Bromley, S. W. 1929. Notes on the asilid genera Bombomima and Laphria with descriptions of three new species and two new varieties (Diptera). Canadian Entomologist Vol. 61, Page 159-160.

A race of posticata with the vestiture more yellowish than the above but in [p. 160] general with a more brownish tinge than the typical form. The scutellum has the bristles yellowish instead of black.

Holotype. [Male], Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, July 7, 1889.

Paratypes. [Males], Three others from Sudbury, Ont., July 7, 1889; Fairy Lake, Quebec, June 15, 1923 (R. Ozburn); Lake Nipigon July 1, 1882 (James Fletcher); a [male] and [female] on same pin from Aylmer, Quebec, July 24, 1924 (C. H. Curran).

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