Species Geron cabon Evenhuis, 1979

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• Geron cabon 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] [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (viii-x.1952, "H.M.S. Campania"), WA: Montebello Islands, Hermite I & Trimouille I.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ♀ (10-18.ii.1956, R.E. Turner), WA: Perth; AMSA ♀ (10.i.1961, M.S. Moulds), WA: Perth.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Diagnosis

♀. Head: frons, vertex and occiput black; frons dense white tomentose from vertex to bases of antennae; vertex bare; occiput sparse white pilose and tomentose. Face shining brown, bare, well developed above oral margin, oral margin light yellow, bare; gula gray, white pilose; antennal segments I and II yellowish brown, sparse, short white pilose; antennal segment III black, bare; antennal ratio: 2.5:1:4. Thorax: scutum and scutellum brownish black; scutum with sparse pale yellow pile overlying shorter recumbent white to pale yellow pile; scutellum pale yellow pilose; pleura gray-black, sparse pale yellow pilose and tomentose; halter yellow. Legs: coxae gray-black, white pilose and tomentose; fore femur brownish black, white pilose ventrally at base, white scales along entire length; mid and hind femora orange-yellow, white pilose ventrally, sparse white tomentose mesally and laterally; fore tibia brownish black, bare; mid and hind tibiae orange-yellow, bare; fore tarsi black, bare; mid and hind tarsi brownish black. Wing: hyaline; veins yellow; r-m crossvein at a spot 2/3 beyond base of discal cell; vein closing apex of discal cell slightly sigmoid; squama light yellow, fringe white. Abdomen: tergites brownish black, dense white pile on segment I; abdominal tergites II-VII with sparse white pile; sternites brown, sparse white pile overlying dense white tomentum; apex of abdomen brown with white hair. Genitalia: not dissected.
♂. Unknown.

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