A new species of Anabarhynchus (Diptera: Therevidae) from an ocean beach in south east Victoria

By

Ferguson, David Kay, 1942-
Yeates, David K.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-9-30

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

2

Pages

1--14

Subjects

beach ecology , beach flies , diversity , taxonomy , therevine

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e4016

 

Abstract

Anabarhynchus Macquart 1848 is a large genus of the Therevidae (Diptera) that are endemic to Australasia with a couple of described species from Melanesia. We describe and illustrate Anabarhynchus oceanus sp. n., a species found on ocean beaches in eastern Victoria, Australia. The species shares most characters with the monobasic A. kampmeierae species group of Lyneborg (2001), but also shares a unique feature of the male genitalia with the endemic New Zealand genus Megathereva Lyneborg, 1992. This new species brings the total number of described Australian species in the genus to 113.