Species Geron australis Macquart, 1840

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• Geron australis Macquart, J. 1840. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxième. – 1er partie. Paris : Roret pp. 5-135. [118].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, NSW: Port Jackson.
• Geron hilaris White, A. 1916. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part III. Families Asilidae, Bombyliidae, Empididae, Dolichopodidae and Phoridae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1916: 148-266 [Date published 30 November 1916] [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, TAS.

Distribution

States

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

Distribution References

Diagnosis

♂. Head: black; face and oral margin bare; vertex black pilose; occiput dense white pilose; frons with argentous tuft of scales lateral to antennal bases, bare elsewhere; antennal segments I and II white pilose as long as pile on occiput; segment III bare; antennal ratio: 2:1:5. Thorax: scutum and scutellum black, white pilose; pleura gray to black, white pilose; halter knob light yellow to white, stem yellowish white. Legs: black to orange-yellow; coxae white pilose; femora with white scales, white pilose ventrally; tibiae with white scales; tarsi bare. Wing: hyaline; veins yellow to brown; vein closing apex of discal cell straight; squama well developed, white, with white fringe. Abdomen: tergites black to brown; dense white pile and sparse white scales on all segments, scales becoming denser laterally on segments II-VII; sternites gray, dense white pilose. Genitalia: basistylus linear, membranous posteriorly with small hooked projection near apex; dististylus slender, hooked; dorsolateral rami thin; epiphallus broad; tip of aedeagus flat; basal apodeme subtriangular.
♀. Similar to ♂ except for the following: frons shining black with silver scales near vertex and above antennal bases; occiput, scutum, scutellum and tergum of abdomen with fine sparse golden yellow tomentum; halter darker than ♂.

Diagnosis References

Evenhuis, N.L. 1979. Studies in Pacific Bombyliidae (Diptera). II. Revision of the genus Geron of Australia and the Pacific. Pacific Insects 21: 13-55 [Date published 30 August] [20]

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