Genus Colonomyia Colless, 1963

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• Colonomyia Colless, D.H. 1963. New species of Ohakunea Edwards and a related new genus with notes on the relationships of Heterotricha Loew (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 303-308 [305].

  Type species:

   Colonomyia albicaulis Colless, 1963 by original designation.

Introduction

Bugledich E.-M.A. (1999) returned this genus to Family Sciaridae pending further phylogenetic analysis. Colonomyia Colless, 1963 had previously been catalogued as an unplaced genus of Sciarioidea (Evenhuis, N.L. ed. 1989). A re-evaluation of the genus Colonomyia Colless by Hippa and Mathias (2004) retained the genus in Sciaroidea, but did not nominate a family. Colonomyia is retained in family Sciaridae until its taxonomic position is clarified.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Bugledich, E.-M.A. 1999. Diptera: Nematocera. In, Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 30.1. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xiii 627 pp.

Evenhuis, N.L. 1989. Family Sciadoceridae. p. 432 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.

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