The European species of Chalarus Walker, 1834 revisited (Diptera: Pipunculidae)
Author
Kehlmaier, Christian
Author
Assmann, Thorsten
text
Zootaxa
2008
1936
1
39
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.184950
b652166d-e8aa-4d19-89b3-74ce8634d436
1175-5326
184950
Chalarus exiguus
(
Haliday, 1833
)
Pipunculus exiguus
Haliday, 1833
: 162
Chalarus konishii
Morakote
, in
Morakote & Hirashima, 1990
: 169
. Synonymy:
Jervis (1992: 290)
.
Diagnosis:
Males could not be recorded in this study. See
Jervis (1992)
for a characterisation. Female with frontal facets greatly enlarged (J92
Fig. 2
B); frons very narrow, at narrowest point 1.0 times diameter of largest frontal facet; flagellum dark brown; legs dark brown but base of femora and area around femoral-tibial joints may be somewhat paler; pulvilli of all legs of same size, shorter than distitarsus; hairs on femora dark brown but pvsr of mid femur light brown; hairs on thorax and abdomen dark brown; hind femur with apical hairs of pdsr extending as far as apex; abdominal tergites dark brown; ovipositor as in
Figs 53 & 56
. See Table 1 for coxI and ITS2 barcode sequence accession numbers.
Annotations:
The taxon was originally described from the female
holotype
. No male specimens could be associated with the two females sequenced in this study, but following
Jervis (1992)
, who reared males and females from
Alnetoidia alneti
taken on the same day and locality, adult males are morphologically indistinguishable from
C. holosericeus
. However,
Jervis (1992)
distinguishes males of
C. exiguus
and
C. holosericeus
on the basis of pupal characters.