Species Anthrax torulus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

Anthrax torulus Holotype

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

Anthrax torulus Holotype label

© Copyright Queensland Museum CC-BY-NC, photo G. Thompson

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Regional Maps

• Anthrax torulus 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 [1001].

  Type data:

   Holotype GDCB ♂, QLD, Isla Gorge Natl Park [25°11'S 149°58'E].
  Paratype(s) UQIC 2♂, NT, Lawn Hill Natl Park, Border Waterhole, 15 km W of Musselbrook Resource Centre, 18°36'44"S 137°59'30"E, 200 m; GDCB ♂, QLD, sandstone hilltop 32 km S of Theodore, 25°10'S 150°00'E; UQIC ♀, QLD, same except Murrays Spring, 7 km W Musselbrook Resource Centre, 18°35'15"S 138°04'28"E, 200 m; UQIC 2♂ 1♀, QLD, same except Ridgepole Waterhole, 24 km ESE of Musselbrook Resource Centre, 18°40'15"S 138°22'15"E, 180 m; UQIC 3♀, QLD, Lawn Hill Natl Park, Holts Ck, 8 km NE of Musselbrook Resource Centre, 18°32'32"S 138°11'05"E, 150 m; GDCB ♀, same locality as holotype; ANIC ♂ ♀, WA, 10 mls [16 km] SW Onslow.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Antennal flagellum with large rounded base about 1.53 diameter of scape (Figs 83, 84). Short spur-vein at base of R2+3, CuA2 and A1 separate. Wing pattern similar to A. incomptus Walker except hyaline regions of wing of A. incomptus are replaced by smoky grey infuscation (Fig. 8). Black infuscation present along anterobasal half of wing from apical third of anal cell to apex of vein Sc; black infuscated spots over base of R4, r-m, m-m and dm-cu; remainder of wing with grey infuscation. Abdominal tergite 1 with black hairs and scales except anterobasal corners with erect white hairs. Tergites 2–7 with black hairs. Male genitalia similar to A. argentia, swollen basiphallus and epiphallus with long, sharp, recurved dorsal apical hook. Spermatheca of female genitalia with bulb elongate oval, neck of spermatheca turning through 180° from bulb to sperm pump.

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