Genus Atrichochira Hesse, 1956

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• Atrichochira Hesse, A.J. 1956. A revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. Part III and Appendix to Part I. Annals of the South African Museum 35: 465-972 [911].

  Type species:

   Exoprosopa pediformis Bezzi, 1921 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Channel Country (CHC) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Yellow or red flies with wings completely infuscated. Round head, distinctly yellow or yellowish-red; with facial region extensive, very deep tentorial fissures; oral cavity short, narrowed apically, very short proboscis; no foveal depression. Antennal PP a long tapering cone, more than 4x length of the pedicel, BSM absent or more rarely reduced. No paler laterothoracic stripe; very reduced thoracic and scutellar bristles, prealar bristles shorter than surrounding vestiture or absent; pectinate Ma on collar, AN, LT, MT, and T1. Fore-tarsal claws not reduced; very sparse, small, straight, tarsal microchaetae. Wings broad, short, subopaque yellow to lightly yellow, darker around veins, darker basally and costally; venation with i-r1, i-r2 absent. Abdomen subquadrate, broad, short, bluntly truncate, no glittering or white scales. Epandrium with distinct posterolateral flanges and narrow basolateral flanges that do not curve apically. Gonocoxae forming a rounded shell with slight subapical and medial narrowing, enclosing the aedeagal complex; without thick setae; short linear LAEA; rami reduced; short linear EJA, not extending beyond G margins; hook-shaped GS; EP very broad triangle apically, laterally curved ventrally. T8 apodeme a thick sclerotised edge; SP without lateral processes, no long papillae, endplates very large, simple; SR long, narrow, thin-walled, usually linear, without an apical bend, with small scattere4d dimples.

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