Genus Coboldia Melander, 1916

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Regional Maps

• Coboldia Melander, A.L. 1916. The dipterous family Scatopsidae. Bulletin of the Washington State Agriculture Experimental Station 130: 1-21 [17].

  Type species:

   Colboldia formicarum Melander, 1916 by original designation (= Scatopse fuscipes Meigen, 1830).

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

SCATOPSIDAE: Coboldia atrata (Say, 1824) — Cook, E.F. 1956. A contribution toward a monograph of the Scatopsidae (Diptera). Part VI. The genera Scatopse Geoffroy and Holoplagia Enderlein. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49: 593-611

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Distribution References

General References

Cook, E.F. 1956. A contribution toward a monograph of the Scatopsidae (Diptera). Part VI. The genera Scatopse Geoffroy and Holoplagia Enderlein. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 49: 593-611 [594] (synonymy with Scatopse Geoffroy, 1962)

Cook, E.F. 1974. A Synopsis of the Scatopsidae of the Palaearctic Part III. The Scatopsini. Journal of Natural History 8: 61-100 [70] (resurrection from synonymy to accommodate Scatopse fuscipes Meigen, 1830)

Freeman, P. & Lane, R.P. 1985. Bibionid and scatopsid flies. Diptera: Bibionidae and Scatopsidae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 9(7): 1-74 [36] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	NEMATOCERA Dumeril, 1805	10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson (AM)
10-Nov-2020	BIBIONOMORPHA Hennig, 1954	24-Sep-2020	MODIFIED
01-Feb-2019	DIPTERA Linnaeus, 1758	10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
02-May-2011		10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED