Species Thraxan planus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

Thraxan planus Holotype

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Thraxan planus Holotype label

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

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Regional Maps

• Thraxan planus 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 [1057].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T57522 ♂, QLD, Murrays Spring, 7 km W Musselbrook Resource Centre, Lawn Hill Natl Pk, 200 m [18°35'15"S 138°04'28"E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ (ex ethanol), NT, Blue Paintings Site, Kakadu Natl Pk; ANIC ♂, NT, 5 km NNW Cahills Crossing, E Alligator River; ANIC ♂, NT, 10 km NE of Alice Springs, 23°37'S 133°54'E; GDCB ♂, QLD, Archer River crossing, 13°25'S 142°56'E; UQIC ♂, QLD, Mount Marlay, near Stanthorpe; QM T57668 ♂, QLD, Mt Moffat Natl Park, Marlong Arch, 820 m [24°59'28"S 147°53'48"E]; UQIC ♂, Mt Tozer, Claudie River district, 12°45'S 143°12'E; WAM 726, 96/376 ♂, WA, 11 km NE Halls Creek, 18°13'S 127°39'E; WAM 96/385 ♂, WA, Moola Bulla Station, Halls Creek; GDCB ♂, 12 km N Palmer River, 16°01'S 144°48'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), Burt Plain (BRT), 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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), 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. 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. Apex of epiphallus (Figs 29, 47) dorsally with lateral projections absent; plate distinctive, medial projection broad, terminating squarely, basal margin concave. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial projection large and blunt. Neck spine absent.

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