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Wirth
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF97FF94FF4D990CFC0DF8C4" box="[151,285,1796,1817]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
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[
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species:
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, original designation].—
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7 [revision].—Lizarralde de
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[fauna of
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].—
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: 235
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[world catalog].
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF97FF94FF4D996CFC01F8A0" bold="true" box="[151,273,1892,1917]" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF97FF94FEC5996DFCA3F8A1" box="[287,435,1893,1916]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="8">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
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is distinguished from other genera of
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by the following combination of characters: Medium-sized to large shore flies, body length
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; coloration generally gray; wing mostly hyaline; setae generally reduced.
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Mesofrons conspicuously setulose, completely microtomentose, dull, lacking large setae, cruciate or otherwise, parafrons more sparsely microtomentose; lateroclinate fronto-orbital setae 2; medial and lateral vertical setae both well developed; paravertical setae either reduced or lacking; antenna short; basal flagellomere lacking a lateral seta; basal flagellomere subequal in length to that of pedicel from dorsal view; arista short, only slightly longer than length of basal flagellomere, basal 2/3 thickened; antennal grooves deeply impressed; face long, distinctly protuberant anteriorly; facial setae small, setula-like; eye subspherical, slightly higher than wide; gena mostly bare, lacking a prominent seta, high, gena-to-eye ratio at least 0.60; maxillary palpus well developed.
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFF1D9F67FC31FE55" box="[199,289,367,392]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Thorax:</emphasis>
Acrostichal setae in 2 rows, these extended posteriorly to base of scutellum; well-developed, prescutellar, acrostichal seta 1, inserted slightly laterad of other acrostichal setulae; well-developed, dorsocentral seta 1, inserted near base of scutellum, with 34 larger setae along dorsocentral tract; postpronotal setae 12, these subequal in length to presutural supra-alar seta; postsutural supra-alar seta reduced or lacking; disc of scutellum bare; lateral scutellar setae 2; prosternum bare. Wing normally developed, mostly hyaline; costal margin with short spinelike setae; costal vein long, extended to vein M; R stem vein bare dorsally. Pulvilli well developed; tarsal claws short and distinctly curved; hindfemur of male not differing markedly from fore- or midfemur, lacking stout setae as above; hindtibia of male lacking tuft of setulae; hindtarsi of male cylindrical, normal.
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFF1D9C87FC2AFD75" box="[199,314,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Abdomen:</emphasis>
Tergites generally setose, setae along margins larger. Males with 5 visible segments, with tergite 5 longest, trapezoidal, broadly truncate posteriorly; females with 7.
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terminalia: Cercus of male terminalia elongate, fused ventrolaterally with epandrium; surstylus evidently fused with ventral margin of epandrium; gonite plate-like; aedeagus greatly reduced; female ventral receptacle with operculum subtrapezoidal, asymmetrical, extended process more or less C-shaped.
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFF4D996DFC03F8A7" bold="true" box="[151,275,1893,1915]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
Frontispiece of
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(from Mathis and Wirth 1979).
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFF1D99AFFC70F81D" bold="true" box="[199,352,1959,1984]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Distribution.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFEBD99A0FCEBF862" box="[359,507,1960,1983]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
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is endemic to southern South
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(Patagonia, between 49°52°S).
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFF1D99C4FC5CF838" bold="true" box="[199,332,1996,2021]" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Discussion.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF98FF9BFE8F99C4FCF9F83E" box="[341,489,1996,2019]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
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is a monotypic genus and is somewhat of an anomaly. Due to the autapomorphic condition of several of its characters, we have not succeeded in discovering evidence that would indicate a phylogenetic relationship with other generic level taxa of
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. We have tentatively placed
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF99FF9AFAD29EB4F88CFF0E" box="[1288,1436,188,211]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
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near the
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lineage because adults have five dorsocentral setae. But even this character state is autapomorphic, as the anterior pairs of setae are reduced and are only slightly larger than surrounding setae.
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was also perplexed by his new genus, noting that although the
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<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF99FF9AFB5A9F20F804FEE2" box="[1152,1300,296,319]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
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is clearly a member of the subfamily
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, “...it is not closely allied with any known genus. It appears to be closest to
<taxonomicName id="D9DD4D77FF99FF9AFF4D9F78FCDFFE55" authority="Robineau-Desvoidy" authorityName="Robineau-Desvoidy" box="[151,463,367,392]" class="Insecta" family="Ephydridae" genus="Coenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF99FF9AFF4D9F78FDF8FE5A" box="[151,232,368,391]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Coenia</emphasis>
Robineau-Desvoidy
</taxonomicName>
, a Holarctic genus, which it resembles to a slight extent in the presence of four pairs of dorsocentral setae and curved tarsal claws. Otherwise, its similarities are diverse and rather remote..
<taxonomicName id="D9DD4D77FF99FF9AFAD29F9CF88CFE76" box="[1288,1436,404,427]" class="Insecta" family="Ephydridae" genus="Austrocoenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="2CA9EAE6FF99FF9AFAD29F9CF88CFE76" box="[1288,1436,404,427]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Austrocoenia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is doubtless an annectant form surviving and modified from a very early offshoot of the
<taxonomicName id="D9DD4D77FF99FF9AFBA99FBFF9EAFE0D" box="[1139,1274,439,464]" class="Insecta" family="Ephydridae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Ephydrinae">Ephydrinae</taxonomicName>
.”
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