Revision of the stiletto fly genera Acupalpa Kroeber and Pipinnipons Winterton (Diptera, Therevidae, Agapophytinae) using cybertaxonomic methods, with a key to Australasian genera
Author
Shaun L., Winterton
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ZooKeys
2011
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.95.1461
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.95.1461
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Pipinnipons
fascipennis (
Kroeber
)
Fig. 2324
A-D
, G26
Squamopygia fascipennis
Kroeber
1928
: 36.
Pipinnipons fascipennis
(
Kroeber
) -
Winterton et al. 2001
: 211.
Type material.
Type male. AUSTRALIA: Queensland: Kuranda [-16.817°, 145.633°], Lichtwardt (MEI090896) (DEI).
Other material examined- AUSTRALIA: Queensland: male, Indooroopilly, Long Pocket, 22.
viii-
7.ix.2007, S. L. Winterton, Malaise trap (UQIC) (MEI165213).
Diagnosis.
Wing dark banded; pleuron orange to maroon; legs orange to maroon, tarsi lighter; abdomen dark red, tergite 2-3 red-brown, gold-bronze velutum on segments 4-7.
Redescription.
Body length= 7.0-9.0 mm. Head. Frons wider than ocellar tubercle (female) or narrower (male), profile rounded above antenna, pubescence matte black and bronze, surface texture smooth or striated; gena with pale setae; parafacial overlain with silver pubescence; palpus brown-black; occiput glabrous, glossy black; antennal base raised; antennal length approximately equal to head; scape orange to brown, short
er
than flagellum, with sparse black setae; flagellum orange to brown, base of flagellum with short dark setae. Thorax. Scutum dark with irregular brown and grey pubescent markings, setal bases glossy black; scutellum overlain with sparse grey pubescence; pleuron orange to maroon, overlain with sparse silver-grey pubescence; wing markings dark banded infuscate; haltere knob white; coxae, femora and tibia orange-maroon; tarsi lighter orange, foreleg with basitarsus dark, white apically, rest of foretarsi white with slightly darker apex. Scutal chaetotaxy: np, 4-5; sa, 1; pa, 1; dc, 1; sc, 1. Abdomen. Dark, tergites 2-3 red-brown laterally, gold-bronze velutum on tergites 4-7; terminalia pale.
Figure 23.
Pipinnipons fascipennis
(
Kroeber
),male. Body length = 6.0 mm. (Photo: S.L. Winterton).
Figure 24.
Pipinnipons
spp.: A
Pipinnipons fascipennis
(
Kroeber
), epandrium and tergite 8, dorsal B gonocoxites, ventral C same, lateral D aedeagus, lateral E
Pipinnipons kroeberi
Winterton, aedeagus, lateral F gonocoxites, epandrium removed and aedeagus in situ, dorsal G
Pipinnipons fascipennis
, male head, lateral H
Pipinnipons kroeberi
, female internal genitalia showing spermathecal sac complex. Scale lines = 0.2 mm.
Figure 25.
Pipinnipons chauncyvallis
sp. n., male, lateral view [576261]. Body length = 7.0 mm.
Comments.
The gold-bronze abdominal velutum covering in both sexes and the dark orange pleuron and leg colouration make
Pipinnipons fascipennis
easily recognisable. This species is found in closed forest areas, including rainforest.