Palpada lindneri

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Palpada lindneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Subfamily:
Eristalinae
Tribe:
Eristalini
Subtribe:
Eristalina
Genus:
Palpada
Species:
P. lindneri
Binomial name
Palpada lindneri
Thompson, 1999

Palpada lindneri is a species of flower flies first found in Bolivia. [1] Palpada lindneri is easily distinguished from all neotropical Palpada species by its abdominal pattern.

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Description

This description is based on a female holotype. Its head is black, the face being shiny except for a white section under the antenna; its gena is white; frontal lunule is brownish; the frons is shiny on the ventral half, brown on the dorsal third and yellow. Occiput is white ventrally, becoming yellow dorsally. The antenna are brown; basoflagellomere oval, with small basomedial sensory pit on the inner side. The eye is bare except for 2 dense fascia of short black pile.

The thorax is mainly black; postpronotum orange; mesonotum yellow; postalar callus is orange; scutellum is orange and shiny except medially; pleuron is grayish white; katepisternum is generally pilose with the pile not separated into patches; the ampulla, plumula, calypter and haltere are all orange.

The coxae are black; trochanters are orange and shiny; pro- and meso legs orange and shiny, except with black pile intermixed on apical half; the metafemur is swollen, and dark brown except paler orange on its base and apex; protibia is orange on basal third and brown apically, black elsewhere; mesotibia orange; metatibia brown except yellow on base and orange on apex, swollen; protarsus is brownish orange; meso- and metatarsi orange, yellow pilose.

The wings' epaulets and basicosta are orange pilose; they are hyaline and bare except brownish and microtrichose on their apical half.

The abdomen's dorsum is black except for its yellow apical margins on the 2nd through 4th terga; the 1st tergum is gray, 2nd tergum is gray; 3rd and 4th terga are shiny on basal half, dark brownish medially and yellow on apical half; 5th tergum is shiny on the medial third, gray elsewhere. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Thompson, F. Christian. "A key to the genera of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Neotropical Region including descriptions of new genera and species and a glossary of taxonomic terms used." (1999).
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