Acupalpa boharti
| Notice: | This page is derived from the original publication listed below, whose author(s) should always be credited. Further contributors may edit and improve the content of this page and, consequently, need to be credited as well (see page history). Any assessment of factual correctness requires a careful review of the original article as well as of subsequent contributions.
If you are uncertain whether your planned contribution is correct or not, we suggest that you use the associated discussion page instead of editing the page directly. This page should be cited as follows (rationale):
Citation formats to copy and paste
BibTeX: @article{Shaun2011ZooKeys95, RIS/ Endnote: TY - JOUR Wikipedia/ Citizendium: <ref name="Shaun2011ZooKeys95">{{Citation See also the citation download page at the journal. |
Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Therevidae
Genus: Acupalpa
Name
Acupalpa boharti Shaun L., 2011 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype female, AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: Norseman, [-32.167°, 121.75°], 24.xi.1979, R. M. Bohart (MEI029500) (UCDC). Paratypes. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: male, female, Norseman, [-32.167°, 121.75°], 24.xi.1979, R. M. Bohart (MEI029499, 029501) (UCDC).
Diagnosis
Body size relatively small; frons rounded above antenna; scutum glossy black with bronze pubescence; tibia yellow with dark apices, fore tibia white-cream; abdomen black, without velutum.
Description
Body length= 5.0–6.0 mm. Head. Frons wider than ocellar tubercle, profile rounded above antenna, glabrous; frontal vestiture as minute setae, texture smooth; face broadly rounded, glabrous; gena with pale setae; parafacial glabrous; mouthparts elongate, projecting anteriorly, or sometimes relatively short; palpus brown-black, acuminate; occiput glabrous, glossy black; antennal base flat; frons roughly level with eye in profile; antenna longer than head; scape brown or black, length shorter than flagellum, with sparse black setae; flagellum black or brown, base of flagellum with short dark setae. Thorax. Scutum glossy black, overlain with sparse bronze pubescence; scutellum overlain with dense, matt-black pubescence; pleuron black, overlain with sparse, silver-grey pubescence; wing markings weakly infuscate with pale band midway, hyaline ocellations basally; haltere knob orange-yellow; coxae black; femora brown to black; tibia yellow, apices dark on mid and hind tibia, fore tibia white-cream; tarsi black; mid and hind basitarsi pale basally. Scutal chaetotaxy: np, 4; sa, 1; pa, 1; dc, 4–6; sc, 1. Abdomen. Black, silver velutum absent, terminalia dark.
Comments
Acupalpa boharti sp. n. is a small, dark species similar to Acupalpa miaboolya sp. n. This species is known only from the type series collected in southwestern Australia. The small body size and leg and body colouration are diagnostic for this species.
Etymology
This species is named in honour of the collector, R. M. Bohart.
Original Description
- Shaun L., W; 2011: Revision of the stiletto fly genera Acupalpa Kröber and Pipinnipons Winterton (Diptera, Therevidae, Agapophytinae) using cybertaxonomic methods, with a key to Australasian genera ZooKeys, 95: 29-79. doi
Images
|
![Figure 6. Acupalpa boharti sp. n., female, lateral view [576266]. Body length = 5.0 mm.](/wiki/File:ZooKeys-095-029-g006.jpg)
