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Genus
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<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FFFC7DA2FF46FF01" bold="true" box="[121,245,213,237]" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Etymology</emphasis>
.
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, the locale of the
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species, is a geographic place name of Australian Aboriginal origin. The gender is feminine.
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species
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.
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<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FFFC7CF1FF5BFE72" bold="true" box="[121,232,390,414]" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. Subfamily
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, tribe
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, with the following tribal characters (Bickel, 1996): laterotergite bare; male basitarsus I enlarged or swollen; costa circumambient; vein R
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distinctly swollen before joining costa; tibia I with anteroapical comb of 810 short even setae; male cercus small and desclerotized, and fused laterally with the surstylus and epandrium.
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The genus is characterized by: mesonotum without distinct cuticular patterns or bands; vein Sc incomplete, not upturned to costa; hypandrium reduced to narrow curved channel, joined to epandrium only at base, and which barely covers aedeagus along its length; female TIII slightly flattened laterally, with posterior surface from
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to
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slightly concave and bare of normal short vestiture (FSSC).
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<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FFFC7E48FF4DFCBB" bold="true" box="[121,254,831,855]" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Description</emphasis>
. (based on three included new species); body length 3.03.7.
<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FEA97E2AFED4FC98" box="[300,359,861,884]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Head</emphasis>
(
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): spheroidal with convex postcranium; row of pale postorbitals present, short ventrally, becoming longer dorsally; postcranium with scattered pale setae; post-occiput, vertex, frons and face mostly dark brown and covered with grey pruinosity; setae brown with yellowish reflections; ocellar triangle with 23 pairs of posterior setulae, and pair of diverging setae anteriad of lateral ocelli; frons with four strong setae along lateral margin; frons only slightly narrower than ocellar triangle; eyes notched laterad of antennae; face about as wide as frons, covered with grey pruinosity; palp yellow, elongate and curved, and with some long pale ventral setae; proboscis dark brown, slightly curved and stout; labrum brown with some yellow basal areas; scape and pedicel brown, subequal; postpedicel and style black; postpedicel flask-shaped with two-segmented style, and distal segment of style just slightly shorter than postpedicel.
<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FE0C7844FE65FAA6" box="[393,470,1331,1354]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Thorax</emphasis>
mostly uniform brown or black with grey pruinosity, without distinct mesonotal cuticular or pruinose patterns or bands; thoracic setae mostly yellowish; ac either biseriate or comprising band 34 setae wide; dc as row of short pale setae, with 46 longer setae along posterior mesonotal slope, and 1215 setae anteriad; 1 short postalar (pa) seta and row of 45 short supra-alar (sa) setae present; 23 posterior notopleural (npl) setae, with 45 short setulae anteriad; strong sr seta and shorter humeral seta present; some additional setae present on anterior thorax just mediad of humeral callus; pronotum with two pairs of pale diverging setae; prosternum with group of pale hairs; scutellum with 4 pairs of marginal setae.
<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FDD77BE4FD37F946" box="[594,644,1683,1706]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Legs</emphasis>
vestiture mostly yellow or brownish; CI with anterior and anterolateral setae; CII with anterior setae; CIII with some weak anterior setae, and 23 short lateral setae, and 23 posterior setae; tibia I with distinct anteroapical comb of 810 short, equal length setae of both sexes; tibia I often with long dorsal setae; male It
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greatly swollen (
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), female unmodified; femora II and III often with long dorsal and ventral setae; female TIII slightly flattened laterally, with posterior surface from
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to
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slightly concave and bare of normal short vestiture (FSSC).
<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FBF67C10FB19FE92" box="[1139,1194,359,382]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Wing</emphasis>
(
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) membrane hyaline; costa circumambient, although reduced in thickness along posterior margin; Sc incomplete, and straight, not upturned to costa; R
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slightly swollen before join with costa; faint stigma present; costa haired, but other veins bare; R
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branched, R
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gentle curve; R
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straight and ending at wing apex; M
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, M
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, and CuA
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all joining margin; CuA
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which closes cell cup, strongly recurrent; A
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present distally only as fold, and arising midway along cell cup; A
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present as trace; anal angle weak.
<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FBA67F18FB3BFD6A" box="[1059,1160,623,646]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Abdomen</emphasis>
mostly brown or black with pruinosity; setae longer along posterior margins of each tergum; hypopygium (
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); cercus distinct and divided into sclerotized short basal cercal plate and digitiform clasping cercus; epandrium with elongate posteriorly projecting setae; aedeagus elongate and conforming to curvature of hypandrium; hypandrium reduced reduced to narrow curved channel (and with median pointed projection), joined to epandrium only at base, and which barely covers aedeagus along its length; distinct surstylus not evident.
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.
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has a southern temperate distribution in
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, and is known from lowland sites in
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,
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, and southern interior
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. Moreover, adults are decidedly cool-adapted, with all known specimens collected between April and September. Further, mating pairs of
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were taken in July, mid-winter in Hobart,
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. It should be noted that southern
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and
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have more winter-flying
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than commonly assumed. There is a distinct bias against winter collecting, and indeed, visible insect activity is much reduced during cold days and frosty nights, especially when compared with the peak activity period from OctoberJanuary. However, samples from passive traps in western
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(unpublished data), reveal a rich winter
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fauna with many undescribed taxa. Mackerras (1950) noted that cooltemperate Australian
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(often with Gondwanan affinities) emerge in winter to early spring in the northern part of their range, but later in montane or southern localities. In this light, truly winter fauna, such as
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<emphasis id="E8EE1F30FFCDFF82FB407B4DFA94F9BD" box="[1221,1319,1594,1617]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="120">Eugowra</emphasis>
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, are even more likely to be Gondwanan.
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Mating behaviour is unknown. However, males have swollen fore basitarsi which probably produce silk for wrapping nuptial gifts, characteristic of the
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Hilara-
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</emphasis>
complex of genera.
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