Allograpta alamacula Carver, 2003

Mengual, Ximo & Thompson, F. Christian, 2015, Australian Allograpta Osten Sacken (Diptera, Syrphidae), ZooKeys 513, pp. 65-78 : 67

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.