Author
Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De
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Zootaxa
2009
1976
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10.5281/zenodo.185153
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185153
Mitroplatia
Enderlein, 1935
Mitroplatia
Enderlein, 1935
: 236
.
Type
species:
Mitroplatia pygmaea
Enderlein, 1935
.
Diagnosis.
Colouration metallic blue to violaceous; wing without maculae. Female with proclinate frontoorbital seta developed or not; parafrons weakly setulose on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Acrostichals 0+1. Posthumeral present; postsutural intra-alars 1; intrapostalar present. Prosternum bare and conspicuously enlarged anteriorly, with a trapezoid shape (
Fig. 8
). Katepisternals 1+2 (sometimes 1+1). Wing with the Rs node setulose dorsally and ventrally; R4+5 setulose dorsally and usually ventrally; M bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum. Subcostal sclerite bare. Calcar strong. First abdominal sternite widely setulose.
Distribution
(15 species). Afrotropical and Oriental.
References.
Afrotropical species:
Peris (1961
,
1967
),
Zielke (1971)
; Oriental:
Emden (1965)
,
Xue and Chao (1998)
. [Most references include the
Mitroplatia
species in
Morellia
. See the Afrotropical and Oriental catalogues (
Pont 1977
,
1980
).]