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<mods:title>Morphometrics in the genus Amenia and revisionary notes on the Australian Ameniinae (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with the description of eight new species</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName authority="(Fabricius)" baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1510,2013,961,999]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="91" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">
<emphasis box="[1510,1805,961,999]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">Amenia leonina</emphasis>
(Fabricius)
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<bibRefCitation author="Crosskey, R. W." box="[1276,1551,1042,1081]" pageId="6" pageNumber="91" pagination="33 - 140" refId="ref24684" refString="Crosskey, R. W., 1965. A systematic revision of the Ameniinae (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 16: 33 - 140." type="journal article" year="1965">Crosskey (1965)</bibRefCitation>
, following
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, recognised two subspecies of
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1594,1778,1088,1127]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="91" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">A. leonina</taxonomicName>
,
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but substituted Macquart's older name
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<emphasis box="[1492,1733,1134,1173]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">albomaculata</emphasis>
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for Paramonov's
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Crosskey felt that subspecific status was warranted by the degree of allopatry in the known distributions
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<emphasis box="[2079,2255,1226,1265]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">A. leonina</emphasis>
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in the north,
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<emphasis box="[1498,1782,1272,1311]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
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in the southeast), a feature which has, in this case, held up under the increase of material. Basing my concept of the two taxa on the presence
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(
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)
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or absence
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(
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)
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of at least one median marginal bristle on abdominal tergite 3, plus certain male attributes discussed in Part 2, their currently known distributions are shown in
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.
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To examine any correlated morphometric differences, I selected
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specimens of each taxon (as identified by the bristle character) and measured
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and
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(as defined above); also the maximum width of the eye in half-facial view
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and the length of wing-vein
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+S PCA of the six dimensions showed a fairly clean separation of the two taxa, but with a few highly anomalous specimens from both.
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were also signs ofthe existence of yet another form, represented by several specimens from
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,
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.
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PCA results were based mainly on general size and
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which together accounted for 92% of variation
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.
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A second, more extensive study was therefore made, using all available males-
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all-and a reduced character set. The latter comprised
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and (as a more easily measured, non-head character) the distance between the posterior pair of dorsocentral bristles
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PCA of the three dimensions yielded a first, &quot;size&quot; component on which the two taxa were distributed apparently at random and which took up only 58% of variation. However, components 2 and
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Table 2. Ratios (ranges and means) of selected dimensions of
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and forms of
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.
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<paragraph blockId="6.[370,2104,2576,2687]" box="[370,921,2653,2687]" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">Numbers of specimens in brackets.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[406,504,2758,2797]" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">Ratio</emphasis>
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(20)
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<emphasis box="[1470,1646,2758,2797]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">imperialis</emphasis>
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<td box="[1068,1315,2820,2859]" gridcol="2" gridrow="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">&quot;Eastern&quot;(24)</td>
<td box="[1422,1697,2820,2859]" gridcol="3" gridrow="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">&quot;Cooktown&quot;(7)</td>
<td box="[1800,2056,2820,2859]" gridcol="4" gridrow="1" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">&quot;Western&quot;(17)</td>
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<emphasis box="[403,537,2913,2952]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">Frw/Fcl</emphasis>
Frw/Hdw Fcl/Hdw Fcl/Eyh Gnw/Eyh
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<td box="[1068,1315,2913,3153]" gridcol="2" gridrow="2" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">0.5-0.7,0.60 0.4-0.6,0.51 0.6-0.7,0.68 0.5-0.6,0.57 1.0-1.2,1.10</td>
<td box="[1422,1697,2913,3153]" gridcol="3" gridrow="2" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">0.5-0.5,0.48 0.4-0.5,0.42 0.6-0.7,0.67 0.5-0.6,0.54 1.0-1.1,1.08</td>
<td box="[1800,2056,2913,3153]" gridcol="4" gridrow="2" pageId="6" pageNumber="91">0.6-0.8,0.67 0.4-0.7,0.53 0.8-0.9,0.84 0.7-0.7,0.70 0.7-0.9,0.82</td>
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</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[385,490,2259,2295]" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">Figure</emphasis>
7. Ordination of 68 males of
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group on PCA axes 1 and 2. Open
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triangles-Amenia
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;
</emphasis>
others-&quot;forms&quot; of
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:
</emphasis>
open circles-typical form; filled circles-Cooktown form; filled squares-western form, Kimberleys; filled triangles-western form, NSW and Queensland; open diamonds-western form, Northern Territory.
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3 (with 35% and 7% respectively) were more informative.
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2 was dominated by
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and component 3 by a contrast
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between
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and
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view of this, and the small number of characters used, the ordination is more clearly presented (Fig. 9, p. 94) as a simple plot of
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against
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,
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both scaled by division by
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MDA (not shown) gives a very similar result
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="92" type="discussion">
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Figure 9 demonstrates that &quot;normal&quot;
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<emphasis box="[874,1143,2814,2853]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[226,400,2858,2900]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. leonina</emphasis>
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are quite well separated by relative head width alone. Frons width serves mainly to distinguish certain exceptional populations of
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<emphasis box="[684,961,2952,2991]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Fig. 9: &quot;New
<collectingCountry box="[228,368,2998,3037]" name="United Kingdom" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">England</collectingCountry>
&quot; and &quot;Southern&quot; forms). Nor does this reflect any north-south, clinal
<typeStatus box="[538,606,3044,3083]" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">type</typeStatus>
of variation. Within each taxon, and omitting the exceptional populations, there is no detectable correlation between normalised head width and latitude.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="7.[1282,2270,2491,3174]" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">
Another five exceptions are noted on Fig. 9, p. 94: four cases of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1531,1718,2537,2577]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">
<emphasis box="[1531,1718,2537,2577]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. leonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with dimensions typical of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and one of the converse. These &quot;aberrant&quot; specimens all come from the main area of overlap between
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1438,1618,2675,2714]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">
<emphasis box="[1438,1618,2675,2714]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. leonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Colless" authorityYear="1998" baseAuthorityName=", Crosskey" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[1704,1994,2675,2714]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albomaculata">
<emphasis box="[1704,1994,2675,2714]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in southeastern
<collectingRegion box="[1286,1494,2721,2760]" country="Australia" name="Queensland" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">Queensland</collectingRegion>
.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1520,1555,2721,2760]" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">In</emphasis>
Fig. 9, the 5 &quot;marginal&quot; specimens of
<emphasis box="[1282,1611,2767,2806]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Colless" authorityYear="1998" baseAuthorityName=", Crosskey" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[1282,1604,2767,2806]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albomaculata">A. albomaculata</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
near the centre of the plot, with dimensions close to those of
<emphasis box="[1794,1985,2813,2852]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1794,1979,2813,2852]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">A. leonina</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
also come from the vicinity of Brisbane. On the other hand, 5 other specimens from near Brisbane fall in the main body of the
<taxonomicName authorityName="Colless" authorityYear="1998" baseAuthorityName=", Crosskey" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[1353,1653,2951,2990]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albomaculata">
<emphasis box="[1353,1653,2951,2990]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="92">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
cluster, and are perfectly typical members of that taxon. The same is true of
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from Noosa, a little north of Brisbane. Also, a further
<specimenCount box="[1288,1526,3089,3128]" pageId="7" pageNumber="92" type="generic">13 specimens</specimenCount>
, all collected in the vicinity of Brisbane, came to hand later and were plotted in the foregoing
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph blockId="8.[399,2126,1822,1899]" box="[399,2126,1822,1858]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">
Figure 8. Distributions of
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<emphasis box="[817,1157,1822,1858]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">Amenia albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(triangles) and
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<emphasis box="[1409,1655,1822,1858]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">Amenia leonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(circles) (overlapping records
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection box="[400,540,1865,1899]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="8.[399,2126,1822,1899]" box="[400,540,1865,1899]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">omitted).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="93" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="8.[241,1229,1989,2625]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">
fashion. Seven
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<emphasis box="[528,830,1989,2028]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
would all fall in the appropriate area of Fig. 9, but only 3 out of 6
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[1047,1226,2035,2074]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">
<emphasis box="[1047,1226,2035,2074]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. leonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
would do so; the other 3 would fall in the
<taxonomicName authorityName="Colless" authorityYear="1998" baseAuthorityName=", Crosskey" baseAuthorityYear="1965" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albomaculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
area.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="8.[241,1229,1989,2625]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">
The simplest explanation of those observations is that some degree of hybridisation is occurring between
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. leonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName authorityName="Colless" authorityYear="1998" baseAuthorityName=", Crosskey" baseAuthorityYear="1965" box="[466,757,2264,2303]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albomaculata">
<emphasis box="[466,757,2264,2303]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the general vicinity of Brisbane, with head shape and the bristle character segregating independently in the hybrids. Nonetheless, if suchhybridisationis possible it becomes difficultto explain how outliers manage to persist-such as the male
<taxonomicName authorityName="Colless" authorityYear="1998" baseAuthorityName=", Crosskey" baseAuthorityYear="1965" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="albomaculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. albomaculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Mackay, deep in the home range ofA.
<emphasis box="[242,376,2540,2579]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[242,370,2540,2579]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">leonina</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
and the
<specimenCount box="[531,678,2540,2579]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" type="female">4 female</specimenCount>
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Fabricius" baseAuthorityYear="1775" box="[691,869,2540,2579]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leonina">
<emphasis box="[691,869,2540,2579]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">A. leonina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Sydney.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection box="[290,1051,2586,2625]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93" type="description">
<paragraph blockId="8.[241,1229,1989,2625]" box="[290,1051,2586,2625]" pageId="8" pageNumber="93">Thcsc rcsults are further discussed in PaIt 2.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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