Species Agapophytus queenslandi Kröber, 1929

Agapophytus varipennis Holotype

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Agapophytus varipennis Holotype label

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• Agapophytus queenslandi Kröber, O. 1929. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Thereviden und Tabaniden. (Dipt.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 5: 417-434 [417].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNUB MEI090889 adult ♀, QLD.
• Agapophytus varipennis Mann, J.S. 1929. Revisional notes on Australian Therevidae. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 6: 17-49 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM MEI023761 adult ♂ (Filvier[?]), NSW: Toronto.
  Paratype(s) AM MEI024038 adult ♀ (Filvier[?], pinned with holotype), NSW: Toronto; ANIC MEI0911320 adult ♀ (Jan. 1925, ‘SU Zoo Exp.’), NSW: Barrington Top; ANIC MEI108958 adult ♀ (20.i.1924, Nicholson), NSW: Mittagong,.

  Type locality references:

  Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [512].

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]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Scape much longer than head; male frons narrower than ocellar tubercle; male occiput concave; wing mottled infuscate; terminalia brown; antero-lateral corners of epandrium expanded; inner gonocoxal process spatulate; ventral lobe ridge-like, acuminate posteriorly; gonocoxal apodeme very short; hypandrium greatly reduced; distiphallus tapered; spermathecal sac very small, elongate, without outer reticulated lobes.

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [512]

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