Parageron Paramonov 1929
Description
Genus Parageron Paramonov, 1929
Type species
Parageron orientalis Paramonov, 1929 by monotypy.
Diagnosis
Rather delicate pale yellow species (Par. erythraeus darker), male eyes holoptic (or very narrowly separated in Par. erythraeus) with upper facets enlarged. The single feature differentiating this genus from all others in Parageron s. lat. is the presence of a round blackish (sometimes velvety) spot placed on the thoracic suture above the notopleuron (see TSS in Gibbs 2011: fig. 2).
Etymology
‘Near Geron ’, referring to similarity with the genus Geron (from ‘Para’, ‘Παρά’ Greek prefix = ‘near’ and ‘ geron ’, from Greek ‘γέρων’ = ‘old man’).
Included species
Parageron erythraeus (Greathead, 1967)
Parageron lutescens (Bezzi, 1925)
Parageron longilingua sp. nov.
Parageron orientalis Paramonov, 1929
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Paramonov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Genus
- Parageron
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parageron Paramonov, 1929 sec. Gibbs, 2023
References
- Paramonov S. J. 1929. Beitrage zur Monographie einiger Bombyliiden-Gattungen (Diptera). Trudy Fizychno-Matematychnogo Viddil Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk 11 (1): 65 - 225.
- Gibbs D. J. 2011. A world revision of the bee fly tribe Usiini (Diptera, Bombyliidae) - Part 1: Usia subgenus Micrusia, U. versicolor (Fabricius) (= black-haired species) and Usia martini Francois. Zootaxa 2960: 1 - 77. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2960.1.1
- Greathead D. J. 1967. The Bombyliidae (Diptera) of northern Ethiopia. Journal of Natural History 1: 195 - 284. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222936700770211
- Bezzi M. 1925. Quelques notes sur les bombyliides (Dipt.) d'Egypte, avec description d'especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Societe royale entomologique d'Egypte 8: 159 - 242.