Tasmanian Phoridae (Diptera) and some additional Australasian species Author DISNEY, R. H. L. text Journal of Natural History 2003 2003-03-31 37 5 505 639 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110096564 journal article 10.1080/00222930110096564 1464-5262 5273495 Megaselia tasmaniensis (Malloch, 1912) (figure 45A) Aphiochaeta tasmaniensis Malloch, 1912: 514 . This species was described from a large series of both sexes from Tasmania . A male cotype in the Museum Koenig (Bonn), labelled ‘ Australia , Tasmania , Arthur M. Lee collector, 14907 USNM’, has been remounted on a slide. A male and female cotypes from the United States National Museum have also been remounted on slides. They are labelled the same as the Bonn specimen.