Platypalpus subwagneri Raffone

Platypalpus subwagneri Raffone

Platypalpus subwagneri Raffone, 2003b: 51.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE Ƌ, labelled: “ITALY—Abetone (pt)—Ris. Nat. Pistoiesi—Camolino m 1 500, 17.VII—8.VIII.2001 legit Lab. Bosco Fontana, Malaise trap State Forestry Corps—NRBF coll. / Platypalpus subwagneri n. sp. det. Raffone G. 2002 / Holotypus Ƌ” [genitalia dissected] (NRBF). PARATYPES: same data as holotype (1 ♀) (NRBF), same data as holotype (1 ♀) (MSNV).

Notes on type material. Holotype was preserved in ethanol and during this study was dried and mounted on a card. It is well preserved (with left mid leg missing and some large setae broken). Paratype deposited in NRBF has postpedicels of both antennae missing as well as right mid and hind legs and broken large setae. Paratype deposited in MSNV is well preserved with only right foreleg missing. Both holotype and paratypes are specimens of P. exilis.

Remarks. Characters of P. exilis beside those mentioned in several descriptions and specified here include: laterad from vertical setae is usually another part of similar (convergent) setae (when broken and the inclination of setae is not obvious, such specimens may erroneously lead in keys to P. aurantiacus Collin); face very narrow, in middle 5X narrower than width of frons on the level of front ocellus; clypeus narrow, long and lustrous; proboscis usually yellow or yellowish brown, darkened apically; front femur with several preapical anterior and anteroventral bristly-like setae; midtibial spur as long as or slightly longer than width of apical part of tibia; last tarsomere of all legs yellow in basal third to fourth and black to almost black in apical part; katepisternum lustrous up to hind margin; spine-like ventral setae on mid femur on posterior side about 2X longer than those on anterior row; crossveins contiguous or nearly so, basal part of anal vein distinct, CuP only slightly recurrent. Female abdomen almost whitish yellow with last segments including cerci usually darker, also male abdomen paler than thorax, with darker genitalia. Male genitalia: left epandrial lamella elongate, homogeneously short setose along ventral and apical margin, with small projection dorsally in about middle (this projection and corresponding incision is rather less pronounced than illustrated by Chvála 1975); cerci simply digitiform and narrow, right one slightly narrower and longer than left one; right epandrial lamella with small hairy projection apically and with rounded nearly square shaped surstyllus.

Platypalpus subwagneri is considered a new junior synonym of P. exilis.