Ngalki Lambkin

Lambkin, Christine L. & Bartlett, Justin S., 2011, Bush Blitz aids description of three new species and a new genus of Australian beeflies (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Exoprosopini), ZooKeys 150, pp. 231-280 : 246-247

Ngalki Lambkin gen. n.

Type species:

Munjua trigona Lambkin & Yeates, 2003: 804.

Diagnosis.

Wing with medial hyaline band linear and narrowing apically, apical infuscated band meeting posterior wing margin twice breadth of medial hyaline band (Fig. 9A, B). Gonocoxae deeply narrowed medially, broadly indented basally, with tufts of thickened setae ventromedially, H projecting forming finger-like extension (Figs 9E, 10F); AE short; EP with medioventral process above AE; very long AAES reaching G margins; EJA racquet-shaped, very long (Fig. 10). Sperm pump short with unpigmented papillae, apical endplate simple with thin processes; thick-walled round SR with no basal bulb (Fig. 9 F–H).

Etymology.

The name for the genus Ngalki is from the aboriginal term ngalki for "little finger" from the Ngiyampaa language spoken in much of central New South Wales ( Donaldson 1994), referring to the diagnostic character of the male genitalia for this genus, and is treated as neutral. This follows the tradition set in Lambkin et al. (2003), of using appropriate aboriginal terms for the names of new genera of Australian exoprosopines.

Included species: Munjua trigona Lambkin & Yeates, 2003

Comments.

See reference to the erection of the genus Ngalki in the phylogenetic results.