Species Anthrax dolabratus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

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• Anthrax dolabratus 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 [1022].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K75649 ♂, NSW, Mt Tomah, Blue Mtns [33° 32' 38" S 150° 25' 16" E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 2♀, ACT, Blundell's; AM 6♀, NSW, Mt Tomah, Blue Mtns; AM ♀, NSW, Willoughby; AM ♀, NSW, Waterfall, near Sydney; AM K43224 ♀, NSW, Ulong, Dorrigo; GDCB ♂, NSW, Stanwell Tops; AM ♀, NSW, Seaforth, Sydney; MMUS ♀, NSW, Roseville; MMUS ♀, NSW, Northmead; MMUS ♀, NSW, Killara; MMUS 3♀, NSW, Katoomba; MMUS ♀, NSW, Hazelbrook; GDCB ♀, NSW, Engadine, 34°06'S 150°59'E; GDCB ♀, NSW, Bumberry, 33°11'S 148°30'E; ANIC ♀ (bred ex pupa, emerged 15.xii.1960, ex. Hymenoptera), NSW, Armidale, N.E. University; UQIC ♀, NSW, Bald Rock Natl Park, 25 km SE Stanthorpe; AM 4♀, Bayview, near Sydney.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults have emerged from Hymenopteran pupae in Armidale and Gordon, NSW and one specimen was collected from Scelephron (Sphecidae) nests in Bayview, NSW in April, and emerged in August of the same year .

Diagnosis

Haltere knob with anterior half dark brown and posterior half cream-yellow. Wing venation simple, with no spur-veins. Wing pattern similar to A. asciculus with dense dark brown–black marking on anterobasal portion of wing and remainder of wing hyaline. Line dividing regions distinct and passing from apex of cell a1 to r-m, along R4+5 to level of apex of cell dm-cu and then to apex of Sc (Fig. 13). Tergites 6 and 7 of male abdomen with black hairs and tomentum on median quarter; scattered black hairs and dense silver scales on remainder. Male genitalia with basiphallus of normal proportions and apex of epiphallus a broad dorsal plate terminating in sharp medial projection; broad, flattened lateral flanges surround apex of phallus in dorsal view, not continuing around neck of epiphallus basally, externally neck of epiphallus narrow; ventral hook blunt. Female spermathecal bulb narrow, elongate cylinder.

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