Taenogera Kröber

Winterton, Shaun L., 2007, New species of Nanexila Winterton & Irwin and Taenogera Kröber from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae), Zootaxa 1413, pp. 55-64 : 61

Taenogera Kröber

Taenogera Kröber, 1912a: 150 (description); Mann 1928: 163; Irwin and Lyneborg 1989: 358 (catalogue); Winterton et al. 1999b: 280 (redescription).

Type species: Taenogera longa Kröber (= Anabarhynchus nitidus Macquart ).

Diagnosis. Male frons width almost equal to female, fine pale setae present dorsally; multiple rows of postocular setae in male and female, occiput with silver, white or gold pubescence; abdomen often with triangular patches of silver velutum laterally on tergites 2–4; wing cell m3 open; fore and hind femora without elongate velutum patches; wing largely hyaline or smoky infuscate, sometimes darkened along anterior margin; distiphallus broad, parallel sided, dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath broadly ‘T’-shaped; velutum patches absent on gonocoxites.