Species Bibio imitator Walker, 1835

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• Bibio imitator Walker, F. 1835. Characters of some undescribed New Holland Diptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2: 468-473 [470].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀ adults (number of syntypes not stated in original description; not found in BMNH, see Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 [817]), Australia (as New Holland).
• Bibio substituta Walker, F. 1848. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum pp. 1-229. [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia (as New Holland).
• Bibio fulvipennis Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [321] [the original description is on page 17 of the reprint edition].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂ adult, eastern coast of Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande, côte orientale).
• Bibio ruficoxis Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [321] [the original description is on page 17 of the reprint edition].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀ adult, TAS (as Tasmanie).
• Bibio elegans Jaennicke, F. 1867. Neue exotische Dipteren. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 6: 311-407, pls 43 & 44 [Date published November 1867] [317].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMF ♀ adult (type not found in the SMF according to Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 [817]), Australia.
• Bibio helioscops Schiner, I.R. 1868 [1867]. Diptera. In, Unknown (Ed.). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. 1. Abtheilung. Wien [= Vienna] : B. K. Gerold's Sohn vi + 388 pp. [Date published 30 April 1868] [20].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♂ adult (type not found in the NHMW according to Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 [817]), Sydney, NSW.
• Bibio clavatus Walker, F. 1874. Notes on Diptera and Lists of Species. 1st series. 37 pp. [17] [nom. nud., see Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 (817) (Macquart is listed by Walker as the author of this species)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855.
• Bibio nigrithorax Walker, F. 1874. Notes on Diptera and Lists of Species. 1st series. 37 pp. [17] [nom. nud., see Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 (817) (Macquart is listed by Walker as the author of this species)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855.
• Bibio serricornis Walker, F. 1874. Notes on Diptera and Lists of Species. 1st series. 37 pp. [17] [nom. nud., see Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 (817) (Macquart is listed by Walker as the author of this species)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855.
• Bibio rufiventris Walker, F. 1874. Notes on Diptera and Lists of Species. 1st series. 37 pp. [17] [nom. nud., see Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 (817) (Macquart is listed by Walker as the author of this species)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855.
• Bibio rubiventris Walker, F. 1874. Notes on Diptera and Lists of Species. 1st series. 37 pp. [17] [nom. nud., see Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805–855 (817) (Macquart is listed by Walker as the author of this species)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

  Secondary source:

   Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part IV.—The Simuliidae and Bibionidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1363-1386 (for Bibio fulvipennis Macquart, 1850, Bibio ruficoxis Macquart, 1850 and Bibio helioscops Schiner, 1868, potential synonymy of Bibio substituta Walker, 1848, potential synonymy of Bibio clavatus Macquart, Bibio nigrithorax Macquart, Bibio serricornis Macquart, Bibio rufiventris Macquart, Bibio rubiventris Macquart and Bibio elegans Jaennicke, 1867)
• Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855 [817]

 

Introduction

This is the only valid species of Bibio previously recorded from Australia. It has been described under six different names, with the males and females described as different species on two or more occasions (Hardy, D.E. 1982).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread Australia, except NT, WA, according to Hardy (1982: 817)

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

General References

Froggatt, W.W. 1921. A garden fly maggot. (Bibio imitator, Walker). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales Misc. Pub. 2: 338, 362-363 [362]

Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855

Hardy, D.E. 1989. Superfamily Bibionoidea. 5. Family Bibionidae. pp. 122-124 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. [122] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Bibio substituta Walker, 1848 as Bibio substita Walker, 1848)

Skuse, F.A.A. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part IV.—The Simuliidae and Bibionidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1363-1386 [1368, 1370, 1371]

Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Nematocera.—Supplement II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(3): 595-640, Pl. XIX [633] (synonymy of Bibio elegans Jaennicke, 1867)

 

History of changes

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