Abstract

Bandella n.gen. (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae: Hilarini) is described from mainland Australia and Tasmania, and comprises nine new species: B. albitarsis, B. cerra, B. allynensis, B. costalis, B. duvalli, B. maxi, B. montana, B. noorinbee, and B. tasmanica. Bandella is distinguished from other genera in the Hilarini by the following combination of characters: mesonotum glabrous, without pruinosity, but with diagnostic colour patterns; mesonotal vestiture highly reduced, comprising only short setulae; male tarsus I unmodified; and male abdominal terga 7 and 8 reduced or modified to form flaps so that hypopygium can be flexed forward. The genus is distinctive in having an almost fully formed vein CuP running lengthwise across the centre of cell cup. Although vein CuP is part of the wing groundplan in Diptera, it has variable expression in the lower Brachycera. In other Empididae, this vein is either residual and positioned closely posteriad of vein CuA2, or totally absent.Also, Bandella has a divided and sclerotised male cercus, a character also shared by the endemic Tasmanian hilarine genus Cunomyia Bickel. Bandella has a predominately temperate Bassian distribution: Tasmania, southeastern and southwestern Australia, with an outlying species in submontane rainforest of tropical Queensland.

 
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Bibliographic Data

Short Form
Bickel, 2002, Rec. Aust. Mus. 54(3): 313–324
Author
Daniel J. Bickel
Year
2002
Title
Bandella, a new hilarine fly genus from Australia (Diptera: Empididae)
Serial Title
Records of the Australian Museum
Volume
54
Issue
3
Start Page
313
End Page
324
DOI
10.3853/j.0067-1975.54.2002.1369
Language
en
Date Published
30 October 2002
Cover Date
30 October 2002
ISSN (print)
0067-1975
CODEN
RAUMAJ
Publisher
The Australian Museum
Place Published
Sydney, Australia
Subjects
INSECTA: DIPTERA
Digitized
30 October 2002
Available Online
30 October 2002
Reference Number
1369
EndNote
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