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Length 14̄
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. Ground colour dull black to dark brown, mostly microsetulose.
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FIGURES 6168.
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Male S5 with genital fork; 64. Male, dorsolateral; 65. Male terminalia, left lateral; 66. Head, dorsolateral; 67. Paired spermathecae; 68. Spermathecae and associated structures.
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<paragraph id="8B8F1762FFE0A039FF5AFF56AB628AC3" blockId="24.[151,1437,151,1331]" pageId="24" pageNumber="268">Thorax with scutellum silvery, scutum evenly microsetulose except for a transverse silver strip extending from lateral quarter of suture to a diagonal silver strip running from suture down across the posterior margin of the anepisternum and down the katepisternum just in front of the katepisternal seta row. Proepisternum with ventral setae subequal in length to proepisternum. Pleuron entirely microsetulose, without shining areas. Legs brown except as follows: fore femur pale at apex, fore tarsus with tarsomeres 1̄3 white. Mid and hind femora with a pale band near middle and a pale apex. Hind femur cylindrical, hind tibia with outer surface indistinctly sulcate on basal quarter. Hind trochanter pale brown.</paragraph>
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Wing with broad basal, discal and preapical black bands, basal band incomplete anteriorly, preapical band continuous with an anteriorly infuscated wing apex. Anal cell bare, CuA2 sinuate, proximal to bm̄cu, distal angle 45
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.
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(
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) and
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(
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,
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The unusual phallus of
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, which ends in the phallic bulb and lacks a distal distiphallus, suggests a close relationship to
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and the previous
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species (
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and
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). The distal distiphallus is also absent in
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,
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but otherwise the structure of the distiphallus of
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(long and sinuate basal part, very large distal bulb) is distinct from
<taxonomicName id="4C306CE1FFE0A039FC88FB5AAAD88FF8" box="[789,917,1235,1259]" class="Insecta" family="Micropezidae" genus="Paramimegralla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="268" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stiltoides">
<emphasis id="B944CB70FFE0A039FC88FB5AAAD88FF8" box="[789,917,1235,1259]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="268">P. stiltoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and relatives.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C32A44E9FFE0A039FF5AFB7FAD028E20" pageId="24" pageNumber="268" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8B8F1762FFE0A039FF5AFB7FAD028E20" blockId="24.[151,1437,151,1331]" pageId="24" pageNumber="268">
<emphasis id="B944CB70FFE0A039FF5AFB7FA8038E1C" bold="true" box="[199,334,1270,1295]" pageId="24" pageNumber="268">Etymology.</emphasis>
The relatively long legs of this species give it a superficial similarity to the species previously treated as the genus
<taxonomicName id="4C306CE1FFE0A039FEE7FA92A8A38E20" box="[378,494,1307,1331]" class="Insecta" family="Micropezidae" genus="Stiltissima" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="268" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B944CB70FFE0A039FEE7FA92A8A38E20" box="[378,494,1307,1331]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="268">Stiltissima</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, a similarity reflected in the species name &quot;
<taxonomicName id="4C306CE1FFE0A039FC4AFA92AD718E20" box="[983,1084,1307,1331]" class="Insecta" family="Micropezidae" genus="Paramimegralla" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="268" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stiltoides">
<emphasis id="B944CB70FFE0A039FC4AFA92AD718E20" box="[983,1084,1307,1331]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="268">stiltoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
&quot;.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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