Data from: Bush Blitz aids description of three new species and a new genus of Australian beeflies (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Exoprosopini)

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.

灌木突击普查（Bush Blitz）是一项为期三年、耗资数百万美元的科研项目，旨在对澳大利亚国家保护区系统内数百处保护地中的动植物进行记录与编目。其核心聚焦于自然发现——即鉴定并记述全新的动植物物种。
本项目助力完成了西澳大利亚州与昆士兰州野外调查中采集的蜂虻（beeflies，双翅目Diptera：蜂虻科Bombyliidae）的标本采集与物种记述工作。本次研究共描述了隶属于突蜂虻族（Exoprosopini）的3个澳大利亚蜂虻新物种：*Palirika mackenziei* Lambkin, sp. n.、*Palirika culgoafloodplainensis* Lambkin, sp. n. 以及 *Larrpana bushblitz* Lambkin, sp. n.。
针对隶属于Balaana属群（Balaana generic-group Lambkin & Yeates, 2003）的40个澳大利亚突蜂虻亚科物种开展的系统发育分析结果显示：本次记述的3个新物种可归入现有属，同时支持为*Ngalki trigonium*（Lambkin & Yeates, 2003）建立新属Ngalki Lambkin, gen. n.并进行正式分类学记述，即新组合*Ngalki trigonium*（Lambkin & Yeates, 2003）comb. n.。
本研究为澳大利亚Balaana属群各属，以及Palirika Lambkin & Yeates, 2003与Larrpana Lambkin & Yeates, 2003的物种提供了修订后的分类检索表。
随着本次3个新物种的正式记述，以及原*Munjua trigona* Lambkin & Yeates, 2003被归入新属Ngalki Lambkin, gen. n.，本次研究重新修订了3个属的分类特征：Munjua Lambkin & Yeates, 2003、Palirika以及Larrpana。