Archive image from page 292 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 Bombyliidae. Ill Male. Ground colour black or greyish black; frons and epistoma with short, erect, blackish or dark brownish hairs and covered with depressed, golden, scaly hairs; epistoma somewhat protruding. Occi- put with depressed, white hairs, and with a short fringe of yellow hairs at the hind margin. Antennae black or brownish black, the basal joints with short, black hairs; the third joint elongated conical, the distal
Archive image from page 292 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 Bombyliidae. Ill Male. Ground colour black or greyish black; frons and epistoma with short, erect, blackish or dark brownish hairs and covered with depressed, golden, scaly hairs; epistoma somewhat protruding. Occi- put with depressed, white hairs, and with a short fringe of yellow hairs at the hind margin. Antennae black or brownish black, the basal joints with short, black hairs; the third joint elongated conical, the distal part separated and the antennae thus four-jointed. Thorax Fig. 38. Antenna of A. afer. X 45. more or less densely clothed with scaly, golden or whitish hairs, and sparingly also with short, yellowish brown hairs which are denser at the front end and here form the common fringe which is yellow, but intermingled with black hairs below; at the hind part of thorax there are some stronger, black hairs; along each lateral margin of the disc there is a longitudinal stripe of white or slightly yellowish hairs. Pleura with longish hairs which are reddish yellow above, darker farther down; the metapleura have a vertical tuft of pale or reddish yellow hairs. There are strong postalar bristles on the postalar callus, and the bristles on the scutellum are also somewhat strong. Abdomen covered with scaly hairs which are black on the front parts of the segments but yellow at the hind margins, the second segment on the contrary is chiefly yellow haired with black hind margin; on the third and sixth segments there is a broad, white, transverse band on the front part, nearly covering the whole segment; the band on the sixth segment is interrupted in the middle; also the seventh segment is whitish haired. Abdomen also sparingly clothed with longer, black hairs which are denser at the lateral margins; the tirst segment has erect, white hairs at the sides, reaching like a fringe nearly to the m
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