Species Plecia (Plecia) crenula Hardy, 1968

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• Plecia crenula Hardy, D.E. 1968. Bibionidae (Diptera) of New Guinea. Pacific Insects 10: 443-513 [478].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH ♂ adult, Mount Finnigan, Shiptons Flat, Cape York Peninsula, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AMNH ♂ adult (12.IX.1948, Tate), Mt Finnegan, Cape York Pen., Rossville Creek Camp, 350 m; UH ♂ adult (12.IX.1948, Tate), Mt Finnegan, Cape York Pen.,Rossville Creek Camp, 350 m.

 

Introduction

This species is known only from Cape York Peninsula. Hardy included it in his study of Bibioinidae of New Guinea because he considered it closely related to P. patula Hardy, 1968, from New Guinea. Females are unknown.

The species is not included in Hardy's (1982) key to Australian Plecia, nor is it mentioned in the text.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

Diagnosis

This species from the Cape York Peninsula is obviously closely related to Plecia patulafrom New Guinea. It belongs in the Plecia ruficornis complex but has the posterolateral lobes of the sternum very short, not over 0.25 as long as the remainder of the sternum. It is differentiated from patula by having the posterolateral lobes indented at apices, and the claspers wider than long, rather truncate apically.

 

Diagnosis References

Hardy, D.E. 1968. Bibionidae (Diptera) of New Guinea. Pacific Insects 10: 443-513

 

General References

Hardy, D.E. 1968. Bibionidae (Diptera) of New Guinea. Pacific Insects 10: 443-513

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Aug-2010		30-Aug-2010	MOVED
16-Nov-2011		26-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
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