Metopina blaxteri Disney, 2008, sp. nov
| Autor: | Disney, Henry L. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.6231625 |
| Popis: | Metopina blaxteri sp. nov. (Figs 2) Female. Frons and thorax brown. Frons with four SAs, a pair of antials but no ALs. POs slightly further apart than either is from a ML bristle. Eyes with height about 1.5 x width of postpedicel. Postpedicels subglobose, light brown and without SPS vesicles. Palps straw yellow and with 5���6 longer bristles and half as many shorter hairs. Labrum pale and only about 0.6 x as broad as a postpedicel and labella reduced. Scutellum with a single pair of bristles only. Abdominal tergites brown and T 4 to T 7 as Fig. 2. Venter yellowish to brownish grey with hairs below segments 3���7, but those on 3 and 4 are very few in number. Cerci almost colourless and at most twice as long as greatest breadth. Legs straw yellow but for brown tips of hind femora. Wing 0.71��� 0.72 mm long. Costal index 0.51���0.52. Costal ratios 0.66���0.67: 1. Thick veins pale grey. 4���6 extremely pale and 7 not apparent. Membrane very lightly tinged grey. Material. Holotype female, Indonesia, Sulawesi-Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, Toraut Forest, Malaise trap, 28���31 January 1985, R. H. L. Disney (UCZM, 16-21). Paratypes, 1 female as holotype except 30 March 1985 (16���29); 1 female as holotype except 21���31 July 1985, A. Kirk-Spriggs (National Museum of Wales, 19���96). Etymology. Named after Captain Bruce Blaxter, a member of the Project Wallace support team. Published as part of Disney, Henry L., 2008, Review of Oriental Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae), pp. 23-38 in Zootaxa 1937 on page 25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184963 |
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