Genus Anzomyia Lessard, 2012

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• Anzomyia Lessard, B.D. in Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2012. Anzomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae: Scionini): a new genus of Australian and New Zealand horse fly, including the description of three new species. Insect Systematics and Evolution 43: 101-116 [104].

  Type species:

   Scaptia (Pseudoscione) anomala Mackerras, 1960 by original designation.

Introduction

Small (length 6–10 mm), hairy and rather concolorous dark species, with a diverging frons, proboscis usually short and thick, and subcylindrical palpi. Occurring in high-altitude mountainous regions in Australia and New Zealand, including the Great Dividing Range in southeast Australia and along the Southwest Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand (Lessard 2014). A valid key to all four known species was provided by Lessard & Yeates (2012).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

General References

Lessard, B.D. 2014. Revision of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae). Austral Entomology [printed version: Austral Entomology (2014) 53, 203–239]

Lessard, B.D., Cameron, S.L., Bayless, K.M., Wiegmann, B.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2013. The evolution and biogeography of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) inferred from multiple mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 516-540

Lessard, B.D. in Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2012. Anzomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae: Scionini): a new genus of Australian and New Zealand horse fly, including the description of three new species. Insect Systematics and Evolution 43: 101-116

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