Species Allograpta alamacula Carver, 2003

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• Allograpta alamacula Carver, M. in Carver, M. & Thompson, F.C. 2003. Two new species of Syrphidae (Diptera) from Australia [Zwei neue Schwebfliegenarten (Diptera, Syrphidae) aus Australien]. Studia Dipterologica 10: 37-41 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (24.vii.1996, P. De Barro, ex. Aleurocanthus t-signatus (Maskell)), Qld: Indooroopilly [27°.28'S 15°3.2'E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ (1.vi.1966, Z. Leipa), Qld: Clayton Gully, 2.5 miles East of Cunningham's Gap; ANIC ♂ (24.x.1926), NSW: Sydney, Wahroonga; USNM ♂ (24.x.1926), NSW: Sydney, Wahroonga,; ANIC ♂ (9.x.1969, Common & Upton), NSW: Macquarie Pass.

  Type host:

   Aleurocanthus t-signatus Maskell [Aleyrodidae] (immatures on Acacia sp.)

Generic Combinations

• Allograpta alamacula Carver, 2003.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Adult. Head. Face [Facial structure as in type species, obliqua SAY], not produced, with low tubercle, yellow except narrow brownish-black medial vitta which does not reach antennal bases, white pilose; tubercle distinct, convex; gena yellow; lunule black medially, yellow laterally; frontal triangle yellow laterally, brown medially, black pilose; frons black except narrowly yellow laterally, shiny on ventral 1/3, dull black pollinose dorsomedially; ventral triangle black, black pilose; vertex black, black pilose; occiput black, grayish-white pollinose, white pilose ventrally, yellow pollinose and brownishyellow pilose on dorsal 1/3; antenna orange except basoflagellomere brownish on dorsoapical 2/3, black pilose; arista brown; male holoptic.
Thorax: Postpronotum yellow; scutum shiny, black except yellow laterally, continuously yellow from postpronotum to scutellum, yellow pilose; postalar callus yellow, yellow pilose; scutellum convex apically, black except yellow base and margins, black pilose; subscutellar fringe absent; pleuron black except yellow dorsad to procoxa, posterior 1/3 anepisternum, dorsal half katepisternum, katepimeron, katatergum; pleuron yellow pilose; metasternum black, bare; plumula yellow, calypter yellow; halter orange. Wing: Hyaline except brown anteroapical macula and dark stigma; microtrichose except bare cells C, R, BM, CuP, basal half of cell R1, basal 1/3 of cell R2+3, base of cell DM and CuA1, base of anal lobe; alula broad, about as broad as cell BM, microtrichose. Legs: Coxae and trochanters brownish black, white pilose; pro and mesofemora yellow to brownish yellow, white pilose except black pilose dorsoapically; metafemur brown to black except yellow base, black pilose except pale pilose basally; pro and mesotibiae yellow, white pilose; metatibia black, black pilose; tarsi black, black pilose.
Abdomen: 1st tergum yellow basally and laterally, black posteromedially, white pilose; 2nd tergum black except basolateral corners yellow and with yellow oblique fasciate macula on medial 1/3, with maculae broadly separated medially, apical 1/5 shiny, basal 1/4 subshiny, elsewhere dull black pollinose, black pilose except yellowish-white pilose laterally; 3rd and 4th terga black except arcuate yellow fasciae, black pilose except pale pilose laterally; 5th tergum black except basomedial yellow vittate maculae, black pilose; 1st sternum black, shiny, white pilose; 2nd-4th sterna black medially, yellow laterally, white pilose; male genitalia (fig. 2) black, black pilose.
Length: Body, 6.7–6.8 mm; wing, 5.1–5.5 mm.

General References

Mengual, X. & Thompson, F.C. 2015. Australian Allograpta Osten Sacken (Diptera, Syrphidae). ZooKeys 513: 65-78 [67, figs 1,17]

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