Genus Bonjeania Irwin & Lyneborg, 1989

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bonjeania Irwin, M.E. & Lyneborg, L. 1989. Family Therevidae. pp. 353-358 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [356] [replacement name].
• Lonchorhynchus White, A. 1916. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part II. Families Tabanidae and Therevidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1915: 2-60 [33] [preoccupied Wiman, 1910].

  Type species:

   Anabarhynchus nitidifrons Macquart, 1950 by subsequent designation, see Mann, J.S. 1929. Revisional notes on Australian Therevidae. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 6: 17-49 [45].

Introduction

Bonjeania was revised by Winterton et al. (2000), expanding the number of described species to 10. Since then, another eight additional species from Australia have been described (Winterton 2007c). Winterton et al. (2001) diagnosed the genus in a phylogenetic context using molecular and morphological data, placing Bonjeania in the Parapsilocephala clade with Patanothrix, Acatopygia and Parapsilocephala. The single spermatheca in the female, unique amongst Therevidae and most Asiloidea, is diagnostic for the genus. The greatly elongate aedeagus and gonocoxal apodemes in the male genitalia are also characteristic for the genus, although not present in some species such as B. segnis, B. jefferiesi and B. argentea. Bonjeania is distributed throughout all of Australia.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Nandewar (NAN), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Tas: Flinders (FLI), Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; ACT, SA, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, Qld: Gulf Plains (GUP) ; NT: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC)

Diagnosis

Antenna positioned low on frons; antenna shorter than head length; head shape in profile either rounded or with frons and face protruding anteriorly; male occiput concave to convex with single row (rarely multiple rows) of postocular setae; female occiput convex with multiple, poorly defined rows of postocular setae; wing cell m3 closed; wing hyaline to dark infuscate, never strongly banded; wing infuscation usually sexually dimorphic; anteroventral subapical seta absent on hind femur; fore and hind femora with velutum patches; all femora of approximate equal length; posterior margin of abdominal tergites 1–4 often with thickened band of velutum orientated anteriorly; medial atrium present; gonocoxite with velutum (often on membrane bordering or covering medial atrium); gonocoxal apodemes usually greatly elongate, often greater than four times length of gonocoxite, sometimes shorter than gonocoxite; distiphallus usually extremely long and thin; dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath poorly sclerotised, sometimes reduced or absent; ejaculatory apodeme and lateral ejaculatory apodeme greatly enlarged; single spermatheca; spermathecal sac simple, shape spherical or near so (rarely reduced) (Winterton 2007c).

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. 2007. New species of Acraspisoides Hill & Winterton and Bonjeana Irwin & Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae), with the description of a genus. Zootaxa 1438: 1-25

General References

Winterton, S.L. 2007. New species of Acraspisoides Hill & Winterton and Bonjeana Irwin & Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae), with the description of a genus. Zootaxa 1438: 1-25

Winterton, S.L. & Skevington, J.H. in Winterton, S.L., Skevington, J.H., Irwin, M.E. & Yeates, D.K. 2000. Phylogenetic revision of Bonjeania Irwin & Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae). Systematic Entomology 25: 295-324

Winterton, S.L. in Winterton, S.L., Yang, L., Wiegmann, B.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytinae subf. n. (Diptera: Therevidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 26: 173-211

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