Species Thraxan depressus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

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• Thraxan depressus 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 [1041].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K257310 ♂, NSW, Weddin Mtns Natl Pk [33° 59' S 148° E].
  Paratype(s) QDPI ♂, QLD, Westwood; UQIC ♂, QLD, Moggill near Brisbane; QDPI ♂, QLD, Gogango.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Extra Ecological Information

One adult recorded as emerging from Sceliphron laetum (Sphecidae) near Binnaway, NSW, and the species was bred, in 1904, from a box containing mud nests and some caterpillar nests from Burpengary, south-east Qld.

Diagnosis

Similar to T. simulatus except in the following respects. Apex of epiphallus (Figs 28, 46) with lateral projections absent; plate tapering smoothly to poorly sclerotised blunt medial projection. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial projection small and blunt. Ventral hook large, folded. Neck spine minute. Gonostyli (Fig. 28) with shallowly excavated dorsal surface; apical flange projecting dorsally.

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