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Banksia Island is a small island in the Montebello Islands, off the north-west coast of Western Australia. It is located at 20°24′S 115°30′E / 20.4°S 115.5°E / -20.4; 115.5 (Banksia Island). It is thought to be the "Banks Island" upon which the dipterist John Russell Malloch collected the type specimen for Lamprogaster indistincta, a species of signal fly, in 1928.

References

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

1. "Map - Banksia Island - MAP[N]ALL.COM". mapnall.com. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

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