Genus Antocha Osten Sacken, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

• Antocha Osten Sacken, C.R. 1860. New genera and species of North American Tipulidae with short palpi, with an attempt at a new classification of the tribe. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 11: 197-256 [219] [Antocha is used in the interest of stability and according to common usage, as suggested by Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53–116 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press; Leiden : E.J. Brill 1155 pp. (66). For contrary opinion in favour of Taphrophila see Hutson, A.M. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1969. Corrections and additions to the list of British Nematocera (Diptera) since Kloet and Hincks' A check list of the British insects (1945). Part 1: introduction and families Tipulidae, Trichoceridae and Anisopodidae (Tipuloidea). Entomologist's Gazette 20: 231–256 (239)].

  Type species:

   Antocha saxicola Osten Sacken, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Coquillett, D.W. 1910. The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(=No. 1719): 499-647.

  Secondary source:

   Hutson, A.M. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1969. Corrections and additions to the list of British Nematocera (Diptera) since Kloet and Hincks' A check list of the British insects (1945). Part 1: introduction and families Tipulidae, Trichoceridae and Anisopodidae (Tipuloidea). Entomologist's Gazette 20: 231-256; Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53-116 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp.
• Taphrophila Rondani, C. 1856. Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: I. Genera Italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. Parmae [= Parma] : A. Stoschi 226 + [2] pp. [185] [Antocha Osten Sacken accepted in favour of Taphrophila, following Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53–116 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press; Leiden : E.J. Brill 1155 pp. (66)].

  Type species:

   Limnobia inusta Meigen, 1818 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53-116 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.) 1989. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [66]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Mar-2016		30-Aug-2011	MOVED
31-Jul-2018		09-Aug-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)