Ptilocera paradisea Lindner 1951
Creators: name: Mason, Franco
name: Rozkošný, Rudolf
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Ptilocera
Ptilocera paradisea

description: Ptilocera paradisea Lindner, 1951
(Figs 53, 65, 110–114)
Ptilocera paradisea Lindner, 1951: 221.
Type material. Holotype in Basel (NMB), labelled: " Typus [red label]/ O. Sumba, Melolo, 7.6.1949, Expedition Bühler-Sutter/ Holotypus [handwritten by Lindner]/ Ptilocera paradisea Lindner, det. Lind. [handwritten in red ink]/ HOLOTYPUS 3 Ptilocera paradisea Lindner, 1951: 221. F. Mason & R. Rozkošný rev., 2009 [red label]". Condition: perfect, terminalia dissected and preserved in a small microvial attached on same pin.
Diagnosis. This species is immediately distinguishable by paired submedial longitudinal stripes on presutural area of scutum and extensive patch of golden pile on abdominal tergites 3–5. Wing brownish infuscated, with diffuse pale transverse band in middle.
Description. Male (Figs. 53, 65, 110–114). Length (mm): body 9.0; wing 7.7 (only holotype examined). Head. Upper frons with erect, very short hairs in front of anterior ocellus. Antenna as in Fig. 111, antennal scape brown, pedicel light brown, flagellomeres uniformly dark brown. First two flagellomeres short and densely haired, with sensory pits, basal flagellomere almost twice as long as broad, apical flagellomere 3.5 times as long as preceding flagellomere. Lower frons bare, shining dark brown, with two small triangular silverish tomentose spots. Face covered with erect silverish white pile. Proboscis brown, with whitish hairs. Palpus brown, two-segmented. Postocular area not distinct in upper part and very narrow in lower part of head in profile.
Thorax (Fig. 110) black, densely punctate, with shining golden scattered scales and with two shining, narrow, longitudinal, emerald stripes ending at transverse suture. Postpronotal callus brown, with erect brownish hairs at base; postalar callus blackish, prealar prominence rounded. Scutellum flattened, with slender, yellowish brown spines. Medial spines distinctly longer than half length of scutellum at middle. Anepisternum densely punctate, with very short and appressed brown pile. Wing pattern as in Fig. 65. Wing membrane brownish infuscated, with pale (rather hyaline than yellowish) transverse band from crossvein R-M, through distal half of discal cell to basal part of cell m2. Calypter brown, densely brownish haired along margin. Halter with brown stalk and black knob. Legs: coxa, femur and tibia dark brown, tarsi yellowish brown.
Abdomen (Figs 53, 110) black to dark brown, without obvious reflections, finely punctate, with very fine micropile. Tergite 1 and 2 with brown pile along lateral margins, tergite 3 with paired lateral hair patches consisting of golden pile, similar but dense pilosity extensively covering tergite 4 and almost completely covering tergite 5 (Fig. 110). Sternites brown, mainly bare. Male terminalia (Figs 112–114): Proctiger (Fig. 114) unusually high, subtriangular, cerci not reaching beyond tip of proctiger. Genital capsule (Fig. 112) subquadrate, posterior medial process of genital capsule bilobed, resembling that of P. continua but middle incision more pointed, gonostylus leafshaped as in other species. Posterolateral papillae of aedeagal complex relatively long, with two transverse ridges but without any basal hyaline spines (Fig. 113).
Female. Unknown.
Variation. Unknown.
Material examined. Only the holotype from Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Islands: Sumba) is known.
description: Published as part of Mason, Franco & Rozkošný, Rudolf, 2011, A review of the Oriental and Australasian Ptilocera species (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 3007 on page 13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.278481