Genus Australophyra Malloch, 1923

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• Australophyra Malloch, J.R. 1923. Exotic Muscaridae (Diptera).—IX. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 664-675 [667].

  Type species:

   Ophyra analis Macquart, 1846 (=Peronia rostrata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830) by original designation.
• Peronia Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. 1830. Essai sur les myodaires. Mémoires Présentés par Divers Savant a l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France 2(2): 1-813 [517] [preoccupied Fleming, 1822].

  Type species:

   Peronia rostrata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 by monotypy.
• Neoperonia Miller, D.W. 1945. Generic name changes in Diptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 14: 72 [72] [nom. nov. for Peronia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830].

Introduction

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

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