Species Neosardus principius Roberts, 1929

Neosardus principius Holotype label. It appears Roberts labelled the specimens as Nitidulus but published the genus as Neosardus. Hahn 1962 then referred to Nitidulus in the Macleay Museum.

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Neosardus principius Holotype

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

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• Neosardus principius 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] [562] [It appears Roberts labelled the specimens as Nitidulus but published the genus as Neosardus. Hahn 1962 then referred to Nitidulus in the Macleay Museum.].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T3528 ♂ (18.xi.1928, F. Roberts), QLD: Emerald.
  Paratype(s) QM 1♂, 1♀ (20.xi.1928, A. P. Dodd), QLD: Chinchilla; whereabouts unknown 2♂ (14.xi.1927, B. Smith), QLD: Chinchilla; whereabouts unknown ♂ (30.xii.1927, F. Roberts), QLD: Goondiwindi; whereabouts unknown 2♂ (28.xi.1917, H. Hacker), QLD: Brisbane.

  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] [68].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Coolgardie (COO), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

A small species (body length 4-6-1 mm) with long, narrow abdomen. Integumental colour black except for palps and ventral half of head yellow. Hairs on frons black. Reflective scales on scutum and tergites coppery-purple, those on scutellum green. Wing pattern with anterior margin dark brown, extending apically to distal dilation in cell rl and to cross-vein between R2+3 and R4. Posterior margin of wing hyaline; dividing line between the dark brown and hyaline areas distinct except in the median posterior extension of brown region between apex of dm and A1. Haltere knob yellow with dark brown anterior margin.

Diagnosis 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] [68]

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