Species Ligyra pilad Paramonov, 1967
- Ligyra pilad 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] [143].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ (Clark), WA: Geraldton.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Known only from type locality.
IBRA
WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)
Diagnosis
♀. Head dark. Frons and face with dense, adpressed yellowish scales; frons with black hairs. Antennae black; style distinctly less than half as long as basal part of third segment. Hind border of eye, above and below, with a strongly marked, narrow, white stripe of scales. Occiput extremely broad in profile.
Mesonotum dark, with yellow adpressed scales, and short whitish stripes laterally; humeral calli yellow. Scutellum reddish, covered with yellow scales. Collar and sides of thorax predominantly yellow-haired. Halteres brownish. Legs brownish.
Wings with sharply marked anterobasal brown part; boundary almost straight, from base of fourth posterior cell, to apex of R1; 4 submarginal cells. First posterior cell closed. Vein r-m a little before middle of discal cell. More than posterior half of wing hyaline. Veins M1 and M2 short, S-shaped.
Abdomen black, without markings, very greasy in the holotype. Sides of first and second tergites with dense, yellowish hairs.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 26-Aug-2010 | ADDED |