DASTPOGONINAE 



ROBBER FLIES OF THE WORLD 



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tion of the tergite. Males with eight tergites, the 

 eighth quite short and still shorter laterally ; the females 

 with eight tergites, the last one only a little shortened. 

 Male terminalia not rotate. The epandrium is cleft 

 to the base but overlapping on the basal half. The 

 apical portion is divergent ; its sides tightly overlapping 

 the convex lower forceps. Gonopod of moderate size. 

 The hypandrium is large and convex but most of the 

 ventral part of the terminalia is exposed. Females 



with a row of stout, long spines on the acanthophorites, 

 5 on each side. 



Distribution: Australian: Thereutria amaraeus 

 Walker (1849) [ = aurifacies Macquart (1849), calcar 

 Loew (1851), caligula Bigot (1878), compacta Walker 

 (1851), diversicolor Macquart (18-49), diversipes 

 Macquart (1855), diversipes Kirby (1884), idlmus 

 Walker (1855)]; luctuosa Macquart (1838); pulchra 

 Schiner (1868) ; pulchripes White (1917). 



