. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 121 pubescence in both sexes, only the apical tuft on abdomen in both sexes is golden orange yellowish. Wings greyish hyaline as in analis, the basal comb, the alular, and squamal fringes in both sexes, however, black or dark brownish, with the discoidal cell distinctly acute apically. Moreover, the species is distinctly larger and bulkier, about 16J-17 mm. long and with a wing-length of about 18-19 mm. Hypo-. Text-fig. -Side and half of ven
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. A Revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. 121 pubescence in both sexes, only the apical tuft on abdomen in both sexes is golden orange yellowish. Wings greyish hyaline as in analis, the basal comb, the alular, and squamal fringes in both sexes, however, black or dark brownish, with the discoidal cell distinctly acute apically. Moreover, the species is distinctly larger and bulkier, about 16J-17 mm. long and with a wing-length of about 18-19 mm. Hypo-. Text-fig. -Side and half of ventral view of hypopygium of <$ Bombytius haemorrhoidalis Bezz. of pygium of 3 (text-fig. 8) with the aedeagus not reaching apex of basal parts, the apical part straight and slender. Locality.—S. Rhodesia. (In the South African Museum.) Bezzi (p. 9, loc. cit.) mistook the ^-specimen from "Salisbury (Jack, 20/3/14)''' for a $. On p. 33, in his key in the Bombyliidae of the Ethiopian Region, he states that the ? has whitish hair on the thorax, but on p. 36 he states that the $ is black-haired like the $. B. fulvonotatus Wied. (P. 332, Aussereurop. Zweirl. Ins., i, 1828.) This species appears to be fairly common in the South Western and Western parts of the Cape Province, in the Orange Free State, and is also found in the Transvaal. Superficially it very closely resembles analis in the general shape of the body and the black pubescence. Both oo and 2$ are, however, at once distinguished from analis by the presence of a central row of orange golden or fulvous spots on the abdomen above and the absence of an apical patch or tuft of snow white or extensive yellowish hairs. The pubescence on thorax above. 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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