Bonjeania

Bonjeania clamosis, photographed by Shaun Winterton.
Belongs within: Agapophytinae.

Bonjeania is a genus of stilletto flies found in southern and eastern Australia and Tasmania.

Characters (from Winterton et al. 2001): Antennae positioned low on frons; scape 2 times length of pedicel; flagellum short, conical-shaped; antennae shorter than head length; scape and pedicel with short setae admixed with longer setae; frons with glossy tubercle usually present above antennae; male frons width variable, narrower than female; male occiput concave with single row of postocular setae; female occiput convex with multiple poorly defined rows of postocular setae; palp and labellum short, spatulate; femora all equal length; wing cell m₃ closed; wing infuscation usually sexually dimorphic; abdominal tergite 2 with posteromedial patch of modified setae; posterior margin abdominal tergites 1-4 often with thickened band of velutum orientated anteriorly; epandrium short; cerci elongate; gonocoxites inverted wedge shape in profile, velutum present on medial atrium membrane; gonocoxal apodemes usually greatly elongate, greater than 4 times length of gonocoxite, rarely shorter; ventral lobe narrow, directed medially; distiphallus usually extremely long, thin; ejaculatory apodeme and lateral ejaculatory apodeme greatly enlarged; female with single spermatheca; anterior margin of female sternite 8 emarginate; spermathecal duct joins spermathecal sac duct proximal to sac; spermathecal sac simple, spherical (rarely reduced).

<==Bonjeania Irwin & Lyneborg 1989 [=Lonchorhynchus White 1915 non Wiman 1910] WY01
    |--*B. nitidifrons (Macquart 1850) [=Anabarhynchus nitidifrons, *Lonchorhynchus nitidifrons] WY01
    |--B. actuosa White 1915 WY01
    |--B. angelikae Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01
    |--B. clamosis Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01
    |--B. dynastis Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01
    |--B. flavofemoralis Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01
    |--B. irwinae Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01
    |--B. orphne Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01
    |--B. segnis White 1915 WY01
    `--B. trilineata Winterton & Skevington in Winterton et al. 2000 WY01

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[WY01] Winterton, S. L., L. Yang, B. M. Wiegmann & D. K. Yeates. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytinae subf. n. (Diptera: Therevidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 26: 173-211.