The genus Styringomyia LOEW in Australia (Diptera: Tipuloidea: Limoniidae)
Author
Theischinger, Günther
Author
D, Zacariah
Author
Martin, John
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
2018
2018-12-17
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5273151
0253-116X
5273151
Styringomyia terraereginae
ALEXANDER
(
Figs 26-29
)
Styringomyia terraereginae
ALEXANDER, 1924: 182
.
Holotype
♂
:
Australia
,
North
Queensland
,
Gordonvale
, ex scrub,
November 1920
,
A.P. Dodd
(AC).
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d.
Queensland
:
holotype
(see
Figs 26-29
).
The most valuable diagnostic characters specified in the original Description (ALEXANDER 1924) are: "Antennae with the first segment black, the remainder of the organ more brownish. Legs with the coxae black; trochanters brown; femora black, the fore femora paler at base, the posterior femora with a broad china-white ring before the equally broad black apex; tibiae and tarsi black, the extreme bases of the segments narrowly paler. Wings with the cephalic distal portion strongly infumed, a broad but incomplete hyaline band before the cord".
D i s c u s s i o n
Styringomyia terraereginae
appears most similar to
S. aterrima
nov.sp.
Diagnostic for male
S. terraereginae
are the white-banded metafemora and the basally distinctly expanded, apically very thin apical spine of the gonocoxites versus uniformly black metafemora and the normal shape of the apical spine on the gonocoxites in
S. aterrima
.