Banksia Island

Banksia Island is a small island in the Montebello Islands, off the north-west coast of Western Australia.^[1] It is located at

20°24′S 115°30′E / 20.400°S 115.500°E / -20.400; 115.500Coordinates: 20°24′S 115°30′E / 20.400°S 115.500°E / -20.400; 115.500. It is thought^{[by whom?]} to be the "Banks Island" upon which the dipterist John Russell Malloch collected the type specimen for , a species of signal fly, in 1928.

References[]

• Banksia Island in the Gazetteer of Australia
• Lamprogaster indistincta Malloch, 1928 in the Australian Faunal Directory