Paraplatytropesa argentea Colless 1998, n.sp.

• Main Author: Colless, D. H.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Calliphoridae; Paraplatytropesa; Paraplatytropesa argentea; Queensland; Cape York; Banks Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4657293; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4657293

Paraplatytropesa argentea n.sp. Holotype: male; 12°44'S 143°14'E, 3 km ENE ofMt Tozer, Queensland, 28 June-4 July 1986, D.H. Colless. ANIC No. 6148. The type locality is in the Iron Range area of Cape York Peninsula. Other specimens examined QUEENSLAND: Banks Island, Torres Strait, 3 June 1969, Neboiss, 10 (VM); 12°43'S 143°18'E, 11 km ENE of Mt Tozer, 11-16 July 1986, 10; Middle Claudie River, Iron Range, 29 September 1974, G. Daniels, 1¥ (AM); 15°47'S 145°14'E Shiptons Flat, 18 May 1981, 10, 1 ¥; 15°03'S 145°09'E, 3 kmN ofMtWebb, 2 October 1980, 10; Ellis Beach, N of Cairns, 12 May 1967, 6¥ ¥. Collected by D.H. Colless unless specified otherwise. 104 Records of the Australian Museum (1998) Vol. 50 Male. Head (Figs 22, 23) with cerebrale, vertex and a variable amount of parafrontals pale golden pollinose, this merging into silver pollinosity on lateral and ventral portions of parafrontals and most of parafacials, contrasting strongly with deeper golden pollinosity on lower parafacials, genae and postbuccae; postorbits silver pollinose; occiput metallic blue (but with pale pollinosity in some lights). Interfrons rather pale reddish brown. Palps pale brown. Carina and epistoma pale brown with thin pale pollen. Antennal segments 1 and 2 brown, segment 3 pale brown in vicinity of arista, merging into dark brown on the remainder. Parafrontals with sparse dark setulae, few if any along internal margins; interfrons with several dark setulae, none at margins; postbuccal hairs pale golden, those of occiput, parafrontals and genae brown to black. Genal hairs very sparse. Inner eye margins in frontal view only slightly divergent, in some specimens slightly convex below antenna bases. Carina in lateral view protruding, evenly curved, with notch at junction with epistoma; in facial view rounded, not at all flattened anteriorly, tapering from epistoma towards lunula, or somewhat "pinched" on ventral third. In lateral view gularregion distinctly swollen, but less conspicuous than in other Paraplatytropesa spp. Inner vertical ...