Bandella, A New Hilarine Fly Genus from Australia (Diptera: Empididae) Author Bickel, Daniel J. text Records of the Australian Museum 2002 54 313 324 journal article 2201-4349 FEA488D9-D30E-4323-9A43-60EADFFBE8CB Bandella cerra n.sp. Fig. 2b Type material . HOLOTYPE , 3 (K 173134), PARATYPES , 3 (K 173135), ♀ (K 173136), New South Wales : Barrington Tops NP , Gloucester Tops , 32°04'S 151°34'E , 1280 m , Nothofagus moorei forest along creek, 4–30.xii.1988 , malaise trap , D.J. Bickel (all AMS ) . Figure 3 . Bandella allynensis : a, male postabdomen; b, male wing, dorsal; c, male antenna, left lateral. Bandella montana : d, male postabdomen, left lateral. Bandella noorinbee : e, male postabdomen, left lateral; f, female oviscapt, dorsal. Additional material . New South Wales : 3, Barrington Tops , via Salisbury [no elevation], 28–30.xii.1965 ( UQIC ); 3, Mt Banda Banda FR , 31°10'S 152°26'E , 1200 m , cool temperate rainforest, 14.i.1988 ( AMS ) . Description (male): length: 8.5–9.5; wing: 6.9×1.3; similar to B. allynensis except as noted. Head : scape black. Thorax : pleura and postnotum dark brown with yellowish areas, and covered with grey pruinosity; anterior mesonotum mostly yellow with pale yellow postpronotum and postalar callus; ac band dark brown and extending to scutellum, with yellow bands on either side, also extending to scutellum, and with brown areas laterad which extend from mesonotal suture back to scutellum ( Fig. 2b ); scutellum yellow but infuscated at base. Legs : CI yellow; trochanter I yellow with dark brown apical rim; coxae and trochanters II and III yellowish with brown areas, and covered with grey pruinosity; FI and TI yellow; It 1 distinctly brown, in contrast to yellow TI and distal tarsomeres; It 2–5 yellow; It 2 and It 3 each with two closely appressed subapical pv setae, which are distinctly longer than single corresponding single av seta.(MSSC); It 2–5 ventrally flattened with pale vestiture; FII and TII yellow; It 1–2 brown, and It 3–5 yellow; FIII yellow basally, grading to brown in distal third; TIII yellow with but distal quarter brown; IIIt dark brown. Abdomen : tergum 1 dark brown; terga 2–6 mostly yellow but each tergum with dark brown apical ring and with dark brown dorsal band so that abdomen appears to have dorsal stripe; hypopygium (not figured, but similar to Fig. 3a ) with dark brown hypandrium and surstyli, but distinctly yellow epandrium. Female similar to male except as noted: thorax with similar colour; leg vestiture somewhat weaker than on male; It 2 and It 3 each with single subequal subapical av-pv setal pair; abdomen with similar pattern. Remarks . Bandella cerra is known from Nothofagus moorei dominated cool temperate rainforest in the Barrington Tops and Mt Banda Banda, in northeastern New South Wales . These sites are in the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA) World Heritage Area, hence the specific epithet.