Mitroplatia Enderlein, 1935

Nihei, Silvio Shigueo & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2009, The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses, Zootaxa 1976, pp. 1-24 : 13

Mitroplatia Enderlein, 1935

Mitroplatia Enderlein, 1935: 236 . Type species: Mitroplatia pygmaea Enderlein, 1935 .

Diagnosis. Colouration metallic blue to violaceous; wing without maculae. Female with proclinate frontoorbital seta developed or not; parafrons weakly setulose on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Acrostichals 0+1. Posthumeral present; postsutural intra-alars 1; intrapostalar present. Prosternum bare and conspicuously enlarged anteriorly, with a trapezoid shape ( Fig. 8 ). Katepisternals 1+2 (sometimes 1+1). Wing with the Rs node setulose dorsally and ventrally; R4+5 setulose dorsally and usually ventrally; M bent forward towards R4+5. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum. Subcostal sclerite bare. Calcar strong. First abdominal sternite widely setulose.

Distribution (15 species). Afrotropical and Oriental.

References. Afrotropical species: Peris (1961, 1967), Zielke (1971); Oriental: Emden (1965), Xue and Chao (1998). [Most references include the Mitroplatia species in Morellia . See the Afrotropical and Oriental catalogues ( Pont 1977, 1980).]

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. 1. Head, Polietina orbitalis (Stein), female, lateral view. 2. Same, upper frontal view. 3. Head, Polietina major (Albuquerque), male, lateral view. 4. Head, Morellia (Xenomorellia) undescribed sp., female, frontal view. 5. Antenna, Pyrellia albocuprea Villeneuve, inner lateral view. 6. Prosternum, Biopyrellia bipuncta (Wiedemann), anteroventral view. 7. Prosternum, Morellia nigricosta Hough, anteroventral view. 8. Prosternum, Mitroplatia smaragdina (Séguy), anteroventral view. Figures 1 – 2 and 5 after Nihei and de Carvalho (2007 a); Figure 3 after Nihei (2002). Figures 6 – 8 on same scale.