Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Rhodesiella magna, Chloropidae rom Australia
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| JariF |
Posted on 03-05-2017 15:38
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 2072 Joined: 20.01.06 |
Hi, is this small beauty a strange Chloropidae or what ? The specimen is from Queensland, Australia. Jari JariF attached the following image:  [101.31Kb] Edited by JariF on 04-05-2017 17:02 |
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| piros |
Posted on 03-05-2017 22:23
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Member Location: Szeged, Hungary Posts: 1803 Joined: 04.01.12 |
Looks like Rhodesiella magna here: https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=64626 Greetings, Henrik |
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| JariF |
Posted on 04-05-2017 16:59
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Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 2072 Joined: 20.01.06 |
Oh yes, thank You so much  Jari |
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| von Tschirnhaus |
Posted on 22-11-2022 21:13
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Member Location: Bielefeld, Germany Posts: 454 Joined: 04.11.07 |
Chloropidae, Rhodesiellinae: Rhodesiella ?magna (Becker, 1911), dscribed as Prionoscelus magnus. It is known from Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya and the Salomon Islands. Only a part of the many Rhodesiella spp. possess such swollen hind femora and eyes rounded along their whole hind edge (which normally is slightly concave). |
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| von Tschirnhaus |
Posted on 26-11-2022 14:48
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Member Location: Bielefeld, Germany Posts: 454 Joined: 04.11.07 |
Chloropidae, Rhodesiellinae: Rhodesiella magna (Becker, 1911) is correct. The two simultaneous descriptions of magnus and femoralis from [Papua] „New Guinea“ by Becker (described into the genus Prionoscelus Becker) are extremely similar and let not decide to which of both taxa the photographed specimen could belong. But the problem is irrelevant as Duda (1934, Tijdschr. Ent. 77: 55-161 on p. 51 and 60) after studying the types explicitely synonymized the junior name femoralis with magnus by adding two explained asterisks on p. 60. That fact was overlooked by Sabrosky and later authors with the result that for R. magna further collection records from Cairns, Queensland and the isle of Samar, Philippines [published by Frey 1923, Notul. ent. 3: 99-100] exist. In the Oriental Catalogue (Sabrosky 1977) also the Solomon Islands are for the first time listed for R. magna. Helpful, now to have photographs of this rarely recorded species.
Edited by von Tschirnhaus on 26-11-2022 15:51 |
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