Lasioptera nodosae Skuse, 1888

Kolesik, Peter & Gagné, Raymond J., 2016, Revision of early taxa of Australian gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Zootaxa 4205 (4), pp. 301-338 : 321-322

Lasioptera nodosae Skuse, 1888

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Lasioptera nodosae Skuse, 1888: 130 [ Fig. 11 h].

Material studied. Syntype females, “Homebush [NSW]”. All three available females were mounted, with following surviving body parts. Female 1, designated here as lectotype (ANIC 29-38452), has folded single wing, the thorax with three legs, and a complete abdomen. Female 2 (paralectotype ANIC 29-38453) has a damaged single wing and one leg. Female 3 (paralectotype ANIC 29-38454) has the head lacking flagellomeres, the thorax with two legs and an entire abdomen.

Associated gall. The types were “bred from deformed buds of Melaleuca nodosa , obtained in November (Masters)”, in ANIC.

Description (based on lectotype female). Wing size not measurable. Palpiger large; only first two palpal segments remaining, of equal size, setose, microtrichose; claws toothed, bent beyond midlength, empodia as long as claws, pulvilli half length of empodia; ovipositor on eversible part with laterodistal group of 36 flattened setae, some flared near midlength; cercus with 41 large, hooked setae dorsally, 47–50 small, hooked setae laterally and straight setae posteriorly.

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FIGURE 11. Lasioptera miscella Skuse. a – d: female holotype caught in flight (Skuse 1888); e: male reared from leaf stalk gall on Eucalyptus haemastoma (Skuse 1890); f – g: male and pupa reared from leaf stalk gall on E. camaldulensis (Kolesik unpublished). (a) palpus with palpiger, (b) wing (partially folded), (c) last tarsomere with claw and empodium, (d) sixth flagellomere, (e) sixth flagellomere, (f) terminalia in dorsal view with gonostylus separately in ventral view, (g) antennal horns in ventral view. Lasioptera nodosae Skuse. (h) end of ovipositor (from Kolesik 2014).