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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="Malloch" authorityName="Malloch" authorityYear="1929" box="[433,1018,784,823]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigromaculata">
<emphasis box="[433,854,784,823]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Amenia nigromaculata</emphasis>
Malloch
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<taxonomicName authority="Crosskey, 1965: 124" authorityName="Crosskey" authorityPageNumber="124" authorityYear="1965" box="[237,1042,872,906]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Formosiomima" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigromaculata">
<emphasis box="[237,702,872,906]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Formosiomima nigromaculata</emphasis>
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The species has a largely coastal distribution in southwestern
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, from Exmouth Gulf in the north and eastwards along the Great Australian Bight as far as Yalata in
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(
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). Although overlapping broadly with
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Malloch" baseAuthorityYear="1930" box="[479,738,1133,1172]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longicornis">A. longicornis</taxonomicName>
,
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it occurs alone along the westernandsouthwesterncoastsofWesternAustralia. This is no doubt correlated in some fashion with the biology of the host-snails, which are species of
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<emphasis box="[943,1214,1271,1310]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Bothriembryon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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):
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<emphasis box="[500,706,1317,1356]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">B. balteolus</emphasis>
Iredale
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName authority="Menke" authorityName="Menke" box="[867,1138,1317,1356]" class="Gastropoda" family="Bulimulidae" genus="Bothriembryon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="bulla">
<emphasis box="[867,1006,1317,1356]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">B. bulla</emphasis>
Menke
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis box="[235,417,1363,1402]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">B. glauerti</emphasis>
Iredale (
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)
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.
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The phylogenetic evidence in Part 3 (
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) suggests that
<taxonomicName authorityName="Crosskey" authorityYear="1965" box="[309,596,1455,1493]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Formosiomima" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigromaculata">
<emphasis box="[309,596,1455,1493]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">A. nigromaculata</emphasis>
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is the sister species of
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Walker" baseAuthorityYear="1849" box="[999,1207,1455,1493]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chrysame">A. chrysame</taxonomicName>
.
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This is consistent with their complementary distributions in areas that differ markedly in rainfall. Separate generic status for the former species would therefore be quite inappropriate, despite its conspicuously different colour pattern. This is not accompanied by any significant structural differences, and is presumably due to a long period of isolation in southwestern
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in a different host snail (I am indebted to a referee for the information that
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<emphasis box="[625,827,1823,1861]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">A. chrysame</emphasis>
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lives largely (?entirely) outside the range of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Pilsbry" authorityYear="1894" box="[574,822,1869,1908]" class="Gastropoda" family="Bulimulidae" genus="Bothriembryon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">Bothriembryon</taxonomicName>
).
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Tribe
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I am including in this tribe the mainly Oriental genus
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,
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which was added to the subfamily by
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, but placed in its own, monotypic tribe (he also adds West Irian to the range of C.
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I do this on good phenetic grounds. Examination of a specimen of each sex of C.
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Macquart and a female of the
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species, C.
<emphasis box="[1576,1682,558,597]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">ingens</emphasis>
(Walker), shows that they closely resemble
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<emphasis box="[1455,1637,604,643]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Paramenia</emphasis>
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spp. in the relatively large size, the rather distinctive coloration, the absence of the facial carina and apical
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spine on the hind tibia, and the presence of a posthumeral bristle set in front of or a little externally to the presutural bristle. These attributes are probably all plesiomorphic, and the tribe may well be paraphyletic; but that is a small price to pay for a more balanced classification. (A referee has pointed out that, in any case,
<emphasis box="[1289,1557,972,1011]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Catapicephalini</emphasis>
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is a
<emphasis box="[1941,2205,972,1011]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">nomen nudum).</emphasis>
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Genus
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<emphasis box="[1524,1717,1102,1140]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Paramenia</emphasis>
Brauer &amp; Bergenstamm
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<paragraph blockId="27.[1286,2272,1207,2165]" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">
The genus, which is confined to
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and New
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, is very distinct: principally in lacking the facial carina, which is well developed in other genera (differences from the non-Australian
<taxonomicName authorityName="Macquart" authorityYear="1851" box="[1621,1861,1345,1383]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Catapicephala" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1621,1861,1345,1383]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Catapicephala</emphasis>
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are given in the key to genera). Unlike other ameniines, the prosternal setae may also be reduced or absent, an attribute that was regarded by
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as of little or no taxonomic use within
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Brauer &amp; Bergenstamm" authorityYear="1890" box="[1286,1476,1529,1567]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Paramenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paramenia</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
Per contra, I find that there are always at least 2-3 fine hairs present in
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<emphasis box="[1728,1992,1575,1613]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">P. semiauriceps</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) whereas they are almost always lacking (6/7
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9/109 9) in
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Crosskey" authorityYear="1965" box="[1335,1755,1667,1705]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Paramenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angustifrons">Paramenia angustifrons</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
I have added this feature to the key below, as well as the difference in relative width of the gena. Crosskey noted the latter feature, but I have used my own system of measurement (see Part 1). I might add that PCA of a set of head dimensions (not shown) clearly separates the two species.
</paragraph>
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I can add nothing else to Crosskey's detailed descriptions, beyond noting that both species have a small tuft of setulae on the suprasquamal ridge, as in all the large species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Robineau-Desvoidy" authorityYear="1830" box="[1687,1818,2080,2119]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[1687,1818,2080,2119]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">Amenia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(i.e., excluding
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<emphasis box="[2106,2270,2080,2119]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="112">chrysame</emphasis>
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and
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Malloch" baseAuthorityYear="1930" box="[1367,1574,2127,2165]" class="Insecta" family="Calliphoridae" genus="Amenia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="27" pageNumber="112" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="longicornis">longicornis</taxonomicName>
).
</emphasis>
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