Species Dilophus discretus Hardy, 1982

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• Dilophus discretus Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855 [830].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Mount Gingera, ACT.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ ♂ adult; 2♀ ♂ adults (AM/BPBM).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Mount Gingera and Mt Ginini, ACT, and Mount Kosciuszko, NSW.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

Diagnosis

m-cu crossvein and base of vein M, lacking and hind tarsi slender. Legs entirely dark reddish brown to blackish; by body pile pale yellowish; wing 4.5 mm; eyes normal; displaced 5th spine on front tibia placed just slightly below row of 4. Rostrum of the female is well developed, distinctly longer than eye. In male hind tarsi slender; and spines of the front tibia arranged 4: 1., rostrum produced slightly beyond bases of antennae, but less than 0.5 the length of eye.

 

Diagnosis References

Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Nov-2011		01-Oct-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)