Species Neodialineura spinosa Winterton, 2009

Neodialineura spinosa Male

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Neodialineura spinosa Male

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Neodialineura spinosa Female

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

Neodialineura spinosa Female

© Copyright Shaun Winterton via Morphbank

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• Neodialineura spinosa Winterton, S.L. 2009. Revision of the stiletto fly genus Neodialineura Mann (Diptera: Therevidae): an empirical example of cybertaxonomy. Zootaxa 2157: 1-33 [23].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC MEI024770 adult ♂ (23.x.1987, vegetated dunes, M.E. Irwin), WA: 1 km E Yanchep Beach [31.525°S, 115.626°E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC MEI024640, MEI024653, MEI024655, MEI024773 3 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (27.x.1987, M.E. Irwin, E.I. Schlinger, white sand), WA: 3 km S Dawesville, at Tim's Thicket Road [32.633°S, 115.633°E]; CAS MEI024646 adult ♂ (23.x.1987, sandy plain with Eucalyptus, M.E. Irwin), WA: Yanchep National Park, near Ranger's Office [31.517°S, 115.683°E]; WAM MEI024790 adult ♀ (10.x.1974, S.M. Wade), WA: Perth, Reabold Hill, City Beach [32.000°S, 115.833°E]; ANIC MEI024829, MEI024835, MEI024839, MEI024847 3 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (21–29.x.1987, swept in heath, M.E. Irwin, E.I. Schlinger), WA: Melaleuca Park, 39 km N Perth [31.950°S, 115.850°E]; CAS MEI024972, MEI024974 2 adult ♀ (30.x.1987, swept in heath, M.E. Irwin, E.I. Schlinger), WA: Nambung National Park, 5 km S Cervantes [30.500°S, 115.067°E]; CAS MEI088354 adult ♂ (24.x.1987, M.E. Irwin), WA: 15 km N Wanneroo [31.750°S, 115.833°E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

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 or with extensive covering of elongate (often dense) setae; female frontal vestiture with short to moderate length setae; male frons width at narrowest point narrower than anterior ocellus but not contiguous; male postocular setae as two or more rows immediately laterad of ocellar tubercle; postocular setae black; parafacia with black setae laterally; antennal scape longer than flagellum, bulbous; scape vestiture densely covered with large, dark setae; flagellum orange-yellow, terminus dark. Thorax. Scutum pubescence uniform grey-tan, rarely grey-tan with brown markings; pleuron with silver-grey pubescence; katatergite with admixed pale and dark setae; coxae pale, overlain with silver-grey pubescence, setae mostly dark; femora uniform yellow (female) or suffused dark brown, vestiture uniform short dark setae (female) or admixed with longer pale setae on fore and mid femora (male); tibia and tarsi dark yellow with apicies brown; wing pale orange infuscate along costal margin and slight infuscation along wing veins; haltere uniform pale orange. Scutal chaetotaxy (pairs): notopleural 3, supra alar 1, post alar 1, dorsocentral 6–8, scutellar 1–2. Abdomen. Male abdomen base colour dark brown dorsally, yellow laterally with silver velutum on abdominal tergites 2–7, vestiture mostly dark setae, elongate laterally; female abdominal markings with tergites dark brown dorsally or variable, usually with pale patch medially on tergite 2, intersegmental membrane usually not distinct from tergite colour, rarely distinctly pale coloured, well defined.

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