Tachyphron trispinosus Brown, 1995

Brown, G. R., 2005, A revision of Tachyphron Brown and description of two new genera within the Ariphron group (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae), Journal of Natural History 39 (2), pp. 197-239 : 236

Tachyphron trispinosus Brown, 1995

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Tachyphron trispinosus Brown, 1995b: 246 .

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: „. Australia: Northern Territory: 12.35 ° S, 131.05 ° E, Humpty Doo , ex Malaise trap, 7 May to 23 June 1992, Wells and Webber, in NTM. PARATYPE: 1 „, same data as holotype, in NTM.

Distribution. Known only from Humpty Doo near Darwin, Northern Territory ( Figure 60 ).

Diagnosis. Male: apical margin of the clypeus shallowly and narrowly emarginate medially (see Brown, 1995b: Figure 9 ). Aedeagus straight and lanceolate without lobes (see Brown, 1995b: Figures 17, 18 ). Parameres narrowly subtriangular with the ventral margin straight and the dorsal margin oblique over most of their length (see Brown, 1995b: Figures 17, 18 ). Hypopygium with apical spine narrowly subparallel (see Brown, 1995b: Figure 4 ). Gena less than half length of minimum eye diameter.

Figures

Figure 60. Distribution of Tachyphron spp. (rarer species).

Figures 5–12. Deuterothynnus spp., male genitalia, lateral and dorsal views. (5, 6) D. parallelus. (7, 8) D. insularis. (9, 10) D. fulvisetatus. (11, 12) D. fulvicentratus. a, Aedeagus; b, right basiparameres; c right cuspis; p, right parameres; r, basal ring. Scale bars: 0.25 mm.

Figures 17–24. Heligmothynnus spp., male genitalia, lateral and dorsal views. (17, 18) H. microspinus. (19, 20) H. atratus. (21, 22) H. neoaratus. (23, 24) H. sabronensis (note: basal ring not shown). Scale bar: 0.25 mm.

Figures 1–4. Tachyphron spp. and Heligmothynnus sabronensis. (1) T. subtriangularus, male gena. (2) T. aculeatus, male habitus. (3) H. sabronensis, male gena. (4) T. subtriangularus, female habitus. Scale bars: 1 mm.