Genus Comptosia Macquart, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Comptosia Macquart, J. 1840. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxième. – 1er partie. Paris : Roret pp. 5-135. [80].

  Type species:

   Comptosia fascipennis Macquart, 1840 by monotypy.
• Neuria Newman, E. 1841. Entomological notes [part]. The Entomologist 1: 220-223 [220].

  Type species:

   Neuria lateralis Newman, 1841 (preoccupied, replaced by Anthrax insignis Walker, 1849 by subsequent designation by Hardy, 1921: 54) by original designation.
• Alyosia Rondani, C. 1863. Diptera exotica revisa et annotata. Novis nonnullis descriptis. E. Soliani, Modena. 99 pp. [Date published 31 December+] [54].

  Type species:

   Comptosia maculipennis Macquart, 1840 (= Neuria ocellata Newman, 1841) by subsequent designation, see Becker, T. 1913. Genera Bombyliidarum. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskago Muzeya 17: 421-502 [Date published March] [465].
• Epidosia Hull, F.M. 1973. Bee Flies of the World. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 286: 1-687 [306] [Comptosia subg.].

  Type species:

   Comptosia vittata Edwards, 1934 by original designation.
• Opsonia Hull, F.M. 1973. Bee Flies of the World. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 286: 1-687 [306] [Comptosia subg.].

  Type species:

   Comptosia fenestrata Hull, 1973 (= Anthrax cognata Walker, 1852) by monotypy.
• Anthocolon Hull, F.M. 1973. Bee Flies of the World. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 286: 1-687 [307] [Comptosia subg.].

  Type species:

   Comptosia casimira Hull, 1973 by monotypy.
• Paradosia Hull, F.M. 1973. Bee Flies of the World. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 286: 1-687 [306] [Comptosia subg.].

  Type species:

   Comptosia duofasciata Hull, 1973 (=Anthrax tendens Walker, 1849) by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: South East Corner (SEC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, WA: Sydney Basin (SB) ; ACT, SA, WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; NSW, SA, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF) ; NSW, Tas, Vic: Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM) ; NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC) ; NT, WA: Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB) ; SA, Vic, WA: Kanmantoo (KAN) ; SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Mallee (MAL) ; WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Hampton (HAM), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Yeates, D.K. & Oberprieler, S.K. 2013. Two new species of the Australian bee fly genus Comptosia (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 349-354 (New species)

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