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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FF3CAADD9D94102C" box="[151,407,1015,1037]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">Platypygus maculiventris</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FF3CAD139D9A1073" bold="true" box="[151,409,1081,1106]" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">Specimens examined.</emphasis>
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specimen,
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: Abazar, Abazar village, Ghazvin province,
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asl.,
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, white pan trapping, leg. B. Gharali.
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Originally,
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found a male specimen of
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from Shahrood (a city in the northeast of
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in the territory of Semnan province) and described his new species briefly in Latin as follows:
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This description includes some common features (yellow body color and three segmented antennae), that are found in species of both
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and
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FD2BAC709F051150" box="[640,774,1370,1393]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">Cyrtisiopsis</emphasis>
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; it also gives a few diagnostic characters such as hairy mesonotum, black spots on mesonotum next to transverse suture (see
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c), yellow scutellum, presence of black mark on frons (see
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b), and hyaline wings. These diagnostic characters match well with
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and our single specimen of
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.
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Relying on a single specimen to describe a new species and short description caused the taxonomic validity of this species to be questionable by some subsequent authors.
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Apparently,
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checked the
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and an additional specimen of
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and concluded that this species is only a variety of
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. He treated
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in the subgenus
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, which was originally described by Séguy (1930) for the single African species,
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Séguy.
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subsequently showed that his specimens of
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FD7EAF509F8A12B0" box="[725,905,1657,1681]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">P. maculiventris</emphasis>
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had some unique rows of black rhomboid dots on the abdominal tergites although one or two spots may be absent in rows, nevertheless he considered this species as a variety of
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. As opposed to previous authors,
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followed Loews concept and considered
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as a valid species. He examined two female specimens of
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and described them in detail, but interestingly without reexamination or redescription of the male
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. The
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specimen may have been lost at that time (see
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).
<bibRefCitation id="F10A4B1CFFF43929FD2BAE049F521364" author="Paramonov" box="[640,849,1837,1861]" pageId="13" pageNumber="38" refString="Paramonov, S. J. (1934) Unentberliche kritische Bemerkungen zu der Arbeit von Dr. Engeluber die Bombyliiden in Lindner's, &quot; Die Fliegen der palaarktischen Region &quot;. Konowia, 13, 10 - 21." type="journal article" year="1934">Paramonov (1934)</bibRefCitation>
mentioned that
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FBADAE0498BA1364" box="[1030,1209,1837,1861]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">P. maculiventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is similar to
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FAE7AE049CB81348" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">P. a l g i - rus</emphasis>
and
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FF59AE789D601348" box="[242,355,1873,1897]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">P. melleus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and the coalescing of the three longitudinal black stripes in the posterior part of the mesonotum is the diagnostic character for this species. All three authors (Engel, Efflatoun, and Paramonov) agreed that this species is closely related to
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF43929FE7BAEB09EB01390" box="[464,691,1945,1969]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Cyrtisiopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="13" pageNumber="38" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melleus">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF43929FE7BAEB09EB01390" box="[464,691,1945,1969]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="38">Cyrtisiopsis melleus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
once the taxonomic value of postgena, the relative length of basal cells to each other (see
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d), and the status of the discal cell was known, so it is inferred that these characters were the same in
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFEF2A9B29DCC1491" box="[345,463,152,176]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Cyrtisiopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="melleus">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFEF2A9B29DCC1491" box="[345,463,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">C. melleus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFDAFA9B39EBD1491" box="[516,702,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFDAFA9B39EB91491" box="[516,698,152,176]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maculiventris">P. maculiventris</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Additionally, the postgena in
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFBA6A9B398C31491" box="[1037,1216,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">P. maculiventris</emphasis>
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extends posteriorly as an acute process (see
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a), wing cell br is equal to cell bm and the discal cell is closed. The extended postgenal character is not seen in the five species of
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFD33A9CA9F1614D9" box="[664,789,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">Platypygus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
that we closely examined and this character is considered as one of diagnostic characters of the genus
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFD2BA82F9858153D" authority="Greathead &amp; Evenhuis 2001" authorityName="Greathead &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2001" box="[640,1115,260,284]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Cyrtisiopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFD2BA82F9F05153D" box="[640,774,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">Cyrtisiopsis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="F10A4B1CFFF7392AFCBFA82E9850153D" author="Greathead" box="[788,1107,260,284]" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" refString="Greathead, D. &amp; Evenhuis, N. L. (2001) Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombyloidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae). African Invertebrates, 42, 105 - 224." type="journal article" year="2001">Greathead &amp; Evenhuis 2001</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="0DA02A68FFF7392AFBC1A82E98AD153D" box="[1130,1198,260,284]" captionStart="FIGURE 9" captionStartId="14.[151,250,1647,1670]" captionTargetBox="[456,1123,519,1607]" captionTargetId="figure@14.[456,1124,519,1609]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="FIGURE 9. Cyrtisiopsis maculiventris: a—head (lateral view), b—head (anterior view), c—mesonotum (dorsal view), dwing." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/204426/files/figure.png" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
). The basal cell character is found rarely in the genus
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFDBBA8029E8E1561" box="[528,653,296,320]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFDBBA8029E8E1561" box="[528,653,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">Platypygus</emphasis>
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(e.g., in
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFD59A8039FF0151E" authority="Loew, 1873" authorityName="Loew" authorityYear="1873" box="[754,1011,295,320]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pumilio">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFD59A8039F601561" box="[754,867,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">P. pumilio</emphasis>
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); and the discal cell character is diagnostic to both genera. Hence, we feel
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFD96A8679EF21545" box="[573,753,332,356]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maculiventris">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFD96A8679EF21545" box="[573,753,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">P. maculiventris</emphasis>
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is a member of
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFC0DA867982F1545" box="[934,1068,333,356]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Cyrtisiopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFC0DA867982F1545" box="[934,1068,333,356]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">Cyrtisiopsis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and here transfer it to that genus as
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFF1CA85A9DE615A9" box="[183,485,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">
<taxonomicName id="529B4D6EFFF7392AFF1CA85A9DE215A9" box="[183,481,368,392]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Cyrtisiopsis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="14" pageNumber="39" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="maculiventris" status="comb. nov.">Cyrtisiopsis maculiventris</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFE46A85A9E2D15A9" bold="true" box="[493,558,368,392]" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">comb</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFD94A85A9E6A15A9" bold="true" box="[575,617,368,392]" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">nov</emphasis>
.
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Also, we feel
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFCB2A85A9FD015A9" box="[793,979,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">C. maculiventris</emphasis>
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should be considered as a valid species until more specimens of
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<emphasis id="A7EFEAFFFFF7392AFE06A8BF9E20158D" box="[429,547,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="39">C. melleus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are collected and the range of variability in both species are completely understood.
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