Curtonotum pauliani : Tsacas 1974
Creators: name: Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H.
name: Wiegmann, Brian M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Curtonotidae
Curtonotum
Curtonotum pauliani

description: Curtonotum pauliani Tsacas, 1974   
Figs 127, 151, 188, 286, 289, 292, 331.  
 Curtonotum pauliani: Tsacas, 1974: 715; figs 7a–d (p. 716), fig. 8b (p. 718). Type locality: [Madagascar] “Nosy Mitsio”. Curtonotum pauliani: Kirk-Spriggs (2008c: 246, fig. 6, 251).   
 Curtonotum pauliani: Kirk-Spriggs (2011); figs 12, 25, 38, 69, 72, 75, 90, 103.   
 Remarks: This species was redescribed and figured by Kirk-Spriggs (2011), only figures are included here for comparative purposes: head and thorax (Fig. 127); frons (Fig. 151); wing (Fig. 188); male terminalia (Figs 286, 289, 292).   
 Differential diagnosis. Curtonotum pauliani belongs to a group of ten species here ascribed to the uncinatum species-group that are virtually identical externally and are only separable based on minor differences in the male phallus (see Differential diagnosis under C. uncinatum sp. n. for details). Curtonotum pauliani can be separated from other species in the species-group by reference to the above key.   
 Type material examined: MADAGASCAR: holotype ♂, “ Madagascar Nord-Ouest / Nosy Mitsio / 13– 14.I.[19]60 / R. Paulian // INSTITUT / SCIENTIFIQUE / MADAGASCAR [pale grey card] // HOLOTYPE [red card] // CURTONOTUM / pauliani / Holotype ♂ n.sp. / L. TSACAS DET. 1973 [printed & handwritten] // MUSÉUM PARIS // Curtonotum / pauliani ♂ / Tsacas, 1974 / A.H. Kirk-Spriggs vidit 2006” [head missing] (MNHN). In fair condition, head, right fore leg, left fore tarsus and hind leg missing; re-staged on nu-poly mount; dissected, abdomen and terminalia in micro-vial pinned beneath specimen. Paratypes (all labelled: “ PARATYPE [red card] // CURTONOTUM / pauliani / n.sp. / L. TSACAS DET. 1973 [printed & handwritten] // Curtonotum / pauliani ♂ [or ♀] / Tsacas, 1974 / A.H. Kirk-Spriggs vidit 2006”): MADAGASCAR: 1♀, same labels as holotype, except: “ ALLOTYPE [red card] // CURTONOTUM / pauliani / n.sp. / L. TSACAS DET. 1973 [printed & handwritten]” [wing detached, glued to card]; 2♂, same labels as holotype [1 head missing]; 1♀, same labels as holotype, except: “EXEMP. / DESS. [printed; orange card]”; 1♀, same labels as holotype, except: “ouile gameha / ma tres large / Anomalié ♀ [handwritten]”; 1♂, “ Madagascar Nord-Ouest / dct. Majunga / forêt Ankarafantsitka [= Ankarafantsika] 120m / XII-[19]59 / Raharizonina // INSTITUT / SCIENTIFIQUE / MADAGASCAR [pale grey card] // MUSÉUM PARIS” [head missing]; 1♂, “MUSEUM PARIS / MADAGASCAR / PROV. D’ANALALAVA / MAROMANDIA / R. DECARY 1922 [grey card] // PARATYPE [red card] // Specimen / missing from mount / 2006”; 1♂, 1♀, same labels, except: “Pr A18 / ♂ [handwritten] [head missing]” (all MNHN).   
 Additional material examined (both labelled “ Curtonotum pauliani Tsacas, 1974, det. A.H. Kirk-Spriggs 2011 ”): NAMIBIA: 1♂, Namibia: OPUWA DIST., Ekuju village: Kunene R., 17°19'30"S 13°48'56"E, 11– 12.x.1999, [A.H.] Kirk-Spriggs, [T.] Pape, [W.] Hauwanga, Malaise traps, riverine forest (NMNW). SOUTH AFRICA: 1♂, 6664, SO. AFRICA: Natal, 15 km SE Rorke’s Drift, 28°30'S, 30°30'E, 30.v.1982, R.M. Miller (NMSA).   
 Distribution. Madagascar, Namibia and South Africa (Fig. 331). The only species known to occur in the continental Afrotropical Region and on the island of Madagascar.   
 Bionomics. In southern Africa the species occurs in the Nama Karoo and Drakensburg Afromontane Grassland and Woodland major habitat types; Deserts and Xeric Shrublands and Montane Grasslands vegetation types (Appendix III). This species has been sampled in a Malaise trap in riverine forest in Namibia. A detailed account of habitat associations in Madagascar was provided by Kirk-Spriggs (2011).
description: Published as part of Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H. & Wiegmann, Brian M., 2013, 
  A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Schizophora; Curtonotidae). Part IV — the continental Afrotropical species of  Curtonotum  Macquart, with descriptions of thirteen new species and a combined phylogenetic analysis of the Curtonotidae  , pp. 1-166 in Zootaxa 3684 (1) on pages 121-122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3684.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5298914