Species Agapophytus laparoceles Winterton & Irwin, 2001

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• Agapophytus laparoceles Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [501].

  Type data:

   Holotype WADA MEI027497 adult ♀ (1.iii.1970, K. T. Richards), WA: Lake Cronin.
  Paratype(s) WAM WAM87/2103 adult ♂ (17–23.iii.1979, T. F. Houston et al.), WA: 2.5 km N Mt Linden [29°19'S, 122°25'E]; WAM WAM87/2112 adult ♀ (22–28.ii.1980 T. F. Houston et al.), WA: 7.5 km SE Banjiwarn HS [27°42'S, 121°37'E]; BMNH MEI032088 adult ♂ (14.ii.1966, J. A. Grant), NT: Alice Springs.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Coolgardie (COO), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR)

Diagnosis

Scape length equal to head; male frons narrower than ocellar tubercle; head glossy black; thorax and abdomen orange,
anepisternum and katepisternum suffuse dark brown-black; wing smoky hyaline; inner gonocoxal process spatulate;
distiphallus very narrow; dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath narrow, T-shaped.

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