Species Ligyra dentata (Roberts, 1928)
Hyperalonia dentata Holotype
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Hyperalonia dentata Holotype label
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Species Ligyra dentata (Roberts, 1928)
- Hyperalonia dentata Roberts, F.H.S. 1928. A revision of the Australian Bombyliidae (Diptera). I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 91-144 [102].
Type data:
Holotype QM T3261 ♂ (F.H. Roberts), VIC.Type locality references:
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] [131].
Generic Combinations
- Ligyra dentata (Roberts, 1928).
Distribution
States
Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Recorded as from Victoria (no other information)
Distribution References
- 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] [131]
Diagnosis
♂. Head black, with dense, yellow adpressed scales; face orange; frons with short, black, erect hairs. At hind indentations of eyes the scales appear more whitish. Antennae reddish (third segment missing), with short, black and yellow hairs. Occiput, viewed from above, very long, almost half as long as eye. Vertex, 12 : 4 : 12, proboscis dark; mouth cavity long and narrow.
Thorax black, with dense yellow hairs in front and on the sides, and with a shorter, depressed, yellow tomentum in the disc. Bristles black. Scutellum reddish, with yellow tomentum and rather long, black marginal bristles. Underside of thorax mostly yellow-haired. Legs yellow, tarsi dark; spicules black, scales yellow. Halteres yellow.
Wings distinctly brownish on the entire surface, the basal half (obliquely) more intensely so; there is no distinct line dividing the colour pattern of the wing into 2 parts. Colour slightly darker along the veins. Squamae alares yellow; 4 submarginal cells. Vein r-m at middle of discal cell. Cell M2 S-shaped; second posterior cell half as long as the third. Alula broad and long. Basicosta with yellow scales.
Dorsum of abdomen dark, but sides and apex narrowly orange-yellow; entire surface covered with narrow, depressed, yellow scales, and with yellow hairs laterally. Some poorly developed black hairs dispersed mostly laterally. Underside yellow, with yellow hairs and scales.
Diagnosis References
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] [130-1]
History of changes
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