Trichopeza longipennae (Miller, 1923)

Wahlberg, Emma, 2019, Revision and morphological analysis of the Ragadidae (Insecta, Diptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 521, pp. 1-19 : 13

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.521
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3489110
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scientific name	Trichopeza longipennae
status

Treatment

Material examined of Trichopeza longipennae

Lectotype

NEW ZEALAND • 1 ♀; Otira ; 10 Jan. 1920; NZAC 0 4021412.

Paralectotype

NEW ZEALAND • 2 ♀♀; same data as for lectotype; NZAC 0 4021441, NZAC 0 4021437 .

Other material NEW ZEALAND • 1 ♂; Mount Arthur , Flora Street; 3000 ft; 20 Nov. 1969; B.M. May leg.; on surface; NZAC • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; NZAC .

Description

Eyes pubescent ( Fig. 7B View Fig ); males dichoptic. Scape with setae; postpedicel tapering; stylus tapering.

Epipharyngal blades present; ventroapical comb on labrum absent. Postgena bare or with setae ( Fig. 7B View Fig ),

not spine like. Prosternum fused with proepisternum forming a precoxal bridge ( Fig. 7E View Fig ); laterotergite

bare. Stout spine like setae on anterior face of fore coxa present; spine like setae on inner ventral margin

of fore trochanter absent; tubercle on fore coxa absent ( Fig. 7F View Fig ); male fore tarsal claws present. In wings,

costal bristle present; subcosta abruptly incomplete; R 4+5 branched; CuA recurved ( Fig. 9C View Fig ). Females: tergite 10 undivided. Males: postgonites as fused processes from hypandrium; ventral surstylus position

apical; apex of phallus membranous.

Distribution

This genus is known from Chile, west Australia and New Zealand ( Sinclair 2016).