Species Thraxan caligneus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

Thraxan caligneus Holotype

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

Thraxan caligneus Holotype label

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

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thraxan caligneus 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 [1034].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T57512 ♂, QLD, Carnarvon Nat. Park, Mt Moffat Section, 1097m [25°04'S 148°03'E].
  Paratype(s) UQIC 6♂, QLD, Summit of Mt Moffat, 25°04'S 148°03'E; UQIC ♂, QLD, Mt Greville near Boonah, summit, 28°05'S 152°30'E.

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. Wing membrane divided into two regions; anterobasal half of wing with dark brown-black infuscation; posterior and apical regions of wing hyaline; line of demarcation not distinct (Fig. 16). Male genitalia with apex of epiphallus dorsally with lateral projections well developed, sharp, recurved; plate sharply tapering to blunt medial projection; lateral margins developed into wide rounded flanges projecting laterally around apical plate. Apex of epiphallus (Figs 22, 40) laterally with apical margin distinctly concave, medial projection large, sclerotised and projecting dorsally; lateral projection small, distinctly separated from medial projection. Ventral hook minute and proximally directed. Neck spine absent. Spermathecal bulb elongate pear-shaped, attached to pump by long, narrow neck, sclerotised nodules on pump absent.

History of changes