Genus Acracantha Skuse, 1890

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• Acracantha Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Part VIII.—The Tipulidae longipalpi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 53-139, Pls. IV-VI [109].

  Type species:

   Aracantha sydneyensis Skuse, 1890 by subsequent designation, see Alexander, C.P. 1920. New or little-known crane-flies in the Queensland Museum (Tipulidae, Diptera). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7: 52-63 [53].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

De Jong, H. 1987. Some remarks on the New Zealand crane-fly taxon Austrotipula Alexander, 1920 (Diptera, Tipulidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 95-98 [95] (taxonomy)

Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1972. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. VI. The genus Acracantha Skuse. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 16: 1-9 [1]

Edwards, F.W. 1923. A preliminary revision of the crane-flies of New Zealand (Anisopodidae, Tanyderidae, Tipulidae). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 54: 265-352 (taxonomy)

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