Victoriana melanorrhina species group (Victoriana sensu stricto)

Description. Body brown. Head. Face narrow to normal (between 1/4 to ~1/3 of head width), entirely pale or with medial dark stripe; tubercle dorsally positioned. Antennal insertions confluent. Frons ~1/3 of head width. Female ocellar triangle ~1 ocellus-width from lateral eye margin. Dorsal occiput with one row of pile; *ventral occiput with rows of pile distanced from eye margin (Fig. 88). Thorax. Scutum dark, sometimes pale laterally, and without distinct anterior row of pile. Scutellum pale to mostly dark; *sub-scutellar fringe conspicuous, but pile sparse. Anterior anepisternum pilose. Katatergite with short microtrichia that gives the sclerite a ‘velvet’ appearance. Metaepisternum pilose. Metasternum bare. Upper calypter margin with shorter to much shorter pile than pile on the ventral calypter margin. *Metafemur with erect pile on its baso-posterior surface (Fig. 90). Wing. Alula absent, or much reduced (narrower than c) (Fig. 91). Wing hyaline or with anterior dark margin on females, light brown on males; vein M1 strongly oblique, ending far from where it leaves M (Fig. 48). Abdomen. Abdomen parallel-sided, elongated, slightly petiolate; *terga 4 and 5 with sub-basal, pale, small, banded maculae (Fig. 48). Terminalia. Female tergum 7 as pair of sclerotized stripes (Fig. 100); tergum 8 as a narrow triangular sclerotization (Fig. 100). *Male postgonite elongated, with a dorsal acute extremity and a ventral acute extremity (that may be further extended anteriorly) (Figs 54 and 55); *surstylus elongated and finger-like, ventral surface with setae and setulae intermixed (Figs 51 and 52); basiphallus teardrop-shaped, distiphallus membranous with dorsal sclerotized triangular region (as in Fig. 97).

Included species (3). V. laudabilis (Williston, 1891) comb. nov. [1b], V. lugubris (Philippi, 1865) comb. nov. [2, 3], V. melanorrhina (Philippi, 1865) comb. nov. [2, 3, 4].