Species Agapophytus discolor Winterton & Irwin, 2001

Holotype Agapophytus discolor

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Agapophytus discolor Holotype label

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Agapophytus discolor Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [495].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T99129 adult ♂ (13.xii.1986, G. Daniels, M. A. Schneider, Malaise, MEI027460), QLD: Wenlock River [13°05'S, 142°56'E].
  Paratype(s) GDCB MEI027456–7, MEI027462 3 adult ♂ (10.x.1979, M. S. and B. J. Moulds), QLD: Jardine R., Cape York Peninsula [11°08'S, 142°24'E]; UQIC MEI033624 adult ♀ (5.v.1995, 180 m, G. Daniels, M. A. Schneider), QLD: Ridgepole Waterhole, 24 km ESE Musselbrook Resource Centre, Lawn Hill N.P. [18°40'15''S, 138°22'15''E]; ANIC MEI027464 adult ♂ (1.xi.1972, D. H. Colless), NT: Cooper Ck, 11 km SW Nimbuwah Rock; ANIC MEI027459 adult ♂ (28.x.1975, M. S. Upton), NT: 46 km SSW Borroloola [16°28'S, 136°09'E]; ANIC MEI027473 adult ♀ (5.xi.1972, D. H. Colless), NT: 5 km NNW Cahills crossing, East Alligator River; ANIC MEI027461 adult ♂ (16.xii.1975, E. Exley & R. Storey), WA: 6 km S Broome; ANIC MEI027463 adult ♀ (9–15.viii.1975, I. F. B. Common & M. S. Upton), WA: Carson escarpment [14°49'S, 126°49'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK)

Diagnosis

Scape slightly longer than head, male upper frons much narrower than ocellar tubercle; thorax pale yellow-orange; abdomen black with pale yellow-orange terminalia; ventral lobe enlarged; velutum patch flat; distiphallus ornately shaped; spermathecal ducts with large, spherical valve structure.

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