Species Agapophytus aterrimus Mann, 1929

Agapophytus aterrimus Holotype label

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

Agapophytus aterrimus Holotype

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

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• Agapophytus aterrimus Mann, 1929.

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T3500 adult ♂ (10.x.1916, H. Hacker, MEI023179), QLD: Brisbane.
  Paratype(s) QM T99282 adult ♀ (30.vi.1924, Mackerras, labelled as "allotype", MEI023173), NSW: Mosman; ANIC MEI091314 adult ♀ (Filvier[?]), NSW: Toronto.

  Type locality references:

  Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [481].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Scape much longer than head; scutum with short, white scales; lower frons with elongate white scales; wing with strong black and yellow banding; legs black; male abdomen with extensive, silver velutum; distiphallus relatively broad, directed ventrally; spermathecal sac with outer reticulated lobes.

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