Genus Apotropina Hendel, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ectropa Schiner, I.R. 1868 [1867]. Diptera. In, Unknown (Ed.). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. 1. Abtheilung. Wien [= Vienna] : B. K. Gerold's Sohn vi + 388 pp. [Date published 30 April 1868] [242] [preoccupied Wallengen, 1863].

  Type species:

   Ectropa viduata Schiner, 1868 by original designation.
• Apotropina Hendel, F. 1907. Nomina nova für mehrere Gattungen der acalyptraten Musciden. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 26: 98 [Date published 31 March] [98] [replacement name; for Ectropa].
• Lasiopleura Becker, T. 1910. Chloropidae. Eine monographische Studie. I. Teil. Paläarktische Region. Archivum Zoologicum (Budapest) 1: 33-174 [Date published 15 March] [130].

  Type species:

   Oscinis longepilosa Strobl, 1893 by monotypy.
• Parahippelates Becker, T. 1911. Chloropidae. Eine monographische Studie. III. Teil. Die indo-australische Region. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 9: 35-170 [Date published 26 June] [109].

  Type species:

   Oscinis pulchrifrons De Meijere, 1906 by original designation.
• Emmalochaeta Becker, T. 1916. Neue Chloropiden aus dem Ungarischen National Museum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 14: 423-453 [Date published 30 December] [444].

  Type species:

   Emmalochaeta gigantea Becker, 1916 by original designation.
• Ephydroscinis Malloch, J.R. 1924. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 329-338 [24 October] [331].

  Type species:

   Ephydroscinis australis Malloch, 1924 by original designation.
• Terraereginia Malloch, J.R. 1928. Notes on Australian Diptera, No. XIV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 53: 295-309 [16 July] [301, 303] (as subgenus of Parahippelates).

  Type species:

   Parahippelates dasypleura Malloch, 1928 by monotypy.
• Hopkinsella Malloch, J.R. 1930. Lonchaeidae, Chloropidae, Piophilidae. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 6: 239-251 [Date published 22 November] [244].

  Type species:

   Hopkinsella purpurascens Malloch, 1930 by original designation.
• Neoborborus Rayment, T. 1931. The furrow-bees and a fly. Victorian Naturalist 47: 184-191 [Date published 31/12/1931] [189].

  Type species:

   Neoborborus speculabundus Rayment, 1931 by monotypy.
• Liomochaeta Duda, O. 1934. Weitere neue und wenig bekannte orientalische und australische Chloropiden (Diptera) des Deutschen Entomologischen Instituts in Berlin-Dahlem. Arbeiten über Morphologische und Taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 1: 39-60 [Date published 5 March] [42].

  Type species:

   Oscinis dimorpha Osten Sacken, 1882 by original designation.
• Oscinelloides Malloch, J.R. 1940. Notes on Australian Diptera. XXXVIII. Family Chloropidae, part ii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65(3-4): 261-288 [Date published 16 September] [267].

  Type species:

   Oscinella bispinosa Becker, 1911 by original designation.
• Protohippelates Andersson, H. 1977. Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies on Chloropidae (Diptera) with special reference to Old World genera. Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 8: 200 pp. [Date published 6 April] [50].

  Type species:

   Parahippelates brunnipennis De Meijere, 1913 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sabrosky, C.W. 1980. Unexpected synonymy in Chloropidae, from the family Ephydridae (Diptera). Australian Entomological Magazine 6(6): 101-102 (synonymy of Lasiopleura and Parahippelates with Apotropina)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Terraeregina [error for Terraereginia].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), New England Tablelands (NET) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW, SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW) ; NSW, Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Vic: Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP) ; WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)

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