Species Lissimas australis (Ricardo, 1915)

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• Acanthocera australis Ricardo, G. 1915. Notes on the Tabanidae of the Australian Region [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 16(8): 16-40 [16] [as '?Acanthocera'].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH ♀, QLD, Kuranda.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mackerras, I.M., Spratt, D.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2008. Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia. Zootaxa 1886: 1-80 [Date published 26 Sept 2008] [10]

Generic Combinations

• Paracanthocera australis (Ricardo, 1915) [subsequent more detailed study of the New Guinea and island species (Mackerras 1964: 101–104) has shown that allocation of australis to Paracanthocera was not justified]. —
  Enderlein, G. 1923. Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Tabanidengenera. (Dipt.). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 1923: 544-545 [545]
  Mackerras, I.M., Spratt, D.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2008. Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia. Zootaxa 1886: 1-80 [Date published 26 Sept 2008] [18]
• Udenocera australis (Ricardo, 1915). —
  Taylor, F.H. 1926. Notes on Australian Tabanidae (Diptera). Bulletin of Entomological Research 17: 193-195 [193]
• Lissimas australis (Ricardo, 1915). —
  Mackerras, I.M. 1964. The Tabanidae (Diptera) of New Guinea. Pacific Insects 6: 69-210 [103]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Mackerras, I.M., Spratt, D.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2008. Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia. Zootaxa 1886: 1-80 [Date published 26 Sept 2008] [10] (Subsequent more detailed study of the New Guinea and island species (Mackerras 1964: 101–104) has shown that allocation of australis to Paracanthocera was not justified)

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