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Genus 
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Hesse
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<emphasis id="B937D42EFFB8EA0DFEE7358DFE6060EB" box="[264,400,1235,1258]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Onchopelma</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFD275CDFFB8EA0DFE74358CFDAD60E8" author="Hesse" box="[411,605,1234,1257]" firstAuthor="Hesse" page="973" pageId="1" pageNumber="2" pagination="1 - 1053" refId="ref4259" refString="Hesse, A. J. (1938) Revision of the Bombyliidae of Southern Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 34, 1 - 1053." type="journal article" year="1938">Hesse, 1938: 973</bibRefCitation>
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. 
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species: 
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<emphasis id="B937D42EFFB8EA0DFCE6358DFBE260EB" box="[777,1042,1235,1258]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Onchopelma pulchellum</emphasis>
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, by original designation.
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DIAGNOSIS. 
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is most similar to 
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and 
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, but can be easily distinguished from these and all other mythicomyiids by the anal cell being closed before the wing margin by a stalk. In addition, species typically have a polished appearance and rather long antennae with the first flagellomere about the same thickness as the second. Like 
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<emphasis id="B937D42EFFB8EA0DFE443485FDBB61F5" box="[427,587,1499,1524]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="2">Psiloderoides</emphasis>
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, males and females are dimorphic, but not as striking as the incredible size differences found in 
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(cf. Hull 1973). The two male specimens known of 
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both are holoptic and generally black in body color, whereas females are dichoptic and typically have striking yellow to white and black thoracic and abdominal patterns.
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DISTRIBUTION. Species of this genus are only known from western 
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and 
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. Further collecting might extend its distribution into more easterly parts of 
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.
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