Two new species of crane fly (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Tasmania, Australia Author Billingham, Zacariah D. 0000-0002-6163-9073 Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia. zac.billingham@ghd.com Author Theischinger, Gunther 0000-0002-5207-2626 Australian Museum, Entomology, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. & theischingergunther @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5207 - 2626 theischingergunther@gmail.com Author Levesque-Beaudin, Valerie 0000-0002-6053-0949 Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, N 1 G 2 W 1, Canada. & valerie @ uoguelph. ca; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6053 - 0949 valerie@uoguelph.ca text Zootaxa 2023 2023-03-16 5256 1 77 83 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.5 1175-5326 Genus Molophilus Curtis, 1833 Type species: Molophilus brevipennis Curtis, 1833 , by original designation. Diagnosis. Rostrum short, little developed; meron between mesocoxa and metacoxa extensive, seen from lateral aspect larger than mesocoxa; setae of legs simple; R l longer than 2/3 wing length; Rs ending in cell r 3 ; R 2+3 and R 4+5 distinct; R 5 not fused with M 1+2 ; r-m present; CuA 2 and A l not fused distally; a 2 long and wide (modified from Theischinger 1992 ). The genus Molophilus includes over 1,000 species, present on all continents except Antarctica . Their diversity is greatest in the Australasian region, with 464 species occurring across Australia , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea and West Papua ( Oosterbroek 2023 ). Australia boasts more species of Molophilus than any other country or continent with 325 species recorded, including the species newly described here. Except for a single species, M. ( Molophilus ) flavonotatus Skuse, 1890 , which is also known from New Zealand , the Australian species of Molophilus are all endemic. Theischinger (1992) undertook a comprehensive review of the Australian Molophilus , describing many new species and providing a key to the subgenera and species groups. Following Theischinger’s review additional new species have been described over numerous works ( Billingham & Theischinger 2018a , 2018b , 2019a , 2019b ; Theischinger 1994 , 1996a , 1999 , 2000 , 2012 , 2017). Molophilus is readily distinguished from other Australian Limoniid genera using the key provided in Theischinger (1996b) .