Species Anthrax proconcisus Hardy, 1942

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• Anthrax proconcisa Hardy, G.H. 1942. Miscellaneous Notes on Australian Diptera IX. Superfamily Asiloidea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67: 197- 204 [Date published 15 September 1942] [203] [nom. nov. for Anthrax concisa Hardy, 1942].
• Anthrax concisa Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [415] [junior homonym of Anthrax concisa Macquart, 1840].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ('1080/2 47/Anthrax concisa Macq n. sp. n. holl.'), locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Larva: parasitic.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult has emerged from the mud wasp nests of Odynerus (Eumenidae).

Diagnosis

Eyes separated by 23 width of ocellar triangle in male and female. Frons with short black hairs and tomentum. Antennal pedicel globular, as wide as long, junction between pedicel and flagellum loose, flagellum base round, gradually tapering toward apex, ventral flange extending around pedicel absent. Cervical collar with white, black and brown hairs admixed; scutum with black hairs and brown tomentum. Haltere knob yellow with small brown area basally. Integumental colour of coxae and femora dark brown; integumental colour of tibiae and tarsi light brown. Wing venation with spur-vein at base R2+3 absent, spur-vein into cell r2+3 absent, spur-vein at base R4 absent, branch on R4 absent, spur-vein on dm-cu absent, CuA2 and A1 fused before wing margin. Wing pattern with dark brown-black anterobasal region of wing and hyaline apical and posterior regions (Fig. 9). Division between two regions distinct and running from apex of cell a1 to apex of Sc with distal extension along CuA1 and rounded extension into cell r5 between base of R4 and apex of dm-cu. Abdominal tergite 1 with erect white hairs; remaining tergites with black hairs and dense black scales; lateral patches of light brown scales on tergites 2–5; in males tergites 6 and 7 with long silver overlapping scales, interrupted medially only on tergite 6. Male genitalia (Figs 104, 105) with swollen basiphallus and epiphallus with single, small dorsal apical hook, ventral apical flange sharp in lateral view forming lateral flange at apex of phallus in dorsal view; gonostyli elongate and triangular in dorsal view with small, dorsally directed apical hook in lateral view. Female genitalia (Fig. 106) with short, broad sperm pump; well-developed proximal end-plate; spermathecal bulb narrow, elongate cylinder. Furca with narrow longitudinal rod and broad lateral lobe; median plate small.

General References

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 [1007] (review)

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