Laxotela
Creators: name: Winterton, Shaun L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Therevidae
Laxotela

description: Key to Laxotela species
1. Wing extensively mottled or banded; scutum either mottled matte black and silver pubescence, or dark with pale dorsocentral stripes; male distiphallus narrow apically (Figs 2 G, 3G).........................................2
- Wing largely hyaline or uniform smoky infuscate; scutum grey, patterned with dark brown tessellate or interrupted stripes; male distiphallus ornately shaped apically (Winterton & Irwin 1999, figs 2F–G, 5F–G)......................................................................................................................................................................6
2. Scutum patterned with silver, matte black and brown pubescence; epandrium width equal to length along midline; ventral apodeme extending anteriorly to approximately half the length of ejaculatory apodeme (Fig. 2 G).......................................................................................................................................................3
- Scutum patterned otherwise, often dark with pale dorsocentral stripes; epandrium elongate; ventral apodeme of parameral sheath extending anteriorly to approximately end of ejaculatory apodeme (Fig. 3 G)..4
3. Male frons with elongate setae; male abdomen covered with silver velutum; mid and hind tibia with pale setae; slender species ................................................................................................................ plata sp. nov.
- Male frons with short setae; male abdomen lacking silver velutum; tibia with black setae; more robust species ................................................................................................................. holstoni Winterton & Irwin
4. Male and female abdomen with extensive areas of silver velutum (not completely covering abdomen); scutum patterned as in Figure 1, without distinct pale dorsocentral stripes; aedeagus with large lateral flanges on basal portion of distiphallus (Figs 2 F–G) .......................................................... elongata sp. nov.
- Abdomen of male and female without extensive silver velutum covering; aedeagus without flanges or lateral projections on distiphallus (Winterton & Irwin 1999, figs 3E–F, 6F–G)..............................................5
5. Femora pale orange, darkened apically; gonocoxal apodeme shorter than gonocoxite; gonocoxal process shorter than gonostylus; dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath enlarged (Winterton & Irwin 1999, figs 6A– G) ........................................................................................................................... whitei Winterton & Irwin
- Femora black; gonocoxal apodeme length 3/4 of gonocoxite length; gonocoxal process longer than gonostylus; dorsal apodeme reduced (Winterton & Irwin 1999, figs 3A–F) .............. hauseri Winterton & Irwin
6. Male frons wider than ocellar tubercle; patch of dark setae below eye in both sexes; male abdomen with silver velutum; ventral lobe of gonocoxite acuminate, longer than gonostylus (Winterton & Irwin 1999, figs 2A–I) ........................................................................................................... gaimarii Winterton & Irwin
- Male frons narrower than ocellar tubercle; setae below eye pale in both sexes; male abdomen without velutum; ventral lobe of gonocoxite notched apically, shorter than gonostylus (Winterton & Irwin 1999, figs 5A–G) .............................................................................................................. metzi Winterton & Irwin
description: Published as part of Winterton, Shaun L., 2007, New species of Laxotela Winterton & Irwin from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae), pp. 57-64 in Zootaxa 1407 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175536