Species Coboldia fuscipes (Meigen, 1830)
- Scatopse fuscipes Meigen, J.W. 1830. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Sechster Theil. Schulz, Hamm. xi + 401 + [3] pp. [31 December; preface dated 16 August 1830] [314].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown. - Scatopse fenestralis Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part IV.—The Simuliidae and Bibionidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1363-1386 [1384].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ ♀ adults, generally distributed in NSW. - Reichertella acuticornis Enderlein, G. 1926. Zur Kenntnis der Scatopsiden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 68: 137-142 [139].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNH 2♀ adults, Mount Victoria, NSW (as Süd-Wales and Victoria-Berg).
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Cook, E.F. 1974. A Synopsis of the Scatopsidae of the Palaearctic Part III. The Scatopsini. Journal of Natural History 8: 61-100 [70]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Norfolk Island
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
- Victoria
- Western Australia: SW coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Larva is anthropophilic, feeding in a wide variety of decaying plant and animal material.
General References
Cook, E.F. 1956. A contribution toward a monograph of the Scatopsidae (Diptera). Part VI. The genera Scatopse Geoffroy and Holoplagia Enderlein. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49: 593-611 [608] (taxonomy, synonymy of Scatopse fenestralis Skuse, 1889 and Reichertella acuticornis Enderlein, 1926 and extralimital synonymy)
Cook, E.F. 1971. The Australian Scatopsidae. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 8: 1-90 [Date published 15/11/1971] [7] (nov. comb. as Reichertella fuscipes (Meigen, 1830))
Freeman, P. & Lane, R.P. 1985. Bibionid and scatopsid flies. Diptera: Bibionidae and Scatopsidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9(7): 1-74 [36] (taxonomy)
Haenni, J.-P. & Vaillant, F. 1994. Description of dendrolimnobiontic larvae of Scatopsidae (Diptera) with a review of our knowledge of the preimaginal stages of the family. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft / Bulletin of the Société Entomologique Suisse 67: 43-59 [43] (larval biology, annotated bibliography)
Hardy, D.E. 1957. Diptera: Bibionidae and Scatopsidae. Insects of Micronesia 12: 87-102 [99] (taxonomy)
History of changes
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| 02-May-2011 | 02-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |