Species Agapophytus squamosus Mann, 1929

Agapophytus squamosus Holotype

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

Agapophytus squamosus Holotype label

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

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• Agapophytus squamosus Mann, J.S. 1929. Revisional notes on Australian Therevidae. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 6: 17-49 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM MEI023211 adult ♂ (H. Hacker, 26.xii.1924, in cop.), QLD: Brisbane.
  Paratype(s) QM MEI023212 adult ♀ (H. Hacker, 26.xii.1924, in cop.), QLD: Brisbane; UQIC MEI023210, MEI023214 1 adult ♂< 1 adult ♀ (9.xii.1926, G. R. Bass), QLD: Chinchilla; ANIC MEI091312–3, MEI108904–6 5 adult ♂, QLD: Clermont.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Scape much longer than head; frons slightly wider than ocellar tubercle; scutum overlain with brown pruinescence admixed with scattered white scales; postocular setae pale; legs bright orange; wing dark infuscate, yellow spot distally; male abdomen without silver velutum; spermathecal sac with outer reticulated lobes.

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