Description
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Body length: 11.5 mm (male), 11.5–12.0 mm (female). Head with eye apilose; ocellar tubercle relatively flat; medial ocellus present; occiput metallic green-blue, occipital pile white, sparse; postocular ridge and gena overlain with grey pubescence; clypeus length equal to oral cavity, black with blue-green suffusion; palpus black; margin of oral cavity (parafacial) pilose; proboscis extending beyond oral cavity, but shorter than head height; flagellum apex in male tapered, slightly rounded apically, red-brown; scape and pedicel red-brown. Thorax with postpronotal lobe blue-violet; scutum metallic blue-violet, green posteromedially; scutellum metallic blue-violet; coxae and femora with metallic blue-violet iridescence; tibiae black; tarsi black; lower calypter white with brown margin; wing hyaline, venation dark; vein R4 with spur vein. Abdomen shape rounded globose, much larger than thorax, colour metallic green or blue-violet iridescent, vestiture extensive white-silver short pile, longer laterally.
- license
- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Shaun L. Winterton
- bibliographic citation
- Winterton S (2012) Review of Australasian spider flies (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a revision of Panops Lamarck ZooKeys 172: 7–75
- author
- Shaun L. Winterton