Platypalpus subpectoralis Raffone

• Main Authors: Barták, Miroslav, Kubík, Štěpán
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Hybotidae; Platypalpus; Platypalpus subpectoralis; Fontana; Parma; Seta; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5688311; https://zenodo.org/record/5688311

Platypalpus subpectoralis Raffone Platypalpus subpectoralis Raffone, 2002b: 38. Type material examined . HOLOTYPE ♀, labelled: “ITALY—Parma—Riserva naturale Guadine-Pradaccio, 18.VII–7.VIII.2001 legit Lab. Bosco Fontana, Malaisetrap sentiero State Forestry Corps—NRBF coll. / Holotypus / Platypalpus subpectoralis n. sp. det. Raffone G. 2001” (NRBF). Notes on type material . Holotype is well preserved, originally stored in alcohol, but during this study was dried and mounted on a card. It is a specimen of P. pectoralis (Fallén). Remarks . Characters of P. pectoralis not previously properly described and specified here include: postpedicel in some specimens narrow, so this segment may be up to three times longer than broad; clypeus narrow and lustrous, gena very narrow and lustrous; katepisternum lustrous up to extreme posterior margin but anterior margin with unusually long microtrichia especially in its dorsal part; postalar seta short but subapical scutellar seta may be subequally as long as apical seta; a row of 2–6 notopleural setae, usually 1–3 of them longer than remaining; midtibial spur clearly developed; vein R1 forms with costa very dark swelling apically; basal part of anal vein well developed. Genitalia illustrated properly by Chvála (1975, figs 264–266): left cercus broadened apically, right surstylus short and broad, nearly semicircular. Platypalpus subpectoralis is considered a new junior synonym of P. pectoralis . : 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 152, 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."]}