Species Johnmannia powerae Lambkin & Recsei, 2005

Johnmannia powerae

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Johnmannia powerae label

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

Museums

Regional Maps

• Johnmannia powerae Lambkin, C.L. & Recsei, J.M. in Lambkin, C.L., Recsei, J.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2005. Systematic revision of Johnmannia Irwin and Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae): Atypical metallic stiletto flies from Australian mesic habitats. Zootaxa 866: 1-28 [9].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ANIC29003454 adult ♀ (Malaise trap 1, in creek bed, S. Winterton, N. Power, D. White, 2.x.1998), QLD: Scrub Rd, Brisbane Forest Park [27°25'06"S, 152°50'14"E].
  Paratype(s) QM ANIC29003453, ANIC29003455 2 adult ♀ (Malaise trap 1, in creek bed, S. Winterton, N. Power, D. White, 2.x.1998), QLD: Queensland: Scrub Rd, Brisbane Forest Park [27°25'06"S, 152°50'14"E]; UQIC UQIC040945 adult ♂ (rainforest, Canopy Malaise Trap, 19.ix.97, S. Winterton, N. Power, D. White, A. Hiller), QLD: Mt Glorious Biological Centre, Main Road, Mt Glorious [27°20'S, 152°46'E]; AM MEI025305 adult ♀ (wet sclerophyll forest, 28.viii.1982, G. & T. Williams), NSW: "Lorien." approx. 1 km NNW Lansdowne, via Taree; GDCB MEI033668 adult ♀ (wet sclerophyll forest, 13.x.1992, G. Williams), NSW: 3 km N Lansdowne via Taree [31°47'S, 152°32'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Wings with dark brown opaque triangular basal band; triangulate dark brown opaque line medially, apical half of wing pale brown (Fig. 3D, 5C). Frons with two triangular patches of pale, silver pruinescence lateromedially above antennal tubercule (Fig. 3B, F); broad, medial concavity with lateral, pale silver, pruinescent stripes. Occiput covered with dense, gold pruinescence, less dense dorsally (Fig. 3B–C). Face with silver pruinescence laterally from antennae along compound eye, narrow medially, broadening ventrally on gena, covering anteriorly directed rounded flange of gena at base of compound eye (Fig. 4B). Scutum with lateral, pale silver, pruinescent stripes (Fig. 3C). Tarsomeres with basal orange bands (Fig. 1). Female S8 (Fig. 4D) elongate, rectangular (1.4 x as long as wide). Epandrium (Fig. 5D–E) with long triangulate posterolateral extensions, indented deeply medially on posterior surface. Distiphallus (Fig. 5L–M) broad, smoothly expanded apically, smoothly recurved from base.

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