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Parapalaeosepsis plebeia (de Meijere, 1906)

(Originally described as Sepsis)

Male

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Parapalaeosepsis plebeia. Male alcohol-vouchered specimen.

Deposited at:  Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Yuchen Ang
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Diagnosis

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Diagnostic illustrations for adults

Adapted from:

Duda O (1926). Monographie der Sepsiden. (Dipt.). II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 40: 1-110. and Zuska J (1970). A revision of the genus Parapalaeosepsis (Diptera, Sepsidae). Acta entomologica bohemoslovaca 67(1): 50-61.

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Morphoglossary

HeadThoraxAbdomen(Male)Abdomen(Female)

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Higher sepsids": Parapalaeosepsis

Synonyms

PARAPALAEOSEPSIS PLEBEIA de Meijere 1906 (as Sepsis). Australia: New South Wales, Sydney. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Zuska, 1970: 58, in Magyar Természettudomanyi Museum Allattara, Budapest, Hungary.

Source:

Ozerov 2005, World Catalogue of the Family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera), Zoologicheskie issledovania 8.

Distribution

Australasian: Australia (Australian Capital Territory, Lord Howe Is., New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia), Indonesia (New Guinea Is.), Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Arch., New Guinea Is.), Solomon Islands.

Source:

Ozerov 2005, World Catalogue of the Family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera), Zoologicheskie issledovania 8.

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