The Genus Pseudopomyza (Diptera: Nerioidea) in Tasmania, with Description of a New Species
Author
Mcalpine, David K.
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Records of the Australian Museum
2019
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journal article
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10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1674
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Genus
Pseudopomyza
Strobl
Pseudopomyza
Strobl 1883: 284
.
Type
species (monotypy):
P. nitidissima
Strobl
(=
Opomyza atrimana
Meigen
).
I have seen three Australian species of this genus belonging in the subgenera
Apops
McAlpine and
Dete
McAlpine as distinguished by
McAlpine (1994)
. Of these, one species is known only from a single female specimen from
Western Australia
which is here considered as inadequate material for taxonomic description. It is provisionally identified as
Pseudopomyza (Apops)
sp. C, deposited at ANIC.
The three known Australian species have the following characters in common: two pairs of fronto-orbital bristles present; four pairs of dorsocentral bristles present; anterior intra-alar bristle absent.