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Phrudoneura picta Meuffels & Grootaert
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Phrudoneura picta Meuffels & Grootaert
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Phrudoneura picta Meuffels & Grootaert, 2002: 74.
Type material. The male holotype of Phrudoneura picta was collected at Rivière Bleue, New Caledonia (MNHN, not seen).
Additional material. NEW CALEDONIA: 3, Province Sud, Col d’Amieu, 7.5 km NW Sarraméa; 21.585°S, 165.819°E, 300 m; 25.XI.-7.XII.2000, Malaise trap, Irwin, Schlinger, & Webb (INHS).
Remarks. Phrudoneura picta is rare in collections, and only two male specimens are known from Province Sud. The thorax and legs are almost entirely yellow apart from a dark brown spot on the mesepimeron.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Phrudoneura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meuffels & Grootaert
- Species
- picta
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Meuffels, H. J. G. & Grootaert, P. (2002). Diptera Dolichopodidae of New Caledonia. 2. The genus Phrudoneura, Meuffels & Grootaert, 1987. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, (n. s.), 38, 71 - 78.