Species Neodialineura nitens (White, 1916)

Neodialineura nitens Male

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Neodialineura nitens Male

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Neodialineura nitens Female

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Neodialineura nitens Female

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psilocephala nitens White, A. 1916. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part II. Families Tabanidae and Therevidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 2-60 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM adult ♂ (The type was deposited in personal collection of G.H. Hardy (Australia: Katoomba) but was subsequently destroyed by pests (Winterton, 2009). Known only from a single specimen, collected 30.xi.1913, G.H. Hardy. (White, 1915)), TAS: Hobart.

Generic Combinations

• Neodialineura nitens (White, 1916). —
  Metz, M.A., Webb D.A., & Irwin M.E. 2003. A review of the genus Psilocephala Zetterstedt (Diptera: Therevidae) with the description of four new genera. Studia Dipterologica 10: 227-266 [260]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian South East (TSE)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Head. Frons and occiput pubescence silver-grey with dark brown markings; frons profile flat, wholly pubescent; male frontal vestiture with patch of short setae above antennae; female frontal vestiture with uniform minute setae, rarely with short to moderate length setae; male frons width at narrowest point narrower than anterior ocellus but only rarely contiguous; male postocular setae as single row immediately laterad of ocellar tubercle; postocular setae black; parafacia without setae; antennal scape shorter than flagellum, narrow cylindrical; scape vestiture sparsely covered with short, dark setae; flagellum orange-yellow. Thorax. Scutum pubescence silver-grey velutum with darker grey pattern (male) or grey-tan with brown markings, rarely uniform grey-tan (female); pleuron with silver-grey pubescence; katatergite setae uniform pale, rarely with admixed pale and dark setae; coxae pale, overlain with silver-grey pubescence, coxal setae mostly dark or mostly pale; femora uniform yellow, femora vestiture short dark setae, longer pale setae on fore and mid femora; tibia and tarsi dark yellow with brown apicies; wing hyaline; haltere stem pale, knob mostly brown. Scutal chaetotaxy (pairs): notopleural 3, supra alar 1, post alar 1, dorsocentral 4–7, scutellar 1. Abdomen. Male abdomen base colour darkish; silver velutum on abdominal tergites 2–7, obscured by extensive velutum; male abdomen vestiture mostly elongate pale setae laterally; female abdominal markings with tergites dark brown dorsally; intersegmental membrane distinctly pale coloured, well defined.

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. 2009. Revision of the stiletto fly genus Neodialineura Mann (Diptera: Therevidae): an empirical example of cybertaxonomy. Zootaxa 2157: 1-33 [17]

History of changes