A new species of 'Scaptia (Myioscaptia)' Mackerras (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) from Queensland, Australia

Seven species of the endemic genus 'Scaptia (Myioscaptia)' Mackerras were recorded from Australia by Mackerras (1960), with an additional species, 'S. (M.) inopinata' being described by Fairchild and Mackerras (1977). The subgenus has a distribution along coastal eastern Australia from Cairns/Kuranda in northern Queensland south to Jarvis Bay in southern New South Wales (Mackerras 1960: fig. 21). One species is known from southwestern Western Australia. The new species runs to couplet 2 in Mackerras' 1960 key but differs in having a non-metallic scutum and abdominal sternites. The new species significantly increases the known distribution of the subgenus approximately 600 km northwards.