Species Geron fumipennis Evenhuis, 1979

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• Geron fumipennis 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] [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (13.x.1938, Papuan-Australian Exped.), QLD: Redlynch.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 6♂, 1♀ (x.1913, E. Brunetti, no further data); BMNH 4♂, 1♀ (13.x.1938, Papuan-Australian Exped.), QLD: Redlynch; AMSA ♀ (20.xii.197l, McAlpine, G.A. Holloway & D.P. Sands), QLD: Claudie Riv, 1 mi [1.6 km] W of Mt Lamont; ANIC 2♀ (10.xii.1930, A.L. Tonnoir), ACT: Black Mt; ANIC 2♀ (18.ii.1931 & 6.i.1961, L.F. Graham & D.H. Colless), ACT: Blundell's; CAS ♀ (29.xi.1962, I000m, E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro), NSW: Dandahara Crk, Gwydir Hwy; AMSA ♀ (18.i.1964, D.K. McAlpine), NSW: National Park; AMSA ♀ (22.i.1963, McAlpine), NSW: Wentworth Falls, Blue Mts.

  Type locality references:

  Evenhuis, N.L. & Greathead, D.J. 1999. World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Leiden, Netherlands : Backhuys xlviii+756 pp. [41].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Diagnosis

♂. Head: face, frons and oral margin brown, bare; vertex black, black pilose; occiput black, black pilose posterior to vertex, white pilose elsewhere; antennae brown; segments I and II with short black and white pile; segment III bare; antennal ratio: 2:1:4. Thorax: black, sparse white to yellow pilose; halter stem brown, knob yellow. Legs: coxae black, white pilose; femora brown, white pilose ventrally; tibiae and tarsi brown, bare. Wing: tinted smoky brown; veins yellow brown; r-m crossvein at middle of discal cell; vein closing apex of discal cell sigmoid; squama brown, fringe white. Abdomen: tergites black, sparse white pilose; sternites brown to black, sparse white pilose. Genitalia: not dissected.
♀. Similar to ♂ except for following: frons and face black; halter stem and knob brown.

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