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Classification
Lygistorrhina edwardsi Lane, 1946
Lygistorrhina edwardsi (after Lane, 1946)
Morphology:Female: — Head. Probosci s slightly shorter than the length of the abdomen, dark brown, attenuated distally; clypeus pruinose, with short setae; eyes like in L. coxata; antenna with the scape and torus light brown, flagellum with the first five segments reddish brown, the remaining ones blackish, all segments with short setae; occiput blackish brown; the ocelli quite removed from the eye margin. Thorax. Mesonotum brown but of a lighter color on the sides, covered with short pilosity and small black setae which are longer over the root of wings and in the prescutellar region; scutellum dark brown and with about six setae on the hind margin besides some smaller ones; postnotum blackish; pleurae brown and darker than the mesonotum, pronotum, propleura and pleurotergite with setae, the pleurotergite bulges and has the setae on a posterior row. Wing with the characters of L. coxata. Haltere yellowish. Abdomen blackish, the first five tergites with broad apical yellow bands; cerci elongate and whitish.
Male: — Unknown.
Lygistorrhina edwardsi distribution
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