Allograpta alamacula Australian Allograpta Osten Sacken (Diptera, Syrphidae) Mengual, Ximo Thompson, F. Christian ZooKeys 2015 513 65 78 BWXJ Carver, 2003 Carver 2003 Insecta Syrphidae Allograpta CoL Animalia Allograpta alamacula Diptera 2 67 Arthropoda species alamacula  Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Syrphidae   Allograpta alamaculaCarver in Carver and Thompson 2003: 37; fig. 1 (habitus), fig. 2 (male genitalia). Type-locality: Australia, Queensland, Indooroopilly [HT male, ANIC].  Diagnosis. Face straight, with large tubercle; oral opening about 2 times as long as wide, with oral apex at level of antennal base; antennal pits confluent; plumula absent; subscutellar pile fringe absent; wing broadly bare basomedially, with apical dark macula; alula broad, as broad as cell bm; metasternum bare; abdomen elongate.  Biology. Carver reared her species from maggots preying on the whitefly species Aleurocanthus t-signatus(Maskell, 1896) ( Hemiptera, Aleyrodidae) ( Carver and Thompson 2003).  Distribution. Australia (New South Wales, Queensland); Fig. 17.  Figures 17-18. Distribution of the Australian Allograptaspecies: 17 Allograpta alamacula(pink circles) and Allograpta australensis(green inverted triangles) 18 Allograpta terraenovaesp. n. (orange triangles) and Allograpta notiale(blue circles).