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Image of Vomerina comapenis Winterton & Ferguson 2012
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Vomerina comapenis Winterton & Ferguson 2012

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Body length: 7.0 mm. Head. Frons flat, surface rugose-striated medially, wider than ocellar tubercle at narrowest point, antennal base positioned low on frons; lower frons and face slightly protruding around antennal base; frons glossy black, silver-grey pubescence along eye margin; short setae sparsely distributed on lower frons; narrow medial stripe of silver pubescence around antennal bases on face, parafacial and along margin of eye; ocellar tubercle flat, glossy black; occiput concave, black, overlain with dense grey pubescence; single row of very short, black postocular setae; gena black, overlain with white pubescence admixed with white, elongate setae; palpus and labellum brown-black with sparse, dark setae; antenna black, only slightly shorter than head; short dark setae on scape and pedicel; scape shorter than flagellum length, cylindrical, with grey pubescence; flagellum conical with brownish suffusion. Thorax. Black, scutum and scutellum overlain with grey-black pubescence admixed with relatively short, dark setae; scutum with narrow, faint dorsocentral and medial stripe of pale grey pubescence; scutal macrosetae black; pleuron, sternum and coxae glossy black; distinctive broad stripe of matte white to silver pubescence along pleuron length; elongate pale setae on proepisternum, katepisternum and coxae, black setae on anepisternum and katatergite; legs black with pale setae of various lengths on femora, dark yellow band midway on mid and hind tibiae and basitarsus; wing smoky infuscate; venation dark; haltere brown-black; scutal chaetotaxy (pairs): notopleural, 4; supra alar, 1; post alar, 1; dorsocentral, 1–2; scutellar, 1. Abdomen. Glossy black, uniform scattered pale setae, longer laterally, white-grey pubescence laterally on sternites 1–3. Male genitalia. Gonocoxite with outer gonocoxal processes reduced; articulated inner gonocoxal process greatly reduced; gonostylus broad; ventral lobe large, plowshare-shaped, projecting posteroventrally with velutinous pubescence on ventral surface (Figs 3–4).
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Shaun L. Winterton, David J. Ferguson
bibliographic citation
Winterton S, Ferguson D (2012) New species of Vomerina Winterton (Diptera, Therevidae, Agapophytinae) from Australia ZooKeys 218: 65–75
author
Shaun L. Winterton
author
David J. Ferguson
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