Genus Atherigona Rondani, 1856

Museums

Regional Maps

• Atherigona 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. [97].

  Type species:

   Anthomyia varia Meigen, 1826 by original designation.
• Orthostylum Macquart, J. 1851. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4.e supplément publié dans les mémoires de 1849. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1850: 134-294 [245(272)] [application is being made to I.C.Z.N. for suppression of this name].

  Type species:

   Orthostylum rufipes Macquart, 1851 by original designation.
• Acritochaeta Grimshaw, P.H. 1901. Diptera. Fauna Hawaiiensis 3: 1-77 [30 December] [41].

  Type species:

   Acritochaeta pulvinata Grimshaw, 1901 by monotypy.

Introduction

Formerly as subfamily Cytoneurininae, now recognised as belonging to Atherigoninae based on the molecular evidence provided by Grzywacz et al. (2021).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Grzywacz, A., Trzeciak, P., Wiegmann,B.M., Cassel, B.K., Pape, T., Walczak, K., Bystrowski, C., Nelson, L., & Piwczyński, M. 2021. Towards a new classification of Muscidae (Diptera): a comparison of hypotheses based on multiple molecular phylogenetic approaches. Systematic Entomology 46: 508-525 [520]

History of changes