Species Thraxan acutus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

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• Thraxan acutus 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 [1031].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, QLD, Rosedale, NW of Bundaberg.
  Paratype(s) UQIC ♂ ♀ (in cop.), QLD, Mount Marlay, near Stanthorpe; UQIC ♂, QLD, Kroombit Tops, 45 km SSW Calliope; ANIC ♂, QLD, Bin Bin Range, via Didcot, W Biggenden.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Similar to T. simulatus except in the following respects. Haltere knob dark brown with apical third cream. Male genitalia with apex of epiphallus (Figs 30, 48) dorsally with lateral projections large, distinctive, rounded lobes; medial projection convex, terminating squarely, dorsal band linear. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial projection large, sclerotised; lateral projection small. Ventral hook minute, not visible dorsally. Neck spine large, well developed, recurved.

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