Platypalpus submaculus Raffone

• Main Authors: Barták, Miroslav, Kubík, Štěpán
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Hybotidae; Platypalpus; Platypalpus submaculus; Fontana; Parma; Seta; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688310; https://zenodo.org/record/5688310

Platypalpus submaculus Raffone Platypalpus submaculus Raffone, 2002b: 37. Type material examined . HOLOTYPE Ƌ, labelled: “ITALY—Parma—Riserva naturale Guadine-Pradaccio, 18.VII-7.VIII.2001 legit Lab. Bosco Fontana, Malaisetrap sentiero State Forestry Corps—NRBF coll. / Holotypus Ƌ / Platypalpus submaculus n. sp. det. Raffone G. 2001” [genitalia dissected] (NRBF). Notes on type material . Holotype is well preserved (only left hind leg missing), stored in ethanol, but during this study was dried and mounted on a card. It is a specimen of P. macula (Zetterstedt). Although Raffone (2002b) described the postpedicel as yellow, it is in fact brown, not much paler than both basal segments. Remarks . Characters of P. m a c u l a not previously correctly described and specified here include: face lustrous; gena narrow and lustrous; palpus with rather long setae also along its base; katepisternum lustrous up to extreme anterior and posterior margins; postpronotum without strong seta but often with 1–3 setae distinctly longer (but not stronger) than remaining ciliation. Genitalia illustrated by Chvála (1975, figs 274–275), he only overlooked small dorsoapical finger-like projection on left epandrial lamella (correctly recognized by Raffone 2002b); right surstylus long, with broadened basal part and narrower apical part and with small spine-like internal projection on base of narrow part; left cercus with two tips apically, one directed ventrally (in lateral view it looks like crayfish claw). Platypalpus submaculus is considered a new junior synonym of P. m a c ul a . : Published as part of Barták, Miroslav & Kubík, Štěpán, 2016, New species and new synonyms in European Platypalpus (Diptera: Hybotidae), pp. 142-154 in Zootaxa 4175 (2) on page 151, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/160480 : {"references": ["Raffone, G. (2002 b) Su Alcuni Ditteri della Riserva Naturale di Guadine Pradaccio (Parma) (Insecta Diptera Hybotidae). Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna, 17, 35 - 42.", "Chvala, M. (1975) The Tachydromiinae (Dipt. Empididae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 3, 1 - 336."]}