Species Agapophytus septentrionalis Winterton & Irwin, 2001

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• Agapophytus septentrionalis Winterton, S.L. & Irwin, M.E. 2001. Phylogenetic revision of Agapophytus Guérin (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 467-526 [514].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC MEI 023259 adult ♂ (9–15.viii.1975, I.F.B. Common & M.S. Upton), WA: Carson escarpment [14°49'S, 126°49'E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC MEI023258, MEI023260-1 3 adult ♀ (9–15.viii.1975, I.F.B. Common & M.S. Upton), WA: Carson escarpment [14°49'S, 126°49'E]; ANIC MEI023257, MEI023262 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (3–8.viii.1975, I.F.B. Common & M.S. Upton), WA: Drysdale River [15°02'S, 126°55'E]; ANIC MEI 023238, MEI023271 2 adult ♂ (16.iv.1976, D. H. Colless, at light), NT: 22 km WSW Borroloola; ANIC MEI023270 adult ♀ (15.iv.1976, D.H. Colless), NT: Batten Ck, 31 km WSW Borroloola; ANIC MEI023263–4 2 adult ♀ (6.xi.1972, D.H. Colless), NT: Magela Ck, 9 km SSE Mudginbarry HS; ANIC MEI023265 adult ♀ (1.xi.1972, D.H. Colless), NT: Cooper Ck, 11 km SW Nimbuwah Rock,; ANIC MEI023266 adult ♀ (15.xi.1972, D.H. Colless), NT: Koongarra, 15 km E Mt Cahill; QM T99117-9 3 adult ♀ (200m, 24.iv.1995, G. Daniels & M. A. Schneider, MEI033604–6), QLD: Murrays Spring, 7 km W Musselbrook Resource Centre, Lawn Hill N.P., [18°35'15''S, 138°04'28''E]; UQIC MEI033600, MEI033603 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (13.vi.1995; G.R. Brown), QLD: Musselbrook Res., Murray Spring [18°35'S, 138°03'E]; ANIC MEI023283 adult ♂ (17.ix.1992, P. Zborowski, T. Weir, Malaise), QLD: Heathlands [11°45'S, 142°35'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK)

Diagnosis

Scape slightly longer than head; male upper frons narrower than ocellar tubercle; scutum overlain with grey-silver
suffusion laterally, admixed with scattered white scales; white scales around base of antenna; scutal bristles black;
postocular setae pale; male abdomen without silver velutum; spermathecal sac with outer reticulated lobes.

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