New Taxa of Signal Flies (Diptera: Platystomatidae) of New Caledonia
Author
McAlpine, D. K.
text
Records of the Australian Museum
2007
2007-05-30
59
1
65
77
https://journals.australian.museum/mcalpine-2007-rec-aust-mus-591-6577/
journal article
10.3853/j.0067-1975.59.2007.1485
2201-4349
12ECD5AF-F9B0-44CF-B400-5BEECAE02B32
Key to Australasian species of
Naupoda
1 Arista (or antennal segment 6) bare, except for pubescence near base; anteroventral quarter of mesopleuron covered with dense white pubescence; length of discal cell less than 0.8 of length of second basal cell, both measured along vein 4; Lord Howe Island .......................................
nudiseta
(Bezzi)
—— Arista with many short hairs or pubescence on distal half or more; anteroventral quarter of mesopleuron almost bare, shining black; discal cell c. as long as second basal cell or slightly longer ............................................................... 2
2 Anterior margin of postfrons with yellow transverse rounded ridge extending from eye to eye; facial region with horizontal black stripe extending from cheek to cheek; central region of mesoscutum very broadly tawny-orange;
New Caledonia
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burwelli
n.sp.
—— Anterior margin of postfrons without transverse ridge; facial region without horizontal dark stripe; mesoscutum black on central part ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
3 Humeral callus without obvious yellow mark; anal cell with substantial bare zone, hyaline except at basal and distal extremities; New
Guinea
.................................................................................................................................... sp. 1
—— Humeral callus with large pale yellow mark; anal cell entirely microtrichose, either extensively suffused with brown, or with brown spot near or just beyond mid-length ......................................................................................... 4
4 Mesopleuron almost entirely blackish; humeral callus with additional small yellow mark on upper margin; second basal and anal cells partly hyaline on basal halves; New
Guinea
and eastern
Australia
..........................................................................................................................
regina
Hendel
—— Mesopleuron with horizontal yellow stripe; humeral callus with lower yellow mark only; second basal and anal cells brown on at least basal halves; Solomon Archipelago ...................................................................
ventralis
Curran