Megaselia apozona Schmitz, 1936
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903371813 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D24787B6-FFE9-FFE8-FD99-FBA1FE605573 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Megaselia apozona Schmitz |
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Megaselia apozona Schmitz View in CoL
( Figure 20 View Figure 20 )
Megaselia apozona Schmitz, 1936 .
Megaselia subfuscipes Disney et al., 1990 View in CoL , not Schmitz, 1935. Disney, 2000.
This species is very close to M. subfuscipes View in CoL , and may possibly be a subspecies of the latter. Furthermore it is somewhat variable. For example, the haltere knob is typically brown, but occasionally it is straw yellow. Clarification of the recognition and redescription of the male (Disney 2000) has allowed recognition of the hitherto unknown female, which is described below.
Female
Head similar to male except postpedicels are smaller (diameter in male about 0.20 mm, but only about 0.12 mm in female), consequently the similar labrum is about 0.8 times as broad as postpedicel, whereas in the male it is only about 0.4–0.5 times as broad. Thorax as male. Abdominal tergites brown with short hairs, T5–T7 being as Figure 20A View Figure 20 . Venter brownish grey, and with fewer than 40 hairs below segments 3–6. Sternite 7 absent. Posterolateral lobes at rear of sternum 8 each represented by three hairs only. Epiproct and cerci whitish yellow and latter about twice as long as broad. With four rectal papillae. Furca not apparent. Dufour’s crop mechanism about 3.8 times as long as greatest breadth and tapering from just before midpoint to its narrowly rounded rear end. Legs similar to male. Wings as male with length 1.8 mm, costal index 0.39, costal ratios 4.1: 1.5: 1, and costal cilia 0.14 mm long. Otherwise it and haltere as male.
Previous records
Tenerife.
New records
Female , Tenerife , Volcan de Fasnia , 27–31 May 1984 (P. Ashmole, CUMZ – 10-67); two males, La Palma , west side, Barranco de la Galga , laurel woodland, 28 May 1996 (A. Stark, CUMZ – 10-145, 146); five males, Parc National de la Caldera de Taburiente , Playa de Taburiente , 750 m, 20 December 1999 ( T. Domingo-Quero, MNCNM – 19-147); male, Roque de la Cumbrecita, 1377 m, 22 September 1999 ( T. Domingo- Quero, MNCNM – 19-147) .
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Cameroon University, Museum of Zoology |
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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics |
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