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(
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material examined.
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:
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. 3: “
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Col. Dist. Colombo
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. elev. Museum Gardens
<date id="5A6910708459FF82F5BEFA972FBAFAC5" box="[252,443,1307,1332]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" value="1977-01-15">15 January 1977</date>
”; “K.V. Krombein, P. Fernando, D.W. Balasooriya, V. Gunawardane” (
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PARA-
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. 1 3, 2 Ƥ: Rad. Dist., Uggalkaltota,
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.,
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, Davis &amp; Rowe; 1 Ƥ: Anu. Dist., Padavija,
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.,
<date id="5A6910708459FF82F41FFAEF2FE5FA8D" box="[349,484,1379,1403]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" value="1970-11-02" valueMax="1970-11-08" valueMin="1970-11-02">28.xi.1970</date>
, O.S. Flint Jr.; 1 Ƥ: Pol. Dist., Pimburettawa,
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. S-Mannampitiya,
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, 1850 ft., O.S. Flint Jr.; 3 Ƥ: Kan. Dist.,
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,
<date id="5A6910708459FF82F7B2FA0B2D97FA69" box="[752,918,1415,1439]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" value="1971-03-26" valueMax="1971-03-28" valueMin="1971-03-26">2628.iii.1971</date>
, P. &amp; P. Spangler; 3 Ƥ: Kan. Dist.,
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NW Mahiyangana,
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, P. &amp; P. Spangler; 1 Ƥ: Kan. Dist.,
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Botanical Gardens,
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, Piyadasa &amp; Somapala (all
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); 1 3: W. Prov., Colombo, Colpetty,
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, Loc. 2 (
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); 1 Ƥ: Mihintale,
<date id="5A6910708459FF82F5D5FA7F2F0AF9FD" box="[151,267,1523,1547]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" value="1974-02-20">20.ii.1974</date>
, A.E. Stubbs &amp; P.J. Chandler (
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).
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Length (
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): Body
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, wing
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.
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28459FF82F691F99B2A1DF9D9" bold="true" box="[979,1052,1559,1583]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">Head:</emphasis>
Frons, face and clypeus metallic green with ochreous pruinosity; palpus metallic green shining; proboscis dark brown, massive; antenna entirely dark brown; lower postoculars white.
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28459FF82F702F9D32CA3F981" bold="true" box="[576,674,1631,1655]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">Thorax:</emphasis>
Dorsum metallic olive-green, with dusting of grey pruinosity, more densely on mesonotal depression and scutellum; thoracic setae black, except as noted; 2 strong dc bordering mesonotal depression and 2 smaller anterior setae, half as long as dc; ac very small, shorter than distance between ac rows; 2 strong scutellars and 2 lateral setae, one-half length of medians; pleura metallic olive-green, with greyish pruinosity; proepisternum with 23 strong pale setae below.
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28459FF82F623F9632DA2F8F1" bold="true" box="[865,931,1775,1799]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">Legs:</emphasis>
Entirely yellow, except fore coxa infuscated, mid and hind coxae dark brown with metallic reflections. Fore leg: coxa with pale apical setae; remainder of leg without major setae; relative podomere ratios: 62/62/30/
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/8. Mid leg: coxa with 2 anterolateral setae; tibia with black ad/pd setal pair at 1/5, and 1 black apicoventral seta; relative podomere ratios: 64/79/50/
<date id="5A6910708459FF82F1B2F8D72B45F885" box="[1264,1348,1883,1907]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" value="1929-09-19">29/19/9</date>
/7.
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leg: coxa with 1 pale lateral seta; femur with some pale dorsal setae on basal half; tibia with small ad/pd setal pair at 1/5, with small subapical seta dorsally and small black apical tooth (MSSC); basitarsus with small basal tubercle opposite of tibial tooth (MSSC); relative podomere ratios: 65/98/18/
<date id="5A6910708459FF82F6CDF84B2DF2F829" box="[911,1011,1991,2015]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" value="1947-11-24">47/24/11</date>
/7.
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28459FF82F151F84A2A5CF829" bold="true" box="[1043,1117,1990,2015]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">Wing:</emphasis>
Veins yellowish; R4+5 and M distinctly converging towards wing margin; CuAx ratio: 0.6; RMx ratio: 4.3; lower calypter pale yellow, with fan of yellow setae; haltere pale yellow with dark brown stem.
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F610FF372DD1FF22" bold="true" box="[850,976,187,212]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Abdomen:</emphasis>
Dark metallic olive-green; setae white; epandrium black, cercus and surstylus dark brown. Male genitalia (
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): epandrium pyriform; hypandrium with acute apex; epandrial seta absent; epandrial lobes almost fused, median lobe with bifurcate and ventrally branched seta, lateral lobe with blade-like flattened seta; dorsal arm of surstylus longer and bifurcate apically, with 2 subapical setae, ventral arm with 2 strong apical setae; cercus with ventral curved projection and blade-like apical seta.
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F5D5FEFC2EF6FE7E" bold="true" box="[151,247,368,392]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Female:</emphasis>
Similar to male, but lacking MSSC.
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F585FE182F4FFE5A" bold="true" box="[199,334,404,428]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Etymology.</emphasis>
The species name is derived from the closely related
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F6E5FE192A40FE5A" box="[935,1089,405,428]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. grisescens</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F585FE342F3AFE26" bold="true" box="[199,315,440,464]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Remarks.</emphasis>
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Medetra
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belongs to the
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F641FE342DA4FE26" box="[771,933,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">diadema-veles</emphasis>
species-group which includes two Oriental species. It is similar to
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F4DFFE512C39FE02" box="[413,568,477,500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. grisescens</emphasis>
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de Meijere but can be separated by the characters given in the key. From
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F03FFE512EDAFDEE" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. opaca</emphasis>
Bickel
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the new species can be distinguished by its body length which is more than
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, and by the structure of the male genitalia. The species listed as
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F7F3FDA92D4DFDCA" box="[689,844,549,572]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. grisescens</emphasis>
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from
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in
<bibRefCitation id="4A464B418458FF83F167FDA82AC0FDCA" author="Bickel" box="[1061,1217,548,572]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Bickel, D. J. (1987) A revision of the Oriental and Australasian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 39, 195 - 259." type="journal article" year="1987">Bickel (1987)</bibRefCitation>
belongs to
<taxonomicName id="E9D74D338458FF83F007FDA92F0DFD96" class="Insecta" family="Dolichopodidae" genus="Medetera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subgrisescens">
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F007FDA92F0DFD96" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. subgrisescens</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F458FDC42C00FD96" box="[282,513,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Medetera grisescens</emphasis>
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was originally described from Java (
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) and is widely distributed from the
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, throughout south-east Asia including southern
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to eastern
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and the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii (
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). Considering the closely related new species, we assume that
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F1F5FD1D2B50FD5E" box="[1207,1361,657,680]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. grisescens</emphasis>
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represents a species-complex and
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F4A0FD392CA4FD3A" box="[482,677,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. subgrisescens</emphasis>
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occurs at least in
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.
<taxonomicName id="E9D74D338458FF83F6B4FD382B06FD3A" box="[1014,1287,692,716]" class="Insecta" family="Dolichopodidae" genus="Medetera" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subgrisescens">
<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F6B4FD382B06FD3A" box="[1014,1287,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Medetera subgrisescens</emphasis>
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is somewhat similar in genitalic morphology to
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<emphasis id="1CA3EAA28458FF83F765FD552CCBFD06" box="[551,714,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">M. gotohorum</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4A464B418458FF83F791FD542A0FFD19" author="Masunaga" box="[723,1038,727,752]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Masunaga, K. &amp; Saigusa, T. (1998) A taxonomic study of the genus Medetera Fischer von Waldheim of Japan (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) Entomological Science, 1 (4), 611 - 621." type="journal article" year="1998">Masunaga &amp; Saigusa, 1998</bibRefCitation>
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from
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and
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, but can be separated by the apical tooth on the hind basitarsus.
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