Apiocera australis Paramonov 1953

Apiocera australis Paramonov 1953: 474. Diagnosis A small, elongate, grey and black species. Proboscis 0.8 x length of fore tibia, flagellum 2 x longer than maximum width, costa ending at M veins, vein M 3 +CuA 1 absent, M 2 present, becoming pale towards wing margin. Abdomen black with lateral grey markings extending from posterior margin of tergite towards anterior margin on tergites 1-4, and extending from anterior margin towards posterior on tergites 5-6 (like A. microeremia, Fig. 17).
Published as part of Yeates, David K. & Oberprieler, Stefanie K., 2013, Review of the Australian Apiocera minor Norris species-group (Diptera: Apioceridae) with a revised key to species, pp. 195-209 in Zootaxa 3680 (1) on page 198, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/218744
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