Acupalpa miaboolya
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Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Therevidae
Genus: Acupalpa
Name
Acupalpa miaboolya Shaun L., 2011 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype male, AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: 14.5 km N Carnarvon, Miaboolya Beach, [-24.76°, 113.65°], 4.x.1969, H. E. Evans, R. W. Matthews. (MEI080305) (ANIC). Paratype. AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: female, same data as holotype (MEI080301) (MCZ).
Diagnosis
Frons profile rounded above antenna; antenna brown to black; scutum glossy black with pubescent stripes of grey and brown; pleuron black; wing faintly infuscate; femora and tibia dark, fore tibia pale distally; abdomen black, without silver velutum.
Description
Body length= 5.0–6.5 mm. Head. Frons wider than ocellar tubercle, profile rounded above antenna, pubescence sparse silver-grey, without setae, surface texture smooth; face broadly rounded, glabrous; gena with pale setae (female) or dark setae (male); parafacial glabrous; mouthparts relatively short (approximately equal to head length), or elongate and projecting anteriorly; palpus brown-black, acuminate; occiput glabrous, glossy black; antennal base flat; frons roughly level with eye in profile; antennal length approximately equal to head; scape light brown to black, length approximately equal to flagellum, scape with sparse black setae; flagellum black, base of flagellum with short, dark setae. Thorax. Scutum black, overlain with stripes of grey and brown pubescence; scutellum overlain with sparse grey pubescence; pleuron black, overlain with sparse silver-grey pubescence; wing largely hyaline, faint band midway (male) or infuscate with pale band midway, hyaline ocellations basally (female); haltere knob white; coxae black, overlain with silver pubescence; femora brown to black; tibia brown; fore tibia pale distally; tarsi black, mid and hind basitarsi pale basally. Scutal chaetotaxy: np, 3; sa, 1; pa, 1; dc, 3; sc, 1. Abdomen. Black, overlain with bronze pubescence, silver velutum absent; terminalia dark.
Comments
Acupalpa miaboolya sp. n. is a relatively small, dark species from Western Australia very similar to Acupalpa boharti sp. n. This species can be differentiated from the latter based on scutal pattern; the scutum has grey and brown stripes in Acupalpa miaboolya sp. n. while the scutum of Acupalpa boharti sp. n. has more uniform brown-bronze pubescence.
Etymology
This species is named after the region in which the specimens were collected, Miaboolya beach, on the north-central coast of Western Australia.
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
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![Figure 13. Acupalpa miaboolya sp. n., male, anterolateral view [576253]. Body length = 5.0 mm.](/wiki/File:ZooKeys-095-029-g013.jpg)
