Species Agapophytus pallidicornis (Kröber, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phycus pallidicornis Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 116-125 [124].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZSMC adult ♂ (F. Hermann {Hermann Collection}), NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [506].
• Agapophytus flavicornis Mann, J.S. 1929. Revisional notes on Australian Therevidae. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 6: 17-49 [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM MEI023339 adult ♂ (30.x.1921, H. Hacker), QLD: Brisbane.
  Paratype(s) QM MEI023344 adult ♀ (2.i.1928, J. Mann), QLD: Ferny Grove; DPIQ MEI091143 adult ♂ (7.xi.1916, H. Hacker), QLD: Brisbane; ANIC MEI091268 adult ♂ (7.xi.1916, H. Hacker), QLD: Brisbane; ANIC MEI 010887–8 2 adult ♂ (4.x.1923), QLD: Westwood; ANIC MEI 108875–6 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (Dec. 1922, Jan. 1925, G. H. Hardy), QLD: Brisbane; ANIC MEI091270 adult ♂ (Nov. 1926, G. R. Bass), QLD: Chinchilla.

  Type locality references:

  Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [506].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Winterton, S.L. in Winterton, S.L., Yang, L., Wiegmann, B.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytinae subf. n. (Diptera: Therevidae) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 26: 173-211 [210]

 

Generic Combinations

• Agapophytus pallidicornis (Kröber, 1912). —
  Irwin, M.E. & Lyneborg, L. 1989. Family Therevidae. pp. 353-358 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Holotype of Phycus recorded from New South Wales (no other information)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Antenna, frons, fore tibia and tarsi bright yellow; scape much longer than head; antennal base positioned high on frons;
short, dark setae just below antenna on lower frons; male frons much wider than ocellar tubercle; male occiput convex;
wing with dark apical infuscation; spermathecal sac with outer reticulated lobes; spermathecal ducts long.

 

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [506]

 

History of changes

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