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

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185153

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658495

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scientific name

Mitroplatia Enderlein, 1935
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Mitroplatia Enderlein, 1935 View in CoL

Mitroplatia Enderlein, 1935: 236 View in CoL . Type species: Mitroplatia pygmaea Enderlein, 1935 View in CoL .

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 View FIGURES 1 – 8. 1 ). 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 View in CoL species in Morellia View in CoL . See the Afrotropical and Oriental catalogues ( Pont 1977, 1980).]

Emden, F. I. van (1965) Diptera. Vol. 7. Muscidae, Part 1. In: Sewell, R. B. S. & Roonwal, M. L. (Eds), The Fauna of India and the adjacent countries. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 647 pp.

Enderlein, G. (1935) Dipterologica. III. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der naturforschenden Freunde zu Berlin, 1935, 235 - 246.

Peris, S. V. (1961) Una nueva especie de Morellia de Camarones y synopsis de las especies etiopicas (Dipt. Muscidae). Eos, 37, 349 - 359.

Peris, S. V. (1967) Los Muscini de la Guinea Espanola. Claves para la identificacion y notas sobre las especies etiopicas (Diptera, Muscidae). Boletin de la Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural (Seccion Biologica), 65, 21 - 64.

Pont, A. C. (1977) Family Muscidae. In: Delfinado, M. D. & Hardy, D. E. (Eds.), A catalogue of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Vol. III, Suborder Cyclorrhapha (exluding Division Aschiza). The University Press, Honolulu, pp. 451 - 523.

Pont, A. C. (1980) Family Muscidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 721 - 761.

Xue, W. & Chao, C., eds. (1998) Flies of China. Vol. 1. Liaoning Science and Technology Press, Shenyang, 1365 pp.

Zielke, E. (1971) Revision der Muscinae der athiopischen Region. Series Entomologica, 7, 1 - 199.

Gallery Image

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Tribe

Muscini