Species Ligyra calabyana Paramonov, 1967

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• Ligyra calabyana Paramonov, S.J. 1967. A review of the Australian species of Ligyra Newman (Hyperalonia olim) (Bombyliidae: Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 123-144 [Date published February] [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (15.ix.1955, J.H. Calaby), WA: Rudall R., 3 miles ESE of Watrara Pool.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Great Sandy Desert (GSD)

Diagnosis

♀. Head reddish brown. Face and frons with moderately dense, yellowish scales and black hairs. Style of third antenna] segment shorter than half the basal part of the segment. A narrow stripe of white scales behind hind margin of eyes.
Thorax brown; scutellum reddish. Bristles black, but mesopleura with only a tuft of long yellow hairs. A short, longitudinal, poorly developed whitish stripe at base of wing. Mesonotum and scutellum with yellow, adpressed and black, erect hairs. Legs reddish, with black scales. Halteres yellow.
Wings with 4 submarginal cells; first posterior cell rather broadly open; vein r-m at about middle of discal cell. Vein M2 S-shaped. Second and third posterior cells equal at hind margin. Dark basal area of wing extending to centres of lower
basal and anal cells; 2 dark crossbands; one occupying basal parts of discal, third and fourth posterior cells, and apex of anal cell, but not reaching hind margin of wing; the other occupying apical part of discal cell and basal part of second posterior cell. Central third of discal cell hyaline.
Abdomen with the last 3 tergites wholly covered with white scales and a few black hairs. First tergite with tufts of yellowish hairs laterally. Second and third tergites with about basal two-thirds covered by yellowish scales, and apical third with brownish scales. Fourth tergite covered with mainly brownish scales. Underside uniformly yellowish, with yellowish hairs.

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