Apiocera minor Norris 1936

Apiocera minor Norris 1936: 61. (Figs. 6, 19). Diagnosis. A small, elongate, grey and black species. Proboscis 1.0 x length of fore tibia, flagellum 3 x longer than maximum width, costa ending at CuA+A 1, vein M 3 +CuA 1 present, M 2 present. 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. collessi, Fig. 16). Quite similar to A. cerata but distinguished by shorter brown hairs on segment 8 of the abdomen.
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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