Species Opaluma sapphira Lessard & Woodley, 2020

Museums

Opaluma sapphira Lessard, B.D., Yeates, D.K., and Woodley, N.E. 2020. Opaluma Lessard & Woodley, gen. nov: a new genus of iridescent soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) from Australia, including seven new species. Austral Entomology 59: 467-486 [475].
Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:FCF22F7E-C7D9-4A46-A98C-C02768757328
Type data:
Holotype ANIC 29-037431 ♂ (23 January 1960, R. Straatman), Hig(h)vale, 14 mls. N.W. of Brisbane, QLD.
Paratype(s) ANIC various ♂, same data as Holotype; QM various numerous, Lamington National Park, QLD [28.188°S 153.121°E]; QM various numerous (H. Hacker), National Park [=Lamington National Park], QLD; QM T246794 ♂ (H. Hacker), Tambourine Mountain, QLD.

New South Wales, Queensland

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	STRATIOMYIDAE Latreille, 1802	25-Mar-2021	ADDED	Dr Bryan Lessard (ABRS)