Panops austrae

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Diptera
Familia: Acroceridae
Genus: Panops

Name

Panops austrae Neboiss, 1971 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

• Panops austrae Neboiss, 1971: 209 – Schlinger and Jefferies 1989: 376.

Type material examined

Holotype female, AUSTRALIA: Northern Territory: nr. Mount Olga [-25.3, 130.73], C.A., Paul Genery, ix.1960, picked up dead in sand (Type- T.4177) (NMV).

Other material examined

AUSTRALIA: Western Australia: male, Wialki [-30.483, 118.117], R. P. McMillan, 12.x.1983 (WAM); male, W of Norseman, Eucalyptus woodland, dry gully to salt lake, Malaise trap, C. Lambkin et al., ANIC bulk sample 2184, 1-17.xi.2003 271m [-32.186, 121.721] (ANIC).

Diagnosis

Eye apilose; proboscis equal to head height; body metallic green-blue; antennae yellow-brown; parafacial without marginal pile; postpronotal lobe concolourous with rest of thorax; legs black.

Redescription

Body length: 8.0–10.0 mm (male), 14.5 mm (female). Head with eye apilose; ocellar tubercle relatively flat, medial ocellus present; occiput metallic green-blue, occipital pile dense, white; postocular ridge and gena overlain with grey pubescence; clypeus length equal to oral cavity, brown-black; palpus white or black; margin of oral cavity (parafacial) glabrous; proboscis equal or slightly longer than head height; flagellum dark yellow-orange, suffused with brown, apex in male tapered, narrow apically; scape and pedicel brown or dark yellow. Thorax postpronotal lobe green; scutum metallic green or metallic blue, scutal vestiture dense white pile; scutellum metallic blue-green; pleuron metallic green or metallic blue; coxae black with metallic blue iridescence; femora black; tibiae black or brown; tarsi black; lower calypter white, with brown margin; wing hyaline (male) or slightly infuscate (female), venation dark; vein R4 with spur vein. Abdomen shape rounded globose, much larger than thorax (female) or rounded to conical, not larger than thorax (male), colour metallic green or metallic blue violet, vestiture as minute setae, dense white-silver elongate setae along anterior margin of tergites 2–5.

Comments

Panops austrae is a large, metallic coloured species similar to Panops jade sp. n. and Panops schlingeri sp. n. It is easily distinguished from these species by the longer proboscis and dense white thoracic pile. This species is known from remote, arid regions of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

Taxon Treatment

• Winterton, S; 2012: Review of Australasian spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a revision of Panops Lamarck ZooKeys, 172: 7-75. doi

Images

Figure 21. Panops austrae Neboiss, male, lateral view (partially denuded) [700499]. Body length = 8.0 mm.  Figure 22. Panops austrae Neboiss, male, dorsal view [700502]. Body length = 8.0 mm.  Figure 23. Panops austrae Neboiss, male, anterior view [700498]. Body length = 8.0 mm.  Figure 24. Panops austrae Neboiss, female, dorsal view [700508]. Body length = 14.5 mm.