Species Geron inflatus Evenhuis, 1979
- Geron inflatus 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] [31].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ (23.ii.1936, K.R. Norris), WA: Rottnest Island.
Paratype(s) ANIC 6♀ (23.ii.1936, K.R. Norris), WA: Rottnest Island.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)
Diagnosis
♀. Head: face, frons and oral margin gray, bare; vertex brown with few black hairs; occiput brown, expanded posteriorly more than normal, sparse white to pale yellow pilose and tomentose; gula gray, white pilose; antennae black; segments I and II orange-yellow pilose; segment III bare; antennal ratio: 2:1:3.5. Thorax: scutum and scutellum blackish brown; sparse white pilose; pleura gray-black, white pilose and tomentose; halter stem whitish yellow, knob yellow. Legs: coxae gray, white tomentose and pilose laterally and ventrally, bare elsewhere; fore and mid femora black with sparse white scales; hind femur brown with sparse white scales; tibiae and tarsi brown, bare. Wing: tinted light smoky yellow-brown; veins brown; r-m crossvein slightly beyond middle of discal cell; vein closing apex of discal cell sigmoid; R4 curved upward at wing margin; squama tan with white fringe. Abdomen: tergites dark brown with sparse white pile overlying shorter recumbent white to pale yellow pile; sternites orange-brown, dense white pilose and tomentose; apex brown, pale yellow pilose. Genitalia: not dissected.
♂. Unknown.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 26-Aug-2010 | ADDED |