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Phrudoneura picta Meuffels & Grootaert

Description

Phrudoneura picta Meuffels & Grootaert

(Fig. 5 a)

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.

Notes

Published as part of Bickel, Daniel J., 2013, Phrudoneura (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Australia and Melanesia in Zootaxa 3680 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/218308

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Additional details

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.