Pseudopterogramma fenestrata ( Richards, 1973 ) Kuwahara & Marshall, 2022

Kuwahara, Gregory K. & Marshall, Stephen A., 2022, A revision of the Australian species of Howickia Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae), Zootaxa 5192 (1), pp. 1-152 : 9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5192.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:236A609B-8A6A-47D7-9BB9-E2FDCA5C37E5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7144285

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0F519B74-FFD1-AD34-FF2C-9577FCA6FEBA

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Plazi

scientific name

Pseudopterogramma fenestrata ( Richards, 1973 )
status

comb. nov.

Pseudopterogramma fenestrata ( Richards, 1973) View in CoL NEW COMBINATION

Leptocera (Limosina) fenestrata Richards, 1973: 379 View in CoL .

[As an unplaced species of Limosininae View in CoL ] Marshall, 1989: 607.

Biroina fenestrata (Richards) View in CoL , Roháček et al., 2001: 125.

Comments. When Richards (1973) originally described this species in the (then) subgenus Limosina Macquart, 1835 , he noted that P. fenestrata resembled Pterogramma Spuler, 1924 , as it has patterned wings with a short R 2+3. In the catalog of Australian/Oceanic Sphaeroceridae, Marshall (1989) disagreed with the placement of P. fenestrata as a species of Limosina , but was unable to place the species in any of the known genera at that time. In the world catalog of Sphaeroceridae, Roháček et al. (2001) moved P. fenestrata into Biroina , though they noted that this generic placement was tentative and in need of confirmation.

This species is here moved to Pseudopterogramma on the basis of several characters, most notably the two pairs of large dorsocentral bristles, with the anterior pair located on the transverse suture and almost as long as the posterior pair. Other characters shared between Pseudopterogramma fenestrata and other Pseudopterogramma include patterned wings, a short sinuate R 2+3, costa ending at R 4+5, small (1.2–1.4 mm) body size, mid tibia with two pairs of dorsal setae (at the basal third and apical quarter), banded legs, and a simple hypandrium (lacking the ventral lobe and posterodorsal apodeme found in Howickia ). In Howickia , the dorsocentral bristles are all postsutural, with the anterior pair always at most half the size of the posterior pair. R 2+3 can be short in Howickia but in these species the wing is always infuscate but not distinctly patterned.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sphaeroceridae

Genus

Pseudopterogramma

Loc

Pseudopterogramma fenestrata ( Richards, 1973 )

Kuwahara, Gregory K. & Marshall, Stephen A. 2022
2022
Loc

Biroina fenestrata (Richards)

Rohacek, J. & Marshall, S. A. & Norrbom, A. L. & Buck, M. & Quiros, D. I. & Smith, I. 2001: 125
2001
Loc

Leptocera (Limosina) fenestrata

Richards, O. W. 1973: 379
1973
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