Species Anthrax crenatus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

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• Anthrax crenatus Yeates, D.K. & Lambkin, C.L. 1998. Review of the tribe Anthracini (Diptera: Bombyliidae) in Australia: cryptic species diversity and the description of Thraxon, gen. nov. Invertebrate Taxonomy 12(6): 977-1078 [1018].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, NT, 15 km S by E of Mudginberri (as Mudginbarry) H.S. (scarp foot).
  Paratype(s) UQIC 2♂ 3♀, NT, Lawn Hill Natl Park, Border Waterhole, 15km W of Musselbrook Resource Centre, 18°36'44"S 137°59'30"E, 200 m; WADA ♂, WA, 12 km NE Bandya Station; ANIC ♀, QLD, McPherson Range; ANIC 2♀, NT, 9 km NE Mudginbarry [Mudginberri] Homestead, in valley.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Flagellum with swollen base about size of pedicel, gradually tapering toward apex. Haltere knob with basal third dark brown, apex cream. Wing venation simple; lacking i-r crossvein and spur-veins. Wing pattern similar to A. proconcisus; wing membrane divided distinctly into anterobasal half with dark brown-black infuscation; posterior and apical regions of membrane hyaline (Fig. 12). Division between regions running from apical fifth of cell a1 to apex of Sc with small, rounded extension into cell r5 between r-m and apex of cell dm-cu, reaching posterior margin of cell. Tergites 2–5 with black hairs and tomentum with some light brown scales along posterior margin of tergites. Tergites 6 and 7 with light brown scales. Male genitalia (Figs 123, 124) with basiphallus of normal proportions and epiphallus with blunt, recurved, sclerotised dorsal apical hook, ventral apical flange sharp in lateral view forming sharp, long apical projections extending beyond apex of phallus in dorsal view. Female genitalia with spermathecal bulb round, attached to pump by long, arrow neck.

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