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 duvalli n.sp. Figs. 1 , 2h, 2i , 4b, 4c Type material . HOLOTYPE 3, Tasmania : 14 km SW by S of Wilmot , 41°30'S 146°05'E , 31.i.1983 , I.D. Naumann & J.C. Cardale ( ANIC ). Additional material . Tasmania : 3, Arthur Plains , 18.ii.1965 ; ♀ , Mt Bowes, NE slope, 11.ii.1965 ( MVM ); 3, Mt Wellington , Hobart , 42°55'S 147°14'E , 1.ii. 1992, 720 m , on Leptospermum scoparia (UQIC) ; ♀ , Cradle Valley , 26.i.1923 ; 3, Strahan , 6.ii.1923 ; ♀ , Mt Farrel , 9.ii.1923 ; 3, Mt. Field NP , 950 m , 22.ii.1963 ( ANIC ); 3, Mt Barrow , 41°22'S 147°25'E , 900 m , 12.ii1988 ( AMS ) . Description (male): length: 10.0; wing: 7.5×2.2 (habitus, Fig. 1 ). Head : post-cranium black, covered laterally and ventrally with grey pruinosity; dorsal post-cranium, vertex and frons black without pruinosity; postcranium with usual pale ventral hairs and with black dorsal hairs; postorbital setae white ventrally, black dorsally; lateral frons with setulae more distinct than usual; palp yellow with white setae, curved and slightly clavate; labrum dark brown basally, yellow distally; labellum dark brown; antenna black; scape and pedicel with short black setulae. Thorax : pleura mostly black but red-brown near sutures, and covered with grey pruinosity; anterior mesonotum redbrown, interdigitating with black posterior mesonotum, black lateral patches and black ac band, but in some specimens this pattern is obscured ( Fig. 2h,i ); scutellum red-brown with black base; postnotum black with grey pruinosity; posterior slope of mesonotum covered with field of short setulae. Legs : coxae dark brown to black although CI and CII reddish brown distally; coxae with only short pale vestiture, no strong setae; all tarsi with strong black claws and large yellowish pulvilli; legs I and II mostly red-yellow; It 1–3 , each with pairs of av setae; each tarsomere IIt 1–3 with some subapical av setae; FIII yellowish in basal two thirds, but dark brown and slightly clavate in distal third; TIII yellow at base, dark brown from 3 1 5 6 , and yellow in distal sixth; distal sixth of TIII and IIIt 1 with pale yellow vestiture; IIIt 2–5 with black vestiture. Abdomen : tergum 1 black; preabdomen translucent redbrown, with some specimens showing black areas laterally and dorsally on terga 4 and 5; cuticle glabrous, without pruinosity; tergum 7 only slightly excavated; tergum 8 with lateral flaplike projections; sternum 8 unmodified; hypopygium mostly black ( Fig. 4b,c ). Female similar to male except as noted: frons wider, thorax with black markings smaller in extent; leg and vestiture colour similar; abdomen mostly orange in colour. Remarks . Bandella duvalli is known from various locales in western Tasmania , mostly in upland areas. There is some intraspecific variation in the intensity of mesonotal infuscation among the specimens, as shown in Fig. 4b and 4c . This species named in honor of Steven G. Duvall of California, who helped sponsor this research.