Species Thraxan spiculus Yeates & Lambkin, 1998

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• Thraxan spiculus 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 [1059].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K257320 ♂, QLD, 16 km N Boonah [27°54'S 152°41'E].
  Paratype(s) GDCB 3♂ (eucalypt woodlands), QLD, McIlwraith Range, 8 km NE Coen, 13°53'30"S 143°15'21", 540 m; UQIC 2♂, QLD, Mt Greville near Boonah, summit, 28°05'S 152°30'E.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Diagnosis

Similar to T. simulatus except in the following respects. Apex of epiphallus (Figs 25, 43) dorsally a broad subtriangular plate, lateral projections large, rounded and blunt; plate tapering to distinctive, convex, medial sclerotised area with small, blunt lateral and medial projections, apical margin and dorsal band deeply concave. Apex of epiphallus laterally with medial and lateral projections large and recurved, projecting dorsally. Ventral hook absent. Neck spine very large, sclerotised and recurved, deeply excavated on lateral surface.

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