Species Ligyra commoni Paramonov, 1967
- Ligyra commoni 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] [134].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (18.xii.1964, I.F.B. Common), QLD: Yeppoon.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)
Diagnosis
♂. Head (including occiput) reddish orange. Vertex, 14 : 5 : 14. Hairs on head mostly black. Hairs of the neck fringe extremely short, yellowish. Ocellarium very small, situated well anterior to the hind margin of the eyes.
Mesonotum black on disc, dull, with a slightly yellowish nuance. Reddish orange on humeral and postalar calli, the rather broad lateral stripes, a semicircular spot in front of scutellum, and the scutellum. Collar with orange hairs, but humeral calli and notopleural area predominantly with dense, black hairs or semi-bristles. Short yellowish hairs above base of wing. A tuft of extremely long, dense, black hairs on anterior coxae, and similar hairs with admixture of reddish ones dorsally on mesopleura; the remainder covered with much shorter black and orange hairs. Halteres brownish, with a fan of erect black hairs in front, and similar orange hairs a little above and anterior to halteres. Legs brown, with black scales and spicules.
Wing yellow at base, brownish along the costa, the dark colour occupying less than a third of the wing; 9 small, but distinct, spots at the crossing-points of veins; 4 submarginal cells with corrugated membrane; first posterior cell open. Veins M1 and M2 distinctly S-shaped. Vein r-m on the middle of discal cell; discal cell very long.
Abdomen about as broad as thorax, with reddish and black fasciae. First tergite black, with dense, erect, black hairs, laterally with yellowish hairs. Second tergite mostly reddish, with a black spot at base, and with yellowish fascia of scales along the anterior margin (the rest is rubbed). Third tergite similar to the second, but with black scales, at least on the lateral one-third. Fourth tergite similar to the third, but with the black colour predominating. The succeeding tergites mostly black with reddish posterior margins, but they are rubbed in the single specimen available, and show only remains of black and white scales, and some short, black hairs. Underside with snow-white hairs and scales, but the sides and the last two sternites black, strongly contrasting.
History of changes
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