C. januariusSkuse, 1889


Original description of C. januarius by Skuse 1889.

To this description can be added:
Head: AR about 3.0,, palps crumpled, but segment 3 about 160 µm; clypeus about 0.69 times the width of the antennal pedicel, with about 16 setae.
Thorax: length 1.05 mm, depth 0.51 mm, width 0.91 mm.  Setae: Acrostichal not clear; Dorsolateral at least 13, Prealar 4, Scutellar ant. row about 8, post. row about 10.
Wing: VR about 1.04, SCf on brachiolum 2.
Halteres about 320 x 110 µm. Leg lengths and proportions (µm):

 
Fe
Ti
Ta1
Ta2
Ta3
PI
1100
800
-
-
-
PII
1120
1000
560
280
220
PIII
1240
1280
880
700
400
 
Ta4
Ta5
LR
F/T
BR
PI
-
-
-
1.38
-
PII
160
120
0.56
1.12
-
PIII
240
120
0.69
0.97
-

Type locality: New South Wales - Wheeny Creek (33.45°S, 150.67°E).

Morphologically very similar to a number of other described species, some unplaced and put as synonyms by Freeman (1961), others grouped as the C. alternans-group.

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