Species Thraxan cinctus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

Thraxan cinctus Holotype

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

Thraxan cinctus Holotype label

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

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thraxan cinctus 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 [1037].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T57515 ♂, QLD, Mt Tinbeerwah nr Cooroy [26°24'S 152°58'E].
  Paratype(s) QM T57523-4 ♂ ♀ (in cop.), QLD, Mt Moffat Natl Park, Park Headquarters, 25°01'S 147°47'E, 740m; UQIC 2♂ (hill-topping), QLD, Mt Cootha, Brisbane; UQIC ♂, NSW, 24 km W Grafton, hilltop Gwydir Hwy, 29°37'S 152°44'E.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Similar to T. simulatus except in the following respects. Tergites 2 and 3 with black hairs and tomentum except posterior margin of tergite 2 with transverse band of white scales and median quarter of posterior margin of tergite 3 with tuft of white scales (Fig. 63). Male genitalia with apex of epiphallus (Figs 27, 45) dorsally with lateral projections absent, medial projection blunt, basal margin convex. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial projection large and blunt; lateral projection absent, sclerotised portion subtriangular. Neck spine absent.

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