Species Anabarhynchus megaphallus Lyneborg, 2001

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• Anabarhynchus megaphallus Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). Leiden : Entomonograph, E.J.Brill Vol. 13 256 pp. [235].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K186587 adult ♂ (4.iv.1992, G. Daniels, C.J. Burwell), 3.5 km WSW of Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island, QLD [27.445°S, 153.471°E].
  Paratype(s) ZMUC MEI129641 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (3.iv.1992, MV light, G. Daniels), QLD: 4 km WSW Point Lookout, North Stradbroke Island [27.433°S, 153.5°E]; GDCB MEI129747 adult ♀ (16.iii.1986, hand netted, G. Daniels), QLD: 13 km North of Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island [26.917°S, 153.15°E]; GDCB MEI129650 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (11.iii.1988, MV light, G. Daniels), QLD: 13 km N Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island [26.917°S, 153.15°E]; UIMNH MEI031485 adult ♀ (370m, 7-9.xi.1995, malaise, 9m Fock's: 4, M.E. Irwin, S.D. Gaimari {in Mike Irwin collection}), QLD: Brisbane Forest Park, top Scrub Road [27.42°S, 152.848°E]; BPBM adult ♀ (27.i.-1.ii.1961), QLD: Moggill Farm; ANIC MEI126473 adult ♂ (21.xii.1987, malaise trap, M.E. Irwin), QLD: Moggill State Forest, entrance to Chalcot Road [27.517°S, 152.883°E]; QDPI MEI127615 adult ♀ (7.vii.1979, sweep net, I.D. Galloway), QLD: Camp Mountain [27.417°S, 152.883°E]; GDCB adult ♀ (11.x.1986), QLD: Mary River Heads, nr Maryborough; UQIC MEI129741, MEI129745 2 adult ♂ (23.xi.1981, MV light, G. Daniels, M.A. Schneider, 1 specimen in ZMUC), NSW: Boonoo Boonoo Falls [28.767°S, 152.15°E]; GDCB MEI129621 adult ♀ (12.xii.1981, G.& A. Daniels), NSW: Boonoo Boonoo Falls [28.767°S, 152.15°E]; UQIC adult ♀ (29.xi.1981), NSW: Boonoo Boonoo River.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: New England Tablelands (NET), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Medium-sized species. Prosternal furrow without pile. Sternopleuron with some whitish pile above. Costal setae biserial. Fore femur grey-black in basal half, yellowish in apical half. Middle and hind femora yellowish, more or less grey-black in basal half or less. Fore femur with pd and middle femur with pd and pv macrosetae. The very long ventral pile on the gonostyle shows without dissection, as well as the lobes of the distiphallus apex.

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