Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 18South African Museum, 1921 - Natual history |
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... colour , chiefly in the female ; the peristomial comb is well developed , and of a purple red colour . Antennae black , the third joint narrowly yellowish at base , elongate and very thin , with a short style ; the first joint is not ...
... colour , chiefly in the female ; the peristomial comb is well developed , and of a purple red colour . Antennae black , the third joint narrowly yellowish at base , elongate and very thin , with a short style ; the first joint is not ...
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... colour ; the fur is not tuft - like ; on the venter there are no distinct bristles . Legs pale yellow ; the femora are black , with only the tip yellow , more broadly so on the 2 anterior pairs , but they are clothed with white scales ...
... colour ; the fur is not tuft - like ; on the venter there are no distinct bristles . Legs pale yellow ; the femora are black , with only the tip yellow , more broadly so on the 2 anterior pairs , but they are clothed with white scales ...
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... colour darker between the bands ; hind wing fawn colour without markings ; both wings below dark rufous brown ; tarsi dark brown , not or slightly ringed with yellowish . Length of fore wing 39 mm . 3. Smaller and much darker ; head ...
... colour darker between the bands ; hind wing fawn colour without markings ; both wings below dark rufous brown ; tarsi dark brown , not or slightly ringed with yellowish . Length of fore wing 39 mm . 3. Smaller and much darker ; head ...
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abdomen alula anal cell antennae apical basal cell basal comb basal deflection base Bezzi black bristles black hairs blackish Bombyliidae BOMBYLIUS broad broadly brownish Cape Cape Colony cell 1st clothed colour coxae cubital fork dark brown darker dense discal cross-vein discoidal cell elongate ERIOPTERA eyes femora flagellar segments fore border fringe frons front fuscous genitalia genus GONOMYIA grey grey-dusted greyish halteres hind border hind femora Holotype hyaline hypopygium infuscated K. H. Barnard knob Length of body Loew Macq Macquart Mesonotum metapleurae Namaqualand narrowed at end notopleural occiput ocellar tubercle pale yellowish paler palpi Péringuey pleurae proboscis pubescence pulvilli R. M. Lightfoot reddish scutellum second longitudinal vein second posterior cell short sides silvery South African Museum spines spots Squamae sternites stripes submarginal cells tarsi tergites terminal vein third antennal joint third joint thorax tibiae tomentum Type upper branch venation venter vertex white hairs whitish hairs Wiedemann yellowish hairs