Genus Taenogerella Winterton & Irwin, 1999

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• Taenogerella 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 [283].

  Type species:

   Taenogera nigrapicalis Mann, 1928 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW, Qld: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Hampton (HAM), Murchison (MUR), Riverina (RIV), Yalgoo (YAL) ; SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Mallee (MAL), Nullarbor (NUL) ; WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Pilbara (PIL)

Diagnosis

Male frons greatly narrowed, covered with bright silver velutum, numerous large setae around base of antenna and on scape; gonocoxites with large medial atrium; hypandrium fused to gonocoxites; apex of gonostylus directed dorsally; outer gonocoxal process longer than inner gonocoxal process; male abdominal velutum extensive or restricted to posterior margins of tergites; distiphallus broadly tapering, apex directed ventrally (Winterton et al 1999b).
Closely related to Taenogera, species of Taenogerella are easily distinguished by their relatively smaller size, single row of postocular setae in the male and differences in the male genitalia (Winterton et al 1999b).

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. in Winterton, S.L., Yang, L., Wiegmann, B.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytinae subf. n. (Diptera: Therevidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 26: 173-211

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 [45, Figs 1A–B; 14G; 27A–C, J; 28E–L; 32–45]

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