DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5j64k
title: Data from: Bush Blitz aids description of three new species and a new genus of Australian beeflies (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Exoprosopini)

description: Bush Blitz is a three-year multimillion dollar program to document the
 plants and animals in hundreds of properties across Australia’s National
 Reserve System. The core focus is on nature discovery – identifying and
 describing new species of plants and animals. The Bush Blitz program has
 enabled the collection and description of beeflies (Diptera, Bombyliidae)
 from surveys in Western Australia and Queensland. Three new species of
 Australian beeflies belonging to the Exoprosopini are described; Palirika
 mackenziei Lambkin, sp. n., Palirika culgoafloodplainensis Lambkin, sp.
 n., and Larrpana bushblitz Lambkin, sp. n. Phylogenetic analysis of 40
 Australian exoprosopine species belonging to the Balaana generic-group
 Lambkin & Yeates, 2003 supports the placement of the three new
 species into existing genera, and the erection and description of the new
 genus Ngalki Lambkin, gen. n. for Ngalki trigonium (Lambkin &
 Yeates, 2003), comb. n. Revised keys are provided for the genera of the
 Australian Balaana genus-group and the species of Palirika Lambkin
 & Yeates, 2003 and Larrpana Lambkin & Yeates, 2003. With
 the description of the three new species and the transferral of Munjua
 trigona Lambkin & Yeates, 2003 into the new genus Ngalki Lambkin,
 gen. n., three genera are rediagnosed; Munjua Lambkin & Yeates,
 2003, Palirika and Larrpana.
description: LambkinOzBombs2011This NEXUS file, built using the program Mesquite version 2.74 (Maddison, WP and Maddison, DR, 2010) contains the scoring of 42 Australian beefly species (Diptera: Bombyliidae: Anthracinae: Exoprosopini) from the Balaana-group for 207 morphological characters as reported in CL Lambkin and JS Bartlett ZooKeys 2011 Bush Blitz aids description of three new species and a new genus of Australian beeflies (Diptera: Bombyliidae: Exoprosopini). Note also contains the chosen (one of 5) most parsimonious tree generated using PAUP*4.0b10 (Swofford, DL, 2002) as reported in CL Lambkin and JS Bartlett ZooKeys 2011 Bush Blitz aids description of three new species and a new genus of Australian beeflies (Diptera: Bombyliidae: Exoprosopini).LambkinWorldBombs2003This NEXUS file, built using the program Mesquite version 2.74 (Maddison, WP and Maddison, DR, 2010) contains the scoring of 78 beeflies (Diptera: Bombyliidae: Anthracinae) from the World fauna of Exoprosopini for 207 morphological characters as reported in Lambkin CL, Yeates DK, and Greathead DJ (2003) An evolutionary radiation of bee flies in semi-arid Australia: Systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 735-891. Note also contains and one most parsimonious tree (one of four) generated using PAUP*4.0b10 (Swofford, DL, 2002) as reported in Lambkin CL, Yeates DK, and Greathead DJ (2003) An evolutionary radiation of bee flies in semi-arid Australia: Systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 735-891.LambkinOzBombs2003This NEXUS file, built using the program Mesquite version 2.74 (Maddison, WP and Maddison, DR, 2010) contains the scoring of 46 beefly species (Diptera: Bombyliidae: Anthracinae: Exoprosopini) from the mostly Australian Balaana-group for 207 morphological characters as reported in Lambkin CL, Yeates DK, and Greathead DJ (2003) An evolutionary radiation of bee flies in semi-arid Australia: Systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 735-891. Note also contains and the single most parsimonious tree generated using PAUP*4.0b10 (Swofford, DL, 2002) as reported in Lambkin CL, Yeates DK, and Greathead DJ (2003) An evolutionary radiation of bee flies in semi-arid Australia: Systematics of the Exoprosopini (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17: 735-891.TreeBASE S12050