taxonID	type	description	language	source
9017E6BA61E39F9E36FD099FC128546E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Separated from its congeners by the all black infuscated wing (hyaline in Marleyimyia goliath and Marleyimyia natalensis), and the mesonotal pattern of black hairs anteriorly and yellow hairs posteriorly (entirely black-haired in Marleyimyia goliath and predominantly yellowish brown-haired in Marleyimyia natalensis).	en	Marshall, Stephen A., Evenhuis, Neal L. (2015): New species without dead bodies: a case for photo-based descriptions, illustrated by a striking new species of Marleyimyia Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from South Africa. ZooKeys 525: 117-127, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.525.6143, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.525.6143
9017E6BA61E39F9E36FD099FC128546E.taxon	description	Description. Female. Body: ca. 18 - 20 mm in length (extrapolated from comparison of grass blade width of Eremochroa (centipede grass) in a larger habitus photograph [No. 7009]). Head (Fig. 2). As wide or wider than thorax, shining black in ground colour with some bluish highlights, clothed with silvery white hairs and tomentum. Frons width ca. 1 / 3 of head width at occiput; ocellar triangle ellipsoid, lateral ocelli slightly larger than anterior ocellus; occiput with short silvery white hairs dorsally, silvery white tomentum along posterior eye margin, tomentum densest at medial eye indentation and on postgena. Eye dark bluish black, indented medially on posterior margin, with bisecting line length ca. half eye width. Frons short silvery white pilose and tomentose, bare medially below ocellar triangle, pile longest and densest at level of antennae. Face receding with dense silvery white hairs, oral margin narrowly brownish orange near eye margin. Antenna (Fig. 3 A) cinereous; scape subcylindrical with admixed black and white hairs dorsally and laterally; pedicel subellipsoid, wider than long, bare; flagellomere long, ca. 4 x length of scape, linear-lanceolate, bare, slightly bulging basally, slightly tapering to apex; apical style minute. Thorax. Mesonotum and pleura shining black in ground color (scutellum ground color obscured); mesonotum with dense short " clipped-looking " black pile anteriorly to level of wing base, yellow pile from wing base to posterior edge of mesonotal disc including postalar calli, long, shaggy laterally, short and " clipped-looking " on disc; scutellum densely shaggy yellow pilose; pleura thickly black haired, those hairs on anepisternum with dark brownish sheen. (Halter and pleural area under wing obscured in photos). Legs. (Hind femur obscured in photographs). Fore and mid legs (and hind legs beyond femur) black with a shiny greasy appearance, some bluish highlights on femora and tarsi. Fore and mid femora short, stout, with long black hairs ventrally, longest basally, tapering to shorter apical hairs; tibiae shorter than femora, with short black spicules. Wing (Fig. 4). Infuscated dark brownish black throughout except brownish infuscation in center of anal lobe and cell fourth posterior cell and subhyaline apex of wing, veins black; crossvein r-m just proximal to middle of cell dm (with anomalous second crossvein in left wing); veins R 2 + 3 and R 4 sinuous, subparallel to wing margin; origin or R 2 + 3 just before r-m crossvein; first posterior cell open in wing margin; crossvein dm-m S-shaped, origin on vein M 4 at basal one-fourth; crossvein m-m slightly wider than r-m; cell cua narrowly open in wing margin; anal lobe well developed; alula small. Abdomen. Broad, ovular in shape, shining black in ground color with bluish highlights (sternites not visible); tergite II and III with admixed short silvery white hair and tomentum dorsolaterally and sparse silvery tomentum with bluish highlights dorsomedially; tergites IV-VII with adpressed black tomentum and sparse silvery white tomentum dorsomedially. Genitalia. Not dissected.	en	Marshall, Stephen A., Evenhuis, Neal L. (2015): New species without dead bodies: a case for photo-based descriptions, illustrated by a striking new species of Marleyimyia Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from South Africa. ZooKeys 525: 117-127, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.525.6143, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.525.6143
