Trichophthalma subaurata, , Westw.

Westwood, John O., 1835, Insectorum novorum exoticorum (ex ordine Dipterorum) descriptiones, London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Series 3 6 (72), pp. 447-449 : 448

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.27466

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6298642

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scientific name

Trichophthalma subaurata
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Trich. subaurata, Westw. View in CoL

Fusca; pubescentiâ subauratâ tectà; thorace lateribus et in medio longitudinalitèr pallidiùs bivittato; abdomine magis fulvescenti, vittà obscuriori centrali longitudinali; pedibus et antennis rufescentibus, harum seta nigrà, alis brevioribus; costà latè fuscanti; proboscide capite plùs quàm duplo longiore. - Long. corp. (probosc. exc.) lin. 5 1/4. Exp. alar. lin. 13 1/2.

Habitat in Americà meridionali (Valparaiso). In mus. D. Hope.

Obs. Sectio 3tia suprà descripta affinitatem generis Nemestrinae cum Hermoneura facilè demonstrat, inde in ordine naturali genus Nemestrina locum intermedium tenet inter Cyrtum , Lasiam , &c. familiæ Vesiculosarum et Hermoneuram familiæ Anthracidarum .

Obs. Genus Midas , neuratione alarum similiter insolita, gaudens rarnulo laterali systematis, generibus suprà prædictis conjungi videtur. An genus osculans ad Asilidas, &c. adducens?

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Nemestrinidae

Genus

Trichophthalma

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