(Figs 9, 41–42)

Type material: Holotype  Australia, Queensland, Mt. Tambourine, 5.iii.1997, leg. Wachtel (CSCÜ).

Description: Length 2.1 mm. Body shiny, yellowish-red, head and posterior half of elytra reddish-brown, fourth free abdominal tergite of the male brown, antennae brown with the two basal antennomeres yellow, legs yellow. Eyes as long as the postocular region in dorsal view. Second antennomere shorter than the first one, third shorter than the second one, fourth to tenth transverse. Body devoid of reticulation. Head dotting close and superficial, that of pronotum and elytra close and evident. Granulation of the abdomen close and salient. Tergites with basal transverse sulci.Aedeagus as in Figs 41–42.

Comparative notes: The new species differs from A. fieldimontis PACE, 2005 from Tasmania in the aedeagus shape, which is feebly curved to the ventral side, while it is strongly curved in fieldimontis, in its very long “crista proximalis”, whereas it is short in fieldimontis and in the apex of the aedeagus, in ventral view, being broad and not narrow as in fieldimontis. Pronotum is yellowish-red in the new species, reddish-brown in fieldimontis.

Etymology: The new species is dedicated to its collector Wachtel.