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Theobald, F. V.: A catalogue of the Culicidae in the Hungarian National Museum with description of new genera and species
CATALOGUE OF THE CULICIDAE IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM. i'l ;> This species has also been recorded from British Guiana, Brazil, Argentine, Madras, Perak, Trinidad, Ceylon and the Sudan. Genus URANOTAENIA ABKIB. Diptera Argentina p. 63; Monogr. Culicid. II. p. 241 (1901) THEOBALD. 1. Uranotaenia testacea n. sp. (Plates II and III.) Thorax bright testaceous with azure blue prothoracic lobes ; pleurae brown with a pale blue line ; head dark in the middle, pale blue around the eyes. Abdomen brown, unhanded, venter yellow. Proboscis, palpi and legs brown, the hind and mid tarsi pale, especially the last two segments. J . Head clothed with flat black scales in the middle, azure blue ones around the eyes and at the sides; antennae deep brown, basal joint testaceous, the second joint (Fig. 14.) as long as the two following joints ; palpi and proboscis brown, apex of latter swollen and distinctly hairy. Thorax bright testaceous with narrow-curved dark scales; prothoracic lobes with flat azure blue scales ; scutellum with flat black scales ; metanotum brown, pale in the middle ; pleurae testaceous with a line of pale blue scales. Abdomen brown with brown scales ; yellow ventrally. Legs brown, unhanded with ochreous reflections, the last two or three joints clayey white in certain lights on the mid and hind legs; ungues small, equal and simple. Wings (Plate H» of typical venation and squamose characters (Plate III) ; stem of the first submarginal twice as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior one and a half times as long as the cell ; posterior cross-vein much longer than the mid, sloping backward and close to the base of the upper branch of the fifth long-vein, large clavate scales on the branches of the first submarginal and its stem near the cell, and on both sides of the third long-vein, also some on both sides of the branches of the second posterior cell ; upper costal border very distinctly spinose. Halteres with testaceous stems and deep brown knobs. Length : mm. Annales Musei Xationalis Hungarici. III. Fig. 14. Uranotaenia testacea n. sp. — Basal segments of J antenna.
