Occurrence of Anabarhynchus fuscofemoratus Lyneborg, 1992 (Diptera: Therevidae). Note

Abstract

Anabarhynchus fuscofemoratus Lyneborg 1992 was for many years known only from the male holotype collected at 'Dunedin, Portobello" in 1975. Officers from the Dunedin branch of the Department of Conservation have searched in vain for this species. On 14 and 15 December 2014, I found both males and females of A. fuscofemoratus to be relatively common inland at Smaills Beach (west of Maori Head on the ocean coast of Otago Peninsula, approached via Tomahawk Road) in dry sand, a few hundred metres inland from the fore-dune, and in dry sand near the three tracks to the beach.