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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF62F81FFE57FC9E" bold="true" box="[151,412,799,825]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Platypygus natalensis</emphasis>
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(
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)
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<taxonomicName id="4C3E71E7FF8E4603FF62F88AFDECFC07" authority="Hesse, 1967: 97" authorityName="Hesse" authorityPageNumber="97" authorityYear="1967" box="[151,551,906,928]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="natalensis">
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF62F88AFEBCFC07" box="[151,375,906,928]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Platypygus natalensis</emphasis>
Hesse, 1967: 97
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. Hull, 1973: 262. Evenhuis, 1983: 481; 1993: 97. 2002: 26. Tschirnhaus
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FAEAF88BFA85FC07" box="[1311,1358,906,928]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">et al</emphasis>
., 2000: 384. Gharali
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FEB9F8AAFEB3FC18" box="[332,376,937,959]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">et al</emphasis>
., 2011: 25.
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF62F8E6FEB0FC58" bold="true" box="[151,379,998,1023]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Material examined</emphasis>
.
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<typeStatus id="5485B4C6FF8E4603FE7EF8E7FE03FC59" box="[395,456,999,1022]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Types</typeStatus>
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:
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:
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<collectingCountry id="F3294AF4FF8E4603FD4EF8E6FC58FC58" box="[699,915,998,1023]" name="South Africa" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">SOUTH AFRICA</collectingCountry>
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: Lilani Ahrens dist.
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, S. Africa /B. &amp; P. Stuckenberg/
<date id="FF802CA4FF8E4603FEC4FF0AFE60FB84" box="[305,427,1034,1059]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" value="1962-04">April 1962</date>
(NMSA).
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Notes on
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. Hesse (1967) based his description of
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FCCCFF2FFC03FBE0" box="[825,968,1070,1095]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">P. natalensis</emphasis>
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on a single female
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from Lilani,
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,
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deposited in NMSA. The
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specimen was seen by NLE during his visit to the
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Museum in 1990 and its condition of partially collapsed eyes due to air-drying and the apical one-fifth of the left wing being torn off were published in Evenhuis (1993). We re-examined the
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during this study and there is no change to its condition (see
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).
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF32FFE2FE66FB5C" bold="true" box="[199,429,1250,1275]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Diagnostic features</emphasis>
. Face yellow; frons yellow becoming diffusely brown dorsally (
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f); postgena with rounded posterior extension (
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c), mentum yellow, concave ventrally; occiput black; ocellar triangle black (
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f); antennae with scape and pedicel yellow, flagellomere black; mesonotum (
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b) with a three brown stripes dorsally, medial stripe extending anteriorly to anterior margin of mesonotum, tapering posteriorly to rounded point before yellow prescutellar area; lateral stripe consisting of two parts thinly coalesced behind transverse suture; postpronotal lobes and postalar calli yellow; brown spot next to transverse suture; lateral margin of mesonotum yellow; scutellum yellow, lateral corners narrowly black; halter yellow; Sc fading toward tip and not reaching costa (
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e); r-m slightly before middle of cell dm; cell br longer than cell bm (
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d); legs orangeyellow except two last tarsal segments brownish black (
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a).
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF32FD26FE92F998" bold="true" box="[199,345,1574,1599]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Distribution</emphasis>
.
<collectingCountry id="F3294AF4FF8E4603FE92FD26FE3DF998" box="[359,502,1574,1599]" name="South Africa" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">South Africa</collectingCountry>
(
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).
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<subSubSection id="C32459EFFF8E4603FF32FD4AFE69F89C" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8B810A64FF8E4603FF32FD4AFE69F89C" blockId="21.[151,1436,998,1851]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF32FD4AFEFFF9C4" bold="true" box="[199,308,1610,1635]" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Remarks</emphasis>
. The rather posterior extension of the postgena is unusual in
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FBDDFD4AFB6FF9C4" box="[1064,1188,1610,1635]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Platypygus</emphasis>
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species and appears superficially to be more characteristic of
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FD9AFD6FFD3EF921" box="[623,757,1647,1670]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Cyrtisiopsis</emphasis>
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. However, cell br is longer than cell bm, a major character separating
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FEE1FD93FE51F90D" box="[276,410,1683,1706]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Cyrtisiopsis</emphasis>
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from
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<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FE10FD92FDAAF90C" box="[485,609,1682,1707]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Platypygus</emphasis>
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. We were unable to dissect the unique female
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and tentatively keep
<taxonomicName id="4C3E71E7FF8E4603FF26FDB6FE8EF968" box="[211,325,1718,1743]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="natalensis">
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FF26FDB6FE8EF968" box="[211,325,1718,1743]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">natalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
<taxonomicName id="4C3E71E7FF8E4603FE9FFDB6FE2DF968" box="[362,486,1718,1743]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FE9FFDB6FE2DF968" box="[362,486,1718,1743]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Platypygus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
awaiting further material from which to make genitalic dissections. Re-examination during this study of Namibian Platypyginae shows that the record of
<taxonomicName id="4C3E71E7FF8E4603FC41FDDCFB8FF954" box="[948,1092,1754,1779]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Platypygus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="natalensis">
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FC41FDDCFB8FF954" box="[948,1092,1754,1779]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">P. natalensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<collectingCountry id="F3294AF4FF8E4603FB79FDDAFB26F954" box="[1164,1261,1754,1779]" name="Namibia" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Namibia</collectingCountry>
in Tschirnhaus (2000) was based on a misidentification of an aberrant specimen of
<taxonomicName id="4C3E71E7FF8E4603FC6AFDFEFC30F8B0" box="[927,1019,1790,1815]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Ahessea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="220" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B94AD676FF8E4603FC6AFDFEFC30F8B0" box="[927,1019,1790,1815]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Ahessea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, so we have removed
<collectingCountry id="F3294AF4FF8E4603FB09FDFEFA97F8B0" box="[1276,1372,1790,1815]" name="Namibia" pageId="21" pageNumber="220">Namibia</collectingCountry>
from the distributional range.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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