Species Geron flavocciput Evenhuis, 1979

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• Geron flavocciput 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 ANIC ♂ (20.ii.1959, Z. Liepa), ACT: Canberra.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ (21.x.1949, S.J. Paramonov), NSW: Trangle - Nyngan; ANIC ♂ (23.i.1930, L. Graham), ACT: Black Mt; ANIC ♀ (26.iii.1930, A. Tonnoir), ACT: Black Mt, Exp. Plots; ANIC 2♂ (23.iii.1930 & 13.ii.1948, M. Fuller, S.J. Paramonov), ACT: Blundell's; ANIC 4♂, 1♀ (15.i.1934, 20.ii.1959, L.M. Mackerras, Z. Liepa), ACT: Canberra; ANIC ♂ (14.ii.1965, Liepa), ACT: Uriarra State Forest; ANIC ♂ (26.x.1949, Paramonov), NSW: nr Bourke; ANIC ♀ (21.xii.1931), NSW: Como Bay; ANIC ♂ (25.xi.1949, Paramonov), NSW: Mt Boppy, nr Cobar; ♀ (4.xii.1925, Mackerras & Gundamair), NSW: National Park; AMSA ♂ (16.ii.1963, D.K. McAlpine), NSW: Wilson's Val, Snow Mts; ANIC ♂ (18.xi-3.xii1930, Mackerras), QLD: Meteor Downs nr Springsure.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Distribution References

Diagnosis

♂. Head: face and oral margin brown, bare; frons black, bare; vertex black, black pilose; occiput black, black hair posterior to vertex, pale yellow elsewhere, white scales ventrolaterally; gula gray, white pilose; antennal segment I with brown pile % as long as segment; segment II with brown pile 1/2 as long as segment; segment III bare; antennal ratio: 2.5:1:4. Thorax: scutum and scutellum black, white to pale yellow pile overlying recumbent golden tomentum; pleura gray to black, white pilose and tomentose; halter stem yellow, knob dark brown. Legs: coxae gray, white pilose and tomentose laterally; fore femur black, sparse white scales; mid and hind femora orange basally becoming black apically, black hair ventrally, orange scales dorsally; tibiae and tarsi black to brown, bare. Wing: hyaline; veins brown; r-m crossvein at middle of discal cell; vein closing apex of discal cell sigmoid; R4 curved upward at wing margin; squama brown, fringe white. Abdomen: tergites black, white to pale yellow pile overlying mat of golden recumbent pile; sternites gray, white pile overlying white tomentum; apex black, intermixed black and white pilose. Genitalia: basistylus linear-ovate, membranous at apex with short hairs ventrally and laterally at contact with dorsolateral rami; dorsolateral rami broad at contact with basistylus, thin near epiphallus; epiphallus slender, straight to aedeagal tip; tip of aedeagus truncate; basal apodeme club-shaped.
♀. Similar to ♂ except for following: frons, face and oral margin gray; frons sparse white tomentose; antennal segment I with white pile; halter knob lighter brown than in ♂.

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