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Genus Plecia Wiedemann, 1828

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Genus Plecia Wiedemann, 1828

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP) ; NT, Qld, WA: Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: N coastal
    • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Solomon Islands
  • Vanuatu

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
  • Philippines

Diagnosis

Differentiated from other bibionids by having the legs simple and the radial sector forked, with vein R2+3 short and extending obliquely to costa. Male genitalia complexly developed, providing excellent characters for differentiating species and for grouping into species-groups and complexes. Females with only 1 segment in cercus; the terminalia differing from those of Bibio and Dilophus by having the 8th sternum divided into 2 plates by a narrow cleft down midline.

 

ID Keys

Hardy (1982) provides a key to Plecia species and illustrations.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
30-Aug-2010 30-Aug-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)