Species Anabarhynchus spinosus Lyneborg, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anabarhynchus spinosus Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). Leiden : Entomonograph, E.J.Brill Vol. 13 256 pp. [223].

  Type data:

   Holotype WADA MEI130275 adult ♂ (7.ix.1976, hand netted, K.T. Richards), WA: South Perth [32°S, 115.833°E].
  Paratype(s) WAM WAM872149-50 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (2.x.1986, hand netted, P. Lindsey), WA: Albany [35.02°S, 117.88°E]; ANIC 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (25.ix.1938), WA: Cranmore Park; WADA MEI126641, MEI126650 2 adult ♂ (7.x.1964, hand netted, P. Lawraple), WA: Donnybrook [33.567°S, 115.817°E]; WAM WAM872095 adult ♂ (10.ix.1978, hand netted, R. Easton), WA: Esperance [33.867°S, 121.883°E]; DEMD MEI075614, MEI126239-41 1 adult ♂, 2 adult ♀ (28.x.1979, hand netted, R.M. Bohart {some specimens in ZMUC}), WA: Manjimup [34.25°S, 116.167°E]; WADA MEI126643 adult ♀ (1.x.1941, hand netted, P.N.F.), WA: Mount Barker [34.617°S, 117.667°E]; WADA MEI126644 adult ♂ (29.ix.1940, hand netted, F.V.K.), WA: Nedlands [31.983°S, 115.8°E]; WAM WAM872071 adult ♀ (Jan 1974, hand netted, K.B. Rowland), WA: Palmyra, Perth [32.05°S, 115.783°E]; WADA MEI126653 adult ♀ (Aug 1948, hand netted), WA: Perth [32°S, 115.833°E]; WADA adult ♂, WA: Pickering Brook.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

Diagnosis

Medium-sized species. Prosternal furrow with pile. Sternopleuron without any pile. Costal setae biserially arranged, but often with a few extra setae on dorsal surface. Ventral pile of hind femur with setae half as long as femoral width. All femora entirely yellowish. In the male, the straight and heavily built distiphallus is easily observed without dissection; gonocoxal process with a dorsal thorn.

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