Platymetopius fidelis ( Distant, 1918 )

Platymetopius fidelis ( Distant, 1918) View in CoL ( Fig. 1A–H)

Mahalana fidelis Distant, 1918:63 View in CoL . Type locality: India.

Platymetopius fidelis ( Distant, 1918) View in CoL : Webb & Godoy, 1993:424; Viraktamath & Yeshwanth, 2017:48.

Material examined. Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, 1♂, Paras , 34°39'6.0408"N, 73°26'50.9028"E, 12-viii-2019, Sweeping hand net, coll. Bismillah Shah. GoogleMaps

Measurements. Body length male (this study): 4.7 mm; Viraktamath & Yeshwanth (2017): 6.3 mm.

Diagnosis. Body color yellowish-brown, mottled with dark brown patches and whitish or smoky spots on pronotum and forewings ( Figs 1A–B). Frontoclypeus with faded white transverse streaks ( Fig. 1D). Pronotum almost twice longer than vertex median length ( Figs 1A, 1C). Gena usually with a small, dark dot near the lorum ( Fig. 1D). Forewings longer than abdomen, and as long as the hind wings ( Figs 1A–B). Subgenital plate longer than pygofer ( Fig. 1E). Aedeagus broad at base in dorsal view, shaft cylindrical with apex truncate; a pair of lateral appendages arising near the basal portion of shaft; appendages longer than shaft, uniformly curved dorsally ( Figs 1G–H). For detailed description, see Viraktamath & Yeshwanth (2017).

Distribution. Pakistan, India ( Distant, 1918; Viraktamath & Yeshwanth, 2017).