Genus Taenogera Kröber, 1912

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Regional Maps

• Taenogera Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 116-125 [118] (key).

  Type species:

   Taenogera longa Kröber, 1912 by subsequent monotypy, see Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 148-159 [150].

  Secondary source:

   Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 148-159 [150] (description).

Introduction

There are now five species in the genus Taenogera since the description of two new species from female specimens collected in Queensland (Winterton, 2007b). These finely built therevids are often patterned with brilliantly contrasting gold, silver or white pubescence on the head, thorax or abdomen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, Tas: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Male frons width almost equal to female, fine pale setae present dorsally; multiple rows of postocular setae in male and female, occiput with silver, white or gold pubescence; abdomen often with triangular patches of silver velutum laterally on tergites 2–4; wing cell m3 open; fore and hind femora without elongate velutum patches; wing largely hyaline or smoky infuscate, sometimes darkened along anterior margin; distiphallus broad, parallel sided, dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath broadly ‘T’-shaped; velutum patches absent on gonocoxites (Winterton, S. L. 2007b).

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. 2007. New species of Nanexila Winterton & Irwin and Taenogera Kröber from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae). Zootaxa 1413: 55-64

Winterton S.L. & Irwin, M.E. in Winterton S.L., Irwin, M.E. & Yeates, D.K. 1999. Phylogenetic revision of the Taenogera Kröber genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae), with descriptions of two new genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 274-290

General References

Winterton, S.L. 2007. New species of Nanexila Winterton & Irwin and Taenogera Kröber from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae). Zootaxa 1413: 55-64

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