Genus Brachydeutera Loew, 1862

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• Brachydeutera Loew, H. 1862. Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part I. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6(1)[= No. 141]: xxiv + 221 [162].

  Type species:

   Brachydeutera dimidiata Loew, 1862 (= Notiphila argentata Walker, 1853) by monotypy.

Introduction

Moved to Hyadinini from Dagini following Zatwarnicki (2023), see also Zhang et al. (2005)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; NT, Qld: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK) ; Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Zatwarnicki, T. 2023. Major lineages of shore flies (Diptera: Ephydridae) and the resultant subfamilial classification. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 73(4): 659-682

Zhang, J., Yang, D. & Mathis, W.N. 2005. A new genus and species of Ephydridae (Diptera) from the Oriental Region. Zootaxa 1040: 31-43 [32]

History of changes