Species Thraxan misatulus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

Thraxan misatulus Holotype

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

Thraxan misatulus Holotype label

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

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thraxan misatulus 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 [1049].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T57521 ♂ (in copula), WA, Kellys Knob, Kununurra.
  Paratype(s) UQIC ♀, WA, Kellys Knob, Kununurra; UQIC 2♂, NSW, 24 km W Grafton, hilltop Gwydir Hwy, 29°37'S 152°44'; UQIC 6♂ (hill-topping), QLD, Mt Cootha, Brisbane; UQIC ♂, QLD, 16 km N Boonah, 27°54'S 152°41'E; QM T57525 ♂ (17.ix.1994, C.J. Burwell), QLD, 16 km N of Boonah [27°54'S, 152°41'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Similar to T. simulatus except in the following respects. Apex of epiphallus (Figs 32, 50) dorsally with lateral projections small, blunt; plate tapering to blunt, convex, medial projection; dorsal band convex. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial and lateral projections.

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