Parageron Paramonov, 1929

Gibbs, David, 2023, A world review of the bee fly tribe Usiini (Diptera, Bombyliidae) - Part 3: Parageron Paramonov s. lat., European Journal of Taxonomy 863 (1), pp. 1-162 : 35

Genus Parageron Paramonov, 1929

Type species

Parageron orientalis Paramonov, 1929 by monotypy.

Diagnosis

Rather delicate pale yellow species ( Par. erythraeus darker), male eyes holoptic (or very narrowly separated in Par. erythraeus ) with upper facets enlarged. The single feature differentiating this genus from all others in Parageron s. lat. is the presence of a round blackish (sometimes velvety) spot placed on the thoracic suture above the notopleuron (see TSS in Gibbs 2011: fig. 2).

Etymology

‘Near Geron ’, referring to similarity with the genus Geron (from ‘Para’, ‘Παρά’ Greek prefix = ‘near’ and ‘ geron ’, from Greek ‘γέρων’ = ‘old man’).

Included species

Parageron erythraeus ( Greathead, 1967)

Parageron lutescens ( Bezzi, 1925)

Parageron longilingua sp. nov.

Parageron orientalis Paramonov, 1929