Species Thraxan luteus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

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• Thraxan luteus 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 [1047].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂, NT, Darwin.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀, WA, Wyndham Kimberley Research Station; WADA ♂, WA, Wyndham; WADA 19766 ♀, WA, Kununurra; NMV ♂, NT, Providence Hill, 14°24'S 129°32'E; ANIC 2♂, NT, Oberie [Ubirr] Rock; ANIC 2♀, NT, Darwin; ANIC 2♂, NT, 7 km NNW Cahills X-ing, E Alligator River.

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), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Similar to T. simulatus except in the following respects. Haltere knob dark brown at base grading to light brown at apex. Wing membrane in male hyaline except pale orange-brown in costal and subcostal cells and basally, gradually fading into apical hyaline areas; female wing darker, with pale orange-brown infuscation anterobasally from apex of cell bm to apex of R1, fading gradually in more apical portions of wing. Abdominal tergite 2 with black tomentum and hairs except golden tomentum and hairs in anterolateral corners and median patch of golden tomentum on posterior margin; tergite 3 with black hairs and tomentum except golden hairs on lateral margins. Tergites 4–7 with black tomentum on median quarter, remainder with golden tomentum. Male genitalia with apex of epiphallus (Figs 168, 169) with lateral projections small, blunt; medial projection blunt. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial projection large and recurved, projecting dorsally; lateral projections small. Neck spine absent.

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