Genus Batrachomyia Krefft, 1864

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• Batrachomyia Krefft, G. 1864. Notes on the metamorphosis of a dipterous insect of the genus Batrachomyia, (Macleay) the larva of which is parasitical upon various species of Australian frogs. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 100-101 [Date published 31 December+] [100].

  Type species:

   Batrachomyia nigritarsis Skuse, 1889 by subsequent designation, see Malloch, J.R. 1931. Notes on Australian Diptera. XXVII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 56(2): 60-78 [Date published 15 May] [74].
• Batrachomyia Skuse, 1889 [preoccupied Krefft, 1864].

  Type species:

   Batrachomyia nigritarsis Skuse, 1889 by subsequent designation, see Malloch, J.R. 1931. Notes on Australian Diptera. XXVII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 56(2): 60-78 [Date published 15 May] [74].

Distribution

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New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC) ; NSW, Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) ; NSW, Tas, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)

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