The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae)
Creators: name: Colless, Donald H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Genus Froggattimyia    
 Froggattimyia Townsend, 1916:155. Type species F. hirta Townsend, by original designation.   
 Protomeigenia Townsend, 1916:156. Type species P. aurea Townsend, by original designation. Synonymy by   
Crosskey, 1966:97.  
The diagnosis is given in the foregoing key.  
  Key to males of genus Froggattimyia    
1 Wing base conspicuously golden-yellow, the colour involving both  
membrane and veins and extending at least to apices of cells h, m,  
and cu1a; scutellum and most of its setulae also golden-yellow,  
forming, with the wing bases, a conspicuous golden, transverse  
band, clearly visible to the naked eye. Pollen of head and most  
pleural setae bright orange-yellow. Abdomen dark, the lateral  
pale areas of tergites 3 and 4 dusky; pollen of tergites 3 and 4  
largely confined to median triangles; tergite 5 completely, and  
 conspicuously, pale ashen pollinose.................................................................... F. carnei sp. nov.   
—— Body without such colour pattern, much less conspicuously marked. Scutellum at most dull brown, usually dark brown. Head pollinosity and pleural setae pale golden or the latter dark. Abdomen paler; tergites 3 and 4 extensively pollinose, tergite 5 therefore not conspicuously different from more anterior tergites...................................................................... 2  
 2 Legs, including coxae, and all pleural sclerites and hairs uniformly dark. Parafacial fully dark-setulose. Scutellum with apical setae fine, scarcely differentiated. Abdominal tergite 3 (?usually) without differentiated submedian bristles..................................................................... F. coracina sp. nov.   
—— Legs at least partly pale. Other attributes usually different........................................................... 3  
3 Postpronotal lobe with pale brown ground colour and often a similar  
transverse band across presutural area of scutum; pleuron often  
with extensive areas of pale ground colour across anepisternum,  
anepimeron, and upper katepisternum. Scutellum usually with  
apical bristles not differentiated, or small and fine, scarcely larger  
than adjacent setulae. Parafacial entirely or almost entirely setulose,  
bare on at most a narrow strip along the eye margin. Abdominal  
syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 only rarely with differentiated sub-  
median [?median marginal—see general comments] bristles. Legs  
often with extensive dark areas. Terminalia as in Figs 20–22....................................................... 4  
—— Postpronotal lobe, presutural area of scutum, and almost all of  
pleuron with dark ground colour. Scutellum almost always with  
well differentiated apical bristles, only a little smaller than preapical  
bristles. At least one, usually both, of abdominal syntergite 1+2  
and tergite 3 with clearly differentiated pair of submedian marginal  
bristles. If legs with extensive dark markings, then parafacial  
setulose on dorsal half only. Terminalia various........................................................................... 5  
 4 Coxae mainly dark, femora with about basal 40–60% dark. Pleural sclerites and hairs extensively dark................................................. F. hirta Townsend, dark form   
—— Coxae mainly (usually entirely) pale, femora with at most a  
trace of darkening at base. Pleural sclerites and hairs usually  
 extensively pale................................................................................. F. hirta Townsend, pale form   
5 Pleuron with pale hairs except on part or all of anepisternum.  
Legs without extensive dark markings. Abdominal tergite 4 often  
with pale setulae on ventrolateral areas......................................................................................... 6  
—— Pleural hairs all dark. Legs usually with extensive dark areas  
on at least forefemur. Abdominal tergite 4 with dark setulae on  
ventrolateral areas.......................................................................................................................... 9  
6 Reclinate upper orbital bristles not at all differentiated from  
adjacent setae along narrowest part of the frontal vitta, immediately  
in front of anterior ocellus. Parafacial setulae usually extending  
well on to ventral half of sclerite. Gena usually with mainly dark  
setulae. Dorsum of abdomen usually golden pollinose, especially  
on tergite 5. Abdominal tergite 4 with mainly pale setulae on  
ventrolateral areas. Midfemur usually with 1–4 stout bristles  
near centre of anterior surface. Cerci relatively short and stout,  
in lateral view apices tapering abruptly, nipple-like, slightly  
surpassed by apices of the surstyli; surstylus obliquely truncated  
in lateral view, in posterior view with apical part curved outwards;  
syntergosternite 6–8 relatively short and stout, its posterior  
 margin steeply declivitous (Figs 5–7)......................................................... F. wentworthi Malloch   
—— Reclinate upper frontal bristles clearly distinguishable by  
stoutness of bristle and/or its socket over the narrowest part of  
the frons, between the eyes, often extending to level of anterior  
ocellus and sometimes terminating in a distinct prevertical  
bristle. Parafacial setulae sometimes confined to dorsal half of  
sclerite, or scarcely reaching past its centre. Gena sometimes with  
mainly pale setulae. Abdomen with silver or grey pollen dorsally.  
Abdominal tergite 4 sometimes with mainly dark setulae on  
lateroventral areas. Midfemur sometimes without usual anterior  
group of stout bristles; syntergosternite 6–8 more rounded  
 (except in F. icholsoni).................................................................................................................. 7   
 7 Parafacial setulae extending well on to ventral half of sclerite. Terminalia more or less identical with those of F. wentworthi.................... F. nicholsoni Malloch   
—— Parafacial with setulae confined to dorsal half or scarcely extending  
to ventral half; syntergosternite 6–8 relatively long, its posterior  
margin gently sloping.................................................................................................................... 8  
 8 Cerci short and stout, as in F. wentworthi..................................................... F. fergusoni Malloch   
 —— Cerci relatively long and narrow, their apices at least level with, and usually surpassing those of surstyli (Figs 8–12).................................................. F. vicina sp. nov.   
9 Apex of syncercus blunt, curved distally (or dorsally). Surstylus shorter than height of epandrium (Figs 16–19)........................................................................... 10  
—— Apex of syncercus sharply pointed, straight or curved anteriorly (or proximally). Surstylus as long as, or longer than, height of epandrium (Figs 14, 15, 75).................................................................................................................. 11  
 10 Apex of cercus, in posterior view, broad and truncate..................................... F. truncata sp. nov.   
 —— Apex of cercus, in posterior view, sharply pointed and curved anteriorly....................................................................................................... F. woodorum sp. nov.   
 11 Apex of surstylus sharply pointed and curved anteriorly (or ventrally) (Fig. 14)......................................................................................... F. aurea (Townsend)   
 —— Apex of surstylus straight and rounded apically (Fig. 75).......................... F. macdonaldi sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Colless, Donald H., 2012, The Froggattimyia-Anagonia Genus Group (Diptera: Tachinidae), pp. 167-211 in Records of the Australian Museum 64 (3) on pages 172-174, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.64.2012.1590, http://zenodo.org/record/4684127