. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 901 figure; aedeagus somewhat dilated basally and produced as shown in figure. Types in the Transvaal Museum. Length of body: about 5-6 mm. Length of wing: about 5|-6 mm. «« Locality.—Transvaal: Pretoria (Munro, 11/11/17) (Types); Eng. d. boom (? Pretoria) (28/12/06). Recognised by its conspicuous white pubescence, short line of contact of eyes in $ and subopaque milky whitish wings. 1 <$ G. dubiosus n. sp. Body black; edge of metapleural
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 901 figure; aedeagus somewhat dilated basally and produced as shown in figure. Types in the Transvaal Museum. Length of body: about 5-6 mm. Length of wing: about 5|-6 mm. «« Locality.—Transvaal: Pretoria (Munro, 11/11/17) (Types); Eng. d. boom (? Pretoria) (28/12/06). Recognised by its conspicuous white pubescence, short line of contact of eyes in $ and subopaque milky whitish wings. 1 <$ G. dubiosus n. sp. Body black; edge of metapleural plate and sides of abdominal segments also entirely black; hind margins of sternites very obscurely. Text-fig. 275.—Side and ventral (dorsal) views of hypopygium of $ Geron dubiosus n. sp. and narrowly pallid; legs with the femora entirely black, the front tibiae and tarsi also black, the middle and hind tibiae and extreme bases of tarsi yellowish, the apices of hind tibiae, however, dark; pubescence (where still indicated in denuded specimen) not very long and dense, entirely white, with the denser scaling on body below silvery whitish; wings with a subopaque milky whitish tint, more evident towards base and in costal cell, the veins brownish, becoming darker apically and along costal veins, with the second submarginal cell only about as broad, or even slightly narrower, than long along its lower vein, the discal cross vein much beyond middle of discoidal vol. xxxiv. 58. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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