Species Anabarhynchus rossi Lyneborg, 2001

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• Anabarhynchus rossi Lyneborg, L. 2001. The Australian Stiletto-flies of the Anabarhynchus Genus-group (Diptera: Therevidae). Leiden : Entomonograph, E.J.Brill Vol. 13 256 pp. [160].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC MEI130276 adult ♂ (550m, 1.xii.1962, E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro), NSW: nr Comboyne [31.608°S, 152.471°E].
  Paratype(s) FSCA MEI126620 adult ♀ (16.xi.1972, hand netted, G.B. Fairchild), QLD: Thunderbird Park, Mount Tamborine [27.966°S, 153.199°E]; FSCA MEI127641, MEI127654 1 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (Oct 1977, malaise trap, Sankowsky), QLD: Mount Tamborine [27.917°S, 153.15°E]; ANIC MEI129079 adult ♀ (550m, 1.xii.1962, E.S. Ross, D.Q. Cavagnaro), NSW: nr Comboyne [31.608°S, 152.471°E]; ANIC MEI129077-8, MEI129080 3 adult ♂, 1 adult ♀ (60m, 2.xii.1962 {1 specimen in ZMUC}), NSW: nr Catherine Hill Bay [33.163°S, 151.624°E]; UQIC MEI129833 adult ♂ (17-20.xii.1963, A. Macqueen), NSW: Barrington House via Salisbury [31.9°S, 150.833°E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Diagnosis

Medium-sized species. Prosternal furrow and sternopleuron without pile. Fore and middle femora with pd and pv macrosetae. Middle and hind femora grey-black with apical fourth to third yellow-brown. Mesonotum grey-brown, indistinctly striped. Lower frons raised, with rich pile. Frons about 3x width of anterior ocellus in front of this. Haltere blackish.

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