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Colless, Donald H., 2012, The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae), Records of the Australian Museum 64 (3), pp. 167-211 : 172-174

Genus Froggattimyia

Froggattimyia Townsend, 1916:155. Type species F. hirta Townsend, by original designation.

Protomeigenia Townsend, 1916:156. Type species P. aurea Townsend, by original designation. Synonymy by

Crosskey, 1966:97.

The diagnosis is given in the foregoing key.

Key to males of genus Froggattimyia

1 Wing base conspicuously golden-yellow, the colour involving both

membrane and veins and extending at least to apices of cells h, m,

and cu1a; scutellum and most of its setulae also golden-yellow,

forming, with the wing bases, a conspicuous golden, transverse

band, clearly visible to the naked eye. Pollen of head and most

pleural setae bright orange-yellow. Abdomen dark, the lateral

pale areas of tergites 3 and 4 dusky; pollen of tergites 3 and 4

largely confined to median triangles; tergite 5 completely, and

conspicuously, pale ashen pollinose .................................................................... F. carnei sp. nov.

—— Body without such colour pattern, much less conspicuously marked. Scutellum at most dull brown, usually dark brown. Head pollinosity and pleural setae pale golden or the latter dark. Abdomen paler; tergites 3 and 4 extensively pollinose, tergite 5 therefore not conspicuously different from more anterior tergites ...................................................................... 2

2 Legs, including coxae, and all pleural sclerites and hairs uniformly dark. Parafacial fully dark-setulose. Scutellum with apical setae fine, scarcely differentiated. Abdominal tergite 3 (?usually) without differentiated submedian bristles ..................................................................... F. coracina sp. nov.

—— Legs at least partly pale. Other attributes usually different ........................................................... 3

3 Postpronotal lobe with pale brown ground colour and often a similar

transverse band across presutural area of scutum; pleuron often

with extensive areas of pale ground colour across anepisternum,

anepimeron, and upper katepisternum. Scutellum usually with

apical bristles not differentiated, or small and fine, scarcely larger

than adjacent setulae. Parafacial entirely or almost entirely setulose,

bare on at most a narrow strip along the eye margin. Abdominal

syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 only rarely with differentiated sub-

median [?median marginal—see general comments] bristles. Legs

often with extensive dark areas. Terminalia as in Figs 20–22 ....................................................... 4

—— Postpronotal lobe, presutural area of scutum, and almost all of

pleuron with dark ground colour. Scutellum almost always with

well differentiated apical bristles, only a little smaller than preapical

bristles. At least one, usually both, of abdominal syntergite 1+2

and tergite 3 with clearly differentiated pair of submedian marginal

bristles. If legs with extensive dark markings, then parafacial

setulose on dorsal half only. Terminalia various ........................................................................... 5

4 Coxae mainly dark, femora with about basal 40–60% dark. Pleural sclerites and hairs extensively dark ................................................. F. hirta Townsend, dark form

—— Coxae mainly (usually entirely) pale, femora with at most a

trace of darkening at base. Pleural sclerites and hairs usually

extensively pale ................................................................................. F. hirta Townsend, pale form

5 Pleuron with pale hairs except on part or all of anepisternum.

Legs without extensive dark markings. Abdominal tergite 4 often

with pale setulae on ventrolateral areas ......................................................................................... 6

—— Pleural hairs all dark. Legs usually with extensive dark areas

on at least forefemur. Abdominal tergite 4 with dark setulae on

ventrolateral areas .......................................................................................................................... 9

6 Reclinate upper orbital bristles not at all differentiated from

adjacent setae along narrowest part of the frontal vitta, immediately

in front of anterior ocellus. Parafacial setulae usually extending

well on to ventral half of sclerite. Gena usually with mainly dark

setulae. Dorsum of abdomen usually golden pollinose, especially

on tergite 5. Abdominal tergite 4 with mainly pale setulae on

ventrolateral areas. Midfemur usually with 1–4 stout bristles

near centre of anterior surface. Cerci relatively short and stout,

in lateral view apices tapering abruptly, nipple-like, slightly

surpassed by apices of the surstyli; surstylus obliquely truncated

in lateral view, in posterior view with apical part curved outwards;

syntergosternite 6–8 relatively short and stout, its posterior

margin steeply declivitous (Figs 5–7) ......................................................... F. wentworthi Malloch

—— Reclinate upper frontal bristles clearly distinguishable by

stoutness of bristle and/or its socket over the narrowest part of

the frons, between the eyes, often extending to level of anterior

ocellus and sometimes terminating in a distinct prevertical

bristle. Parafacial setulae sometimes confined to dorsal half of

sclerite, or scarcely reaching past its centre. Gena sometimes with

mainly pale setulae. Abdomen with silver or grey pollen dorsally.

Abdominal tergite 4 sometimes with mainly dark setulae on

lateroventral areas. Midfemur sometimes without usual anterior

group of stout bristles; syntergosternite 6–8 more rounded

(except in F. icholsoni) .................................................................................................................. 7

7 Parafacial setulae extending well on to ventral half of sclerite. Terminalia more or less identical with those of F. wentworthi .................... F. nicholsoni Malloch

—— Parafacial with setulae confined to dorsal half or scarcely extending

to ventral half; syntergosternite 6–8 relatively long, its posterior

margin gently sloping .................................................................................................................... 8

8 Cerci short and stout, as in F. wentworthi ..................................................... F. fergusoni Malloch

—— Cerci relatively long and narrow, their apices at least level with, and usually surpassing those of surstyli (Figs 8–12) .................................................. F. vicina sp. nov.

9 Apex of syncercus blunt, curved distally (or dorsally). Surstylus shorter than height of epandrium (Figs 16–19) ........................................................................... 10

—— Apex of syncercus sharply pointed, straight or curved anteriorly (or proximally). Surstylus as long as, or longer than, height of epandrium (Figs 14, 15, 75 ) .................................................................................................................. 11

10 Apex of cercus, in posterior view, broad and truncate ..................................... F. truncata sp. nov.

—— Apex of cercus, in posterior view, sharply pointed and curved anteriorly ....................................................................................................... F. woodorum sp. nov.

11 Apex of surstylus sharply pointed and curved anteriorly (or ventrally) (Fig. 14) ......................................................................................... F. aurea (Townsend)

—— Apex of surstylus straight and rounded apically ( Fig. 75 ) .......................... F. macdonaldi sp. nov.

Figures

Figs 75–78.Lateral views ofFroggattimyia-Anagonia male terminalia.(75) Froggattimyia macdonaldi sp. nov.,(76) Anagonia teratostylus sp. nov., (77) A. minor sp. nov., and (78) A. perplexa sp. nov.