Species Geron paramonovi Evenhuis, 1979

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• Geron paramonovi 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] [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (F.H. Taylor), NSW: Megalong.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 4♂, 2♀ (F.H. Taylor), NSW: Megalong; ANIC ♀ (20.iv. 1970, D.H. Colless), NSW: 20 mi [32.0 km] Glen Innes to Grafton H'way; ANIC ♂ (29.i.1933, Fuller), NSW: Wee Jasper.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Diagnosis

♂. Head: face and oral margin gray, bare; frons gray, silver-white tomentose lateral to antennal bases; vertex black, black pilose; occiput black, brown pilose; antennae black; segments I and II blackish brown pilose; segment III bare; antennal ratio: 2:1:4. Thorax: scutum and scutellum black, cinereous pile overlying sparse pale yellow tomentum; pleura gray, pale yellow to white pilose and tomentose; halter yellow. Legs: coxae gray, white pilose and tomentose; fore femur brown with white scales, white pile basally; mid femur orange with white scales; hind femur orange basally, black apically with white scales; fore and hind tibiae and tarsi brown, bare; mid tibiae and tarsi orange-brown, bare. Wing: tinted brown basally extending to end of R1, r-m crossvein, and posterior crossvein; anal and axillary cells and rest of wing hyaline to wing margin; r-m crossvein slightly beyond middle of discal cell; vein closing apex of discal cell sigmoid; squama tan, pale yellow fringe. Abdomen: tergites black, gray laterally; tergite I white pilose; tergites II-VII sparse pale yellow erect pile overlying pale yellow tomentum; sternites gray, sparse pale yellow pilose and tomentose. Genitalia: not dissected.
♀. Similar to ♂ except for the following: frons shining black, silver tomentum at antennal bases and just below vertex, bare between; occiput black, yellow-brown pilose and golden tomentose; scutum and scutellum dense golden tomentose; halter orange-brown; abdominal segments I and II black, orange laterally; abdominal tergum dense golden tomentose, pale yellow laterally.

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