Pterogrammoides indicus Papp, 1989

Kuwahara, Gregory K., Marshall, Stephen A. & Luk, Stephen P. L., 2025, A revision of Parapterogramma Papp and Pseudopterogramma Papp, with a review of the Parapterogramma genus group of the Pacific and Indomalayan regions (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae, Limosininae), European Journal of Taxonomy 998, pp. 1-124 : 118

Pterogrammoides indicus Papp, 1989

Pterogrammoides indica Papp, 1989: 330 .

Pterogrammoides indicus – Roháček et al. 2001: 216.

Type material

Holotype

INDIA – Meghalaya • ♂; Garo Hills, Rongrengiri ; 400 m a.s.l.; 3 Nov. 1978; C. Besuchet and I. Löbl leg.; ‟tamisage en forêt, au pied de grands arbres”; HNHM.

Paratype

INDIA – West Bengal • 1 ♂; Darjeeling District, Sukna ; 200 m a.s.l.; 7 Oct. 1978; C. Besuchet and I. Löbl leg.; ‟tamisage en forêt”; HNHM .

Material examined

Paratype photo provided by Petra Szöllősi-Tóth, HNHM.

Distribution

Indomalayan: India ( Papp 1989).

Remarks

Pterogrammoides indicus is almost identical to Pt. thaii but apparently has a slightly smaller S6+7 (1.3 × epandrial width) and a more J-shaped (bent in the apical third) postgonite.

Papp’s (1989) description and illustrations of Pt. indicus differ from Pt. thaii only in slight colour differences, slightly thinner legs, shorter wings, and apparently smaller overall genitalia. See comments under the latter species.