Apotropina rufescens (Duda, 1934)

Fig. 21A-D

Parahippelates rufescens Duda, 1934: 49.

Lasiopleura (Lasiopleura) rufescens: Malloch 1936: 24; 1940: 272.

Type locality and distribution.

Australia: Northern Territory (Darwin: Palmerston).

Examined material.

Syntype ♀ Label transcription: "Palmerston, N. Australien, XI. 1908; coll. Lichtwardt; P. rufescens D., ♀ d. Duda; Typus; http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/5c8578"; Deposited in the MfN .

Taxonomic notes.

This species has a dark brown body and largely yellowish head and legs, superficially similar to A. pruinosa, but is distinctive for its plumose arista with the pilosity at its basal half almost the length of the postpedicel (Fig. 21A-C). Only known from the type locality. Chaetotaxy as observed: 2 vibrissae; 3 weak proclinate interfrontal setae; 2 postpronotal setae; 2 scapular setae; 1+1 notopleural setae; short weak reclinate biseriate acrostichal row; 1+3 dorsocentral setae; 1+1 supra-alar setae; scutellum with 1 discal setula; katepisternal seta missing/indistinct. Original description, translation, and subsequent taxonomic notes in Suppl. material 1.