Genus Squamopygia Kröber, 1928

Museums

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• Squamopygia Kröber, O. 1928. Neue Dipteren des Deutschen Entomolog. Museums in Dahlem (Conopidae, Omphralidae, Therevidae, Tabanidae). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 17: 31-41 [35].

  Type species:

   Squamopygia ornata Kröber, 1928 by subsequent designation, see Irwin, M.E. & Lyneborg, L. 1989. Family Therevidae. pp. 353-358 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [358].

Introduction

Closely related to Ectinorhynchus, this genus is only known from a few specimens from tropical Northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea. An undescribed species is known from Papua New Guinea.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis

Antennae elongate; frons flat, single row of postocular setae in male; cell m3 open; hind femur with anteroventral apical seta; velutum patches absent on fore and hind femora and gonocoxites; gonocoxites without medial atrium; distiphallus narrowly tapering; spermathecal sac trilobate; three spermathecae.

Diagnosis References

Kröber, O. 1928. Neue Dipteren des Deutschen Entomolog. Museums in Dahlem (Conopidae, Omphralidae, Therevidae, Tabanidae). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 17: 31-41

Winterton S.L. & Irwin, M.E. in Winterton S.L., Irwin, M.E. & Yeates, D.K. 1999. Phylogenetic revision of the Taenogera Kröber genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae), with descriptions of two new genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 274-290

General References

Winterton, S.L. & Lambkin, C.L. 2024. Review of the stiletto flies of the Taenogera genus group (Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Australian Journal of Taxonomy 69: 1-62 [35, Figs 22E–F; 23–25; 26A–B; 27E; 28C–D]

Winterton S.L. & Irwin, M.E. in Winterton S.L., Irwin, M.E. & Yeates, D.K. 1999. Phylogenetic revision of the Taenogera Kröber genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae), with descriptions of two new genera. Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 274-290

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