Species Anabarhynchus bigoti Lyneborg, 2001

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Regional Maps

• Anabarhynchus bigoti Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). Leiden : Entomonograph, E.J.Brill Vol. 13 256 pp. [55].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC MEI130248 adult ♂ (19.ix.1951, hand netted, T.G. Campbell.), ACT: Jervis Bay, Lake Windermere [35.132°S, 150.699°E].
  Paratype(s) UQIC MEI126142-6, MEI127507, MEI127521-2, MEI127531, MEI129496, MEI129508, MEI129515 7 adult ♂, 5 adult ♀ (collected 1930-1957 by various collectors), QLD: various localities in the SE; MEI127445-7, MEI127453, MEI130198, MEI130204-5, MEI130209, MEI130211, MEI130217 1 adult ♂, 9 adult ♀ (collected 1925-1976 by various collectors, held in GDCB, AM and ANIC), NSW: various localities around Sydney & Blue Mountains; MEI127443-4, MEI127448-52, MEI127454-455 3 adult ♂, 6 adult ♀ (17-19.ix.1951; T.G. Campbell, S.J. Paramonov & K.R. Noris; hand netted; held in ANIC & ZMUC), ACT: Jervis Bay, Lake Windemere [35.132°S, 150.699°E].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Medium-sized species. Male at once recognised in a caudal view by a pair of thin, yellow-brown, posteriorly projecting lamellae surrounding the long and narrow distiphallus at an angle of 75º. Female easily recognised by structure of furcar (but dissection of course necessary). Prosternal furrow and sternopleuron without pile. Fore femora grey-black, with several pd's; av's absent or only present at apex. Mesonotum pure dark grey, without the slightest brownish tinge.

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