Species Agapophytus palmulus Winterton & Irwin, 2001

Agapophytus palmulus Holotype

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Agapophytus palmulus Holotype label

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Agapophytus palmulus Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [508].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T99151 adult ♂ (open eucalypt forest, 17.x.1997, Winterton, Power, White, Malaise trap, MEI092505), QLD: Scrub Rd., Brisbane Forest Park, [27°25'05''S, 152°50'13''E].
  Paratype(s) QM T99152 adult ♀ (dense rainforest, 720m, 22–29.xi.1995, M. E. Irwin, Malaise, MEI088924), QLD: Mt Glorious, Tony Hiller’s property [27°20'07''S, 152°45'30''E]; QM T99153 adult ♀ (rainforest, 14.xi.1997, Winterton, Power, White, Hiller, Malaise trap, MEI092506), QLD: Mt Glorious, Biological centre, main road [27°20'20"S, 152°45'30"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Scape slightly shorter than head; male frons narrower than ocellar tubercle; occiput concave; scutum glossy black, overlain with orange, pruinescent stripe medially; inner gonocoxal process very large, paddle-shaped; dorsal apodeme of parameral sheath reduced; spermathecal sac spherical, without outer reticulated lobes; spermathecal ducts join to spermathecal sac duct proximal to spermathecal sac.

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