. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 365. Text-fig. 134. Inner aspect of right antenna of <$ Argyramoeba punctipennis (Wied.). entirely different type of hypopygium present in two of the species would appear to necessitate the erection of a separate and new genus to contain them. The genus Argyramoeba agrees with Anthrax in most of its characters but differs in the following respects: Body with the red on sides of abdomen and across hind margins of tergites and sternites, espec
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. REVISION OF THE BOMBYLIIDAE (DIPTERA) OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 365. Text-fig. 134. Inner aspect of right antenna of <$ Argyramoeba punctipennis (Wied.). entirely different type of hypopygium present in two of the species would appear to necessitate the erection of a separate and new genus to contain them. The genus Argyramoeba agrees with Anthrax in most of its characters but differs in the following respects: Body with the red on sides of abdomen and across hind margins of tergites and sternites, especially in 0*0*, tending to be more developed. Antennae with joint 2 (text-fig. 134) characteristically flattened, bowl-shaped or saucer-shaped and very concave apically, in this concavity of which the globular or broad bulb-shaped base of joint 3 fits very closely like a ball in a socket. Vestiture with the bristles on sides of thorax in front of wings, on postalar calli, on scutellum and on abdomen above more strongly developed; long hairs on sides of tergites 2-5 in the form of black and white tufts of long flattened, lanceolate or strap-like scale-like hairs among which are intermixed ordinary bristle hairs; tufts on sides of tergites 2 and 4 usually black and those on sides of 3 and 5 white; scaling on body comparatively denser and more developed and the broadish, flattened scales on abdomen posteriorly usually duller, more cretaceous whitish, not brilliantly shining silvery white as in majority of 3S belonging to species of Anthrax; scales among hairs on face relatively longer and denser; hair-like scaling on pleurae distinctly very much denser. Wings in all the known South African species with a variable number of spots on cross veins, but without a very distinctive or well-marked pattern of infuscations and spots as in many species of Anthrax. Legs with the claws of 33 usually more obviously developed and distinctly longer than in $$, distinctly much more so than in the c
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