Platypygus Loew
Creators: name: Gharali, Babak
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
name: Almeida, Jorge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Platypygus

description: Key to world species of the genus Platypygus Loew
1. Mesonotum with three black, brown, or orange longitudinal stripes (e. g. Figs. 11 d, 16c)............................. 2
-. Mesonotum with large contiguous black mark, without distinct stripes (e. g. Figs. 8 b, 3c)............................ 9
2. Longitudinal stripes on mesonotum orange................................................................. 3
-. Longitudinal stripes on mesonotum brown or black........................................................... 4
3. Crossvein r-m before middle of cell dm; hairs on thorax and abdomen yellowish white ... (Nearctic). P. americanus Melander
-. Crossvein r-m at about middle of cell dm; hairs on thorax and abdomen black ... (Europe, Mediterranean, Middle Asia)........................................................................................ P. ridibundus (Costa)
4. Longitudinal stripes on mesonotum brown (Fig. 13 b); Sc incomplete, not reaching costa (Fig. 13 e) ... (South Africa, Namibia)..................................................................................... P. natalensis Hesse
-. Longitudinal stripes on mesonotum black (e. g. Fig. 5 b, 7c); Sc complete or incomplete............................ 5
5. Halter knob with black spot on dorsal surface............. (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)............... P. lativentris Loew
-. Halter knob completely yellow, without black spot.......................................................... 6
6. Mesonotum completely bare; antennae completely black; furca of female genitalia without sclerotized plates lateral to genital orifice (Fig. 8 e) ... (Middle East)...................................................... P. kurdorum Paramonov
-. Mesonotum hairy; antennal scape yellow or black; furca of female genitalia with two sclerotized plates lateral to genital orifice (Figs. 2, 22) 7
7. Hairs on mesonotum completely black; frons yellow with distinct or diffused black Y-shaped mark medially (Fig. 5 b) ... (Mid- dle East, Europe) P. chrysanthemi Loew
-. Hairs on mesonotum completely yellow or white; frons yellow, at most with narrow black line medially (Figs. 11 b, 20j) ... 8
8. Mesonotum with black spot laterally posterior to transverse suture (Fig. 20 e); black median stripe on mesonotum usually reaching scutellum; abdominal tergites with fine, long, pale hairs; male genitalia large, well exposed; spermathecal reservoir
acorn-shaped, with prominent cap (Fig. 22) ... (Middle East)....................... P. titanomedea Gharali & Evenhuis -. Mesonotum without lateral black spot (Fig. 11 d); black median stripe on mesonotum ending much before scutellum with straight posterior margin; abdominal tergites with short, dense, bristly black hairs; male genitalia very small; spermathecal res- ervoir obovate, without cap (Fig. 12 a) ... (Caucasus, Middle East, Europe)..................... P. melinoproctus Loew 9. Knob of halter dark brown dorsally ... (China, Nepal, and Thailand)................................. P. l i ma t us Séguy
-. Knob of halter yellow to white, without black coloration dorsally............................................. 10
10. Posterior margin of mesonotum yellow (Fig. 14 c) ... (Caucasus, Mediterranean)....................... P. pumilio Loew
-. Posterior margin of mesonotum at least black medially (Figs. 3 c, 23b).......................................... 11
11. Prescutellar area of mesonotum with triangular black mark (Fig. 3 c) ... (Southern Palaearctic)............ P. bellus Loew
-. Prescutellar area of mesonotum with large oval yellow mark (Fig. 23 b) ... (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)................................................................................................. P. turkmenorum Paramonov
description: Published as part of Gharali, Babak, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Almeida, Jorge, 2013, World synopsis of described species of the genus Platypygus Loew (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Platypyginae), pp. 199-242 in Zootaxa 3745 (2) on pages 202-203, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/248549