Nososticta salomonis
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.2.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7982158 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A8912-ED6F-FF97-B199-ED8DD8A4FCA5 |
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Plazi |
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Nososticta salomonis |
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Key to the species of the Nososticta salomonis View in CoL complex
1a - From Solomon Islands ( Map 1 View MAP 1 ); (Pls 7, 8)........................................................ N. salomonis View in CoL
1b - From Indonesia and Papua New Guinea ( Maps 2–4 View MAP 2 View MAP 3 View MAP 4 ).......................................................... 2
2a - Male S2 with distinct blue dorsal marking ( Figs 55, 56 View FIGURES 55–65 )....................................................... 3
2b - Male S2 without distinct blue dorsal marking............................................................... 4
3a - Male S2 with distinct antero-dorsal mark or pair of marks and postero-dorsal mark ( Fig. 55 View FIGURES 55–65 ); poststernum in both sexes with very dark well-defined wing-shaped mark ( Figs 57 View FIGURES 55–65 ); Bismarck Archipelago; a single surprising record from north-eastern New Guinea ( Map 2 View MAP 2 ).............................................................................. N. africana View in CoL
3b - Male S2 with distinct postero-dorsal mark only ( Fig. 56 View FIGURES 55–65 ); poststernum in both sexes without very dark well-defined wing-shaped mark ( Fig. 58 View FIGURES 55–65 ); from Tagula in the Lousiade Archipelago ( Map 3 View MAP 3 )........................... N. tagula sp. nov.
4a - Male ante-humeral patches separated by stalked Y- shaped, black median area ( Fig. 59 View FIGURES 55–65 ); female ante-humeral patches reverse comma-shaped, bent, markedly shorter than one half the length of mesanepisternum ( Fig. 60 View FIGURES 55–65 ); from Bougainville Island ( Map 1 View MAP 1 )................................................................................. N. hedigeri sp. nov.
4b - Male ante-humeral patches separated by variably trapezoidal black median area ( Figs 61, 63, 65 View FIGURES 55–65 ); female ante-humeral patches not reverse comma-shaped or bent ( Figs 62, 64 View FIGURES 55–65 )............................................................. 5
5a - Both sexes with ante-humeral patch shorter than one half the length of mesanepisternum ( Figs 61, 62 View FIGURES 55–65 ); from northern and eastern New Guinea ( Map 4 View MAP 4 )............................................................. N. stueberi sp. nov.
5b - Both sexes with ante-humeral patch longer than one half the length of mesanepisternum ( Figs 63–65 View FIGURES 55–65 ); from southern New Guinea ( Map 4 View MAP 4 )....................................................................................... 6
6a - Male with medial and apical margin of ante-humeral patch sinuous or curved and metepimeral patch convex in dorsal half ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 55–65 ) and with abdominal segment 7 dorsally unmarked; known only from Western Province, Palmer River Catchment, upper Fly River basin ( Map 4 View MAP 4 )....................................................................... N. chrismulleri
6b - Male with medial and apical margin of ante-humeral patch almost straight, metepimeral patch not convex in dorsal half ( Fig. 65 View FIGURES 55–65 ) and with abdominal segment 7 with pair of separate or connected bluish spots anterior to a rather diffuse and ill-defined bluish area; female with large bluish antero-dorsal patch on abdominal segment 7; known from Gulf Province, Kikori River basin ( Map 4 View MAP 4 ).......................................................................... N. boonei sp. nov .
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