Species Agapophytus eli Winterton & Irwin, 2001

Agapophytus eli Holotype

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Agapophytus eli Holotype label

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

Museums

Regional Maps

• Agapophytus eli Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [496].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T99130 adult ♂ (740m, 20.xi.1995, M. E. Irwin, Malaise trap, MEI031412), QLD: Carnarvon N.P., Mt Moffatt Section, 3 km SE Hdqts [Headquarters] [25°04'39''S, 148°00'30''E].
  Paratype(s) QM T99132-3 2 adult ♂ (760m, 20.xi.1995, S. Gaimari, on eucalypt trunk, MEI021415–6), QLD: Carnarvon N.P., Mt Moffatt Section [24°58'08''S, 147°57'13''E]; QM T99131 adult ♂ (900m, 25–26.xi.1995, S. Gaimari, M. E. Irwin, Malaise trap, MEI031249), QLD: Carnarvon N.P., Mt Moffatt Section [24°54'34''S, 148°00'29''E]; QM T32890, T32893 2 adult ♂ (12–14.i.1997, C. J. Burwell, MEI091530–1), QLD: Taroom District, Prices Ck., nr. Boggomoss 30 [25°29'S, 150°02'E]; QM T32889 adult ♂ (15.ix.1996, C.J. Burwell, S. Evans, MEI091529), QLD: Taroom District, Prices Ck., nr Boggomoss 30 [25°29'S, 150°08'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Diagnosis

Scape much longer than head; male upper frons much wider than ocellar tubercle; pedicel and flagellum black; male
occiput with multiple rows of postocular setae; scape, fore tibia and fore basitarsus bright yellow, fore tarsi black
distally; hind tibia black on ventral surface, yellow on dorsal surface; gonocoxite with velutum extending postero-dorsally
onto ventral lobe.

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