Insects of Samoa and other Samaon terrestrial arthropoda. Pt. 6, Fasc. 2, Nematocera / by F.W. Edwards.
- Edwards, F. W. (Frederick Wallace), 1888-1940.
- Date:
- [1928?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Insects of Samoa and other Samaon terrestrial arthropoda. Pt. 6, Fasc. 2, Nematocera / by F.W. Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![M*:M.\KKA. 'J‘J ltd. Trcntepohlia (Mongoma) samocnsis Alcxaiidci'. Ihill. Eld. S()i\, wi, |i. Ill, I polii : .Aj)i;i and Maloloh'lci. IM s|»('ciiii(‘iis m all, ii., xi. xii. Tiitiida : I’ago l*ago, 1 Q, 1 l.xii.l!*!.’.-). l^‘(•o^d(‘d hy .Alcxaiidi'r only IVoin Apia. TIu' (•ln('l diagnostic l('atni'(‘s <»l tins spcci(‘s ai'c ilu' following : I’i'acscnt iini wliollv dai’lc blown. lAnnoia c|■('alny wliit(' loi-abont I ?nni. at. 1 Ik* ti])s. Tibiae* nai'i'owlv whitish at the base*, anel ea’e*amy lor about l*b mm. at the* tips. Tarsi nnitormlv jeale breewn. breent femeti'a with a le*w leengish bristles near the base*: beneath ; peestei'ieer I'emeira witheeiit bristly sjeines. Wings rather streengly tingeel with grev. A\ ing-h‘ngth (i-b l)*b mm. Alexander elescribeel the stigma as elark l)re)wm, but in merst eef tlie s])ecimens l)efore me it is quite ineonsjeieaious : nea' is the wdng-ti]) elistine-tly elarkeneel. In most of tlie examples of this s])ecies brouglit ])ack by Messrs. Buxte)n anel Hopkins, Sc reaches only slightly beyonel the base of r, anel Scd is farther from the tip than stated by Alexander. 5)7. Trentepohlia (Mongoma) fuscistigma, sp. n. $. Head dark gTey. Neck blackish. Antennae and palpei blackish, labella ochreous. Flagellar segments almost cvlinelrical, over three times as long as broad, without distinct verticils. Thorax nearly bare, shining, dark browm above, sieles of praescutiim and middle of scutum ochreous ; pronotum darker browm. Pleurae mainly light ochreous. Abdomen dark brown ; cerci ochreous, rather long and not very strongly curved. Legs (hind pair only remaining in case of type) somewhat stouter than in the allied species ; coxae and trochanters oclmeous ; femora dark browm, whth the tips (1-5 mm.) white, and numerous short spinules beneath on basal hfth ; tibiae (including base) dark browm, with the tips (1*5 mm.) white ; tarsi dark brownish. Wings nearly clear, veins con¬ spicuously dark ; stigma dark brown ; whng-tip also rather distinctly (.larkened : a faint seam over Cu\a, Ciu and base of discal cell. Sc extending well beyond base of r, which is bordered with brown and meets more than its own length before the fork. Discal cell nearly three times as long as its greate.st breadth ; base of cell d/3 retracted almost to middle of discal cell ; basal section of d/o much shorter than m; Ckq« at base of discal cell; Ch.> meeting An about half its length distant from wing-margin, llalteres brownish. Wing- O](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29809071_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
