Genus Anabarhynchus Macquart, 1848

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• Anabarhynchus Macquart, J. 1848. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 2ème supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1847(2): 161-237, pls 1-7 [Date published before 22 November 1848] [231, 234, pl. 3, fig. 7] [Irwin and Lyneborg (1989: 355), acting as first revisers of Anabarhynchus, established Anabarhynchus Macquart, 1848: 231, as the correct original spelling with precedence over Anabarynchus Macquart, 1848: 191 and Anabarhinchus Macquart, 1848: 192].

  Type species:

   Anabarhinchus fasciatus Macquart, 1848 (Incorr. orig. spell. of Anabarhynchus Macquart 1848: 192) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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. [354, 355]; Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). Leiden : Entomonograph, E.J.Brill Vol. 13 256 pp. [27].
• Platycarenum Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 116-125 [118] (key).

  Type species:

   Platycarenum porrectifrons Kröber, 1912 by subsequent monotypy, see Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 242-256 [244] (Description).

  Secondary source:

   Kröber, O. 1912. Die Thereviden der indoaustralischen Region. (Dipt). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1: 242-256 [243] (description).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). Leiden : Entomonograph, E.J.Brill Vol. 13 256 pp. [27]

Introduction

Members of Anabarhynchus are relatively pilose, robust therevids. Anabarhynchus is found in Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand and is the most species rich genus in the region (approx. 200 species) with still many undescribed species in collections.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Victorian Midlands (VM) ; ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Riverina (RIV) ; ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM) ; ACT, NSW, Vic: Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU) ; NT, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; SA, Tas, Vic, WA: King (KIN), Warren (WAR) ; Tas: Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Diagnosis

Antenna broad, often with large setae; cell m3 open; hind femur with one or more anteroventral apical setae; femora with appressed scales and dark ventral setae; postspiracular pile usually present; velutum patches absent on fore and hind femora and gonocoxites; inner gonocoxal process present; distiphallus with broad dorsal apodeme, simple ventral apodeme; female with two spermathecae.

Diagnosis References

Lyneborg, L. 1992. Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera). pp. 1-139 in Fauna of New Zealand/ Ko te Aitanga Pepeke o Aotearoa. Auckland : DSIR Plant Protection/ Te Wahanga Manaaki Tupu 139 pp.

Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). In, Entomonograph. Stenstrup, Denmark : Apollo Books 256 pp.

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