Species Brachyrhopala (Pacificocesa) melaena Clements, 2000

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• Vespina melaena Clements, A.N. 2000. A revision of Brachyrhopala Macquart, an Australian region genus (Diptera: Asilidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 77-114 [Date published 28 February] [103-104].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1♂, 10 miles SW of Ayr, Qld, 6.ix.1950, E.F. Riek.
  Paratype(s) BPBM 1♂, Maningrida, Arnhem Land, NT, 17.iii.1961, J.L. & M. Gressitt; BPBM Maningrida, Arnhem Land, NT, 22.iii.1961, J.L. & M. Gressitt; AMSA 1♀, Archers Ck, Kennedy Highway, Qld, 7.iii.1973, A. Walford-Huggins; ANIC 1♂, 10 miles SW of Ayr, Qld, 6.ix.1950, E.F. Riek; QMBA 3♂♂ 3♀♀, 6 km NE road junction, Claudie River District, Qld, 27.vi.-4.vii.1982, G. Daniels & M.A. Schneider; QMBA 1♀, McIvor River crossing, 40 km N of Cooktown, Qld, 15-18.vii.1976, G.B. & S.R. Monteith; AMSA 11♀♀, 12 km N of Palmer River crossing, Qld, 26-27.xii.1984, G. & A. Daniels [16°01'S 144°49'E]; BMNH 1♀, oah forest, Kuranda, Qld, 3.xi.1972, O.W. Richards; BPBM 1♀, Black Mountain Road nr Kuranda, Qld, 6.v.1961, J.L. & M. Gressitt; AMSA 1♀, 10 miles N of Pascoe River, Qld, 12.ix.1974, A. Walford-Huggins; QMBA 1♀, Stradbroke Island, Qld, 3.xii.1912, H. Hacker; AMSA 1♂, 7 km NE of Tolga, Qld, .xi.1987, Storey & De Favori; AMSA 1♀, 24 km W of South Grafton, NSW, 28.ii.1993, R. Eastwood [29°37'S 152°44'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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