Phrudoneura
Creators: name: Bickel, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Phrudoneura

description: Key to male Phrudoneura from Australia and Melanesia
Phrudoneura males are readily recognized by their abbreviated vein M, which ends in the membrane well before reaching the wing margin. This key to Phrudoneura should suffice for the species under consideration. However, there are undescribed species in the Papuan region where confirmation will require more care.
1 Thorax and abdomen mostly dark brown.................................................................. 2
- Thorax and abdomen with significant areas of yellow cuticle.................................................. 4
2 Coxae II and III mostly yellow; basal two thirds of FIII yellow; lower postorbitals yellow; surstylus short with pinnate modified seta and other setae as figured; cercus setose, subtriangular (Figs 1 b, 4b) (Australia)................. P. collessi sp. nov.
- Coxae II and III, and FIII mostly dark brown; postorbitals entirely black............................................ 3
3 Scape with distinct setae on distal dorsal surface; all coxae brown; FI mostly brown; halter brown (Figs 4 c–f) (Papua New Guinea)........................................................................... P. popondetta sp. nov.
- Scape dorsally bare; CI yellowish; FI yellow; halter yellow (Fig. 5 b) (New Caledonia)....................... P. obscura
4 Femur III entirely yellow.............................................................................. 5
- Femur III basally yellow with distal brown maculation....................................................... 6
5 Notopleuron with shining ivory-coloured pruinosity, and just ventrad with broad dark brown stripe across pleura; thorax with brown, black and yellow pattern, and abdomen dark brown and yellow (Figs 6 a-b) (New Caledonia)............ P. maculata
- Notopleuron without ivory-coloured pruinosity, mesonotum, scutellum and pleura almost entirely yellow; abdomen basally yel- low with terga 5 and 6 brownish (Fig. 5 a) (New Caledonia)............................................... P. p i c t a
6 Ventral postorbital setae distinctly pale yellow; antenna mostly yellow; thorax mostly yellow with posterior mesonotum and scutellum brown metallic blue-green reflections; surstylus prolonged with curved setae as figured; cercus setose, elongate sub- triangular (Figs 1 a, 4a) (New Guinea, Solomon Is, Australia)........................................ P. abbreviata
- Postorbitals entirely black or brownish; antenna with some brown colour; thorax variously coloured.................... 7
7 Abdomen with distinct pattern, terga 2–4 mostly dark brown with pale yellow anterior and posterior margins, with tergum 5 dark brown; cercus digitiform and elongate, extending beyond hypopygium; halter club infuscated (Fig. 5 d) (New Caledonia)............................................................................................ P. matilei
- Abdomen without such pattern, terga usually unicolorous; cercus shorter, curved or subtriangular; halter club yellow...... 8
8 Hypopygium and associated abdominal segments 7 and 8 entirely pale yellow; abdominal terga 1–5 dark brown with tergum 4 yellowish laterally; apical half of FIII dark brown (Fig. 5 c) (New Caledonia)................................ P. parva
- Hypopygium mostly brown with only cercus yellow; abdominal tergal colour various; apical third of FIII dark brown.... 9
9 TII with posterior row of six short erect setae spaced along length; tergum 1 and the basal half of tergum 2 yellow, remaining terga dark brown (Figs 3 a, 6d) (New Caledonia)............................................. P. hibernalis sp. nov.
- TII without posterior row of erect setae; all abdominal terga dark brown; (Figs 3 b, 6c) (New Caledonia)... P. adusta sp. nov.
description: 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