Species Dilophus discretus Hardy, 1982
- 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
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
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