Australian Allograpta Osten Sacken (Diptera, Syrphidae) Author Mengual, Ximo Author Thompson, F. Christian text ZooKeys 2015 513 65 78 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.513.9671 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.513.9671 1313-2970-513-65 5C7306754A3943D79363D008215CB56B Taxon classification Animalia Diptera Syrphidae Allograpta alamacula Carver, 2003 Figure 1, 17 Allograpta alamacula Carver 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 Allograpta species: 17 Allograpta alamacula (pink circles) and Allograpta australensis (green inverted triangles) 18 Allograpta terraenovae sp. n. (orange triangles) and Allograpta notiale (blue circles).