Species Neosardus lepidus Roberts, 1929

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• Neosardus lepidus Roberts, F.H.S. 1929. A revision of the Australian Bombyliidae (Diptera). III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 553-583 [Date published 16 December] [561].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ (1.i.1929, H. Nicholas), NSW: Gravesend.
  Paratype(s) whereabouts unknown 2♀ (xii.1928, H. Nicholas), NSW: Gravesend.

  Type locality references:

  Yeates, D.K. 1996. Revision of the Australian bee fly genus Neosardus Roberts (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 47-75 [Date published 1 March] [61].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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Diagnosis

Integumental colour of head yellow; antennae with pedicel, flagellum and apex of scape black. Scutum black with yellow at sides; postpronotal lobes, scutellum and legs yellow except part or all of fore coxae brown. Pleurae yellow except anterior half of anepisternum, ventral half of katepisternum, and meropleurite brown. Abdomen with tergites 1-4 black, tergites 5-7 black with posterior border narrowly yellow. Hairs on frons black or dark brown, at least in median 2/3. Reflective scales on scutum, scutellum and abdomen green. Wing pattern sexually dimorphic as follows: male with basal half of wing brown with distinct border, apical half hyaline, brown extending almost to tip of dm and tip of R1. Female similar to male, except basal brown marking less intense and indistinctly graduating to hyaline apical half. Haltere knob yellow with brown on anterior margin. Body length 5.5-8.4 mm.

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