Apotropina rufescens (Duda, 1934)

Ang, Yuchen, Lumbers, James & Riccardi, Paula R., 2023, A conspectus of Australian Apotropina (Diptera, Chloropidae) with the description of two new species, ZooKeys 1187, pp. 261-299 : 261

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.

Figures

Figure 21. Apotropina rufescens (Duda) syntype ♀ (5 c 8578) A habitus, right lateral view B habitus, left lateral view C habitus, dorsal view D specimen labels.