Species Acupalpa divisa (Walker, 1850)

Acupalpa semiflava Holotype

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Acupalpa semiflava Holotype label

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Dimassus divisus Walker, F. 1850. Diptera. Part V. pp. 415-474 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst 474 pp. [3].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀, AUST.
• Acupalpa semiflava Mann, J.S. 1929. Revisional notes on Australian Therevidae. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 6: 17-49 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T3495 (MEI029471) adult ♀ (24.ix.1914, H. Hacker), QLD: Brisbane.
  Paratype(s) QM MEI092529, 532, 534 3 adult ♀ (24.ix.1912, 14.x.1913 & 10.x.1916, H. Hacker), QLD: Brisbane.

  Type locality references:

  Winterton, S.L. 2000. Phylogenetic revision of Acupalpa Kröber (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 31: 225-240 [232].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Irwin, M.E. & Lyneborg, L. 1989. Family Therevidae. pp. 353-358 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [354]

Generic Combinations

• Acupalpa divisa (Walker, 1850). —
  Irwin, M.E. & Lyneborg, L. 1989. Family Therevidae. pp. 353-358 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [354]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Frons profile concave above antenna; antenna black; pleuron black; wing dark banded; femora and tibia black; abdomen black, segments 1–3 yellow at least laterally; abdominal velutum present in male.

Diagnosis References

Winterton, S.L. 2011. Revision of the stiletto fly genera Acupalpa Kröber and Pipinnipons Winterton (Diptera, Therevidae, Agapophytinae) using cybertaxonomic methods, with a key to Australasian genera. ZooKeys 95: 29–78 [Date published 4 May 2011] [45] (rediagnosis)

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