Genus Dicranomyia Stephens, 1829

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dicranomyia Stephens, J.F. 1829. The Nomenclature of British Insects; being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the systematic catalogue of British insects, and forming a guide to their classification, &c. &c. London : Baldwin & Cradock 368 pp. [53].

  Type species:

   Limnobia modesta Meigen, 1818 by subsequent designation, see Coquillett, D.W. 1910. The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(=No. 1719): 499-647 [546].
• Furcomyia Meigen, J.W. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Erster Theil. Aachen : F.W. Forstmann xxxvi 332 pp. [133] [Furcomyia Meigen, 1818 has precedence over Dicronomyia Stephens, 1829 by Law of Priority, however, in the interest of stability no change is made in the Catalogue].

  Type species:

   Limnobia lutea Meigen, 1804 by subsequent designation, see Coquillett, D.W. 1910. The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(=No. 1719): 499-647 [546].
• Numantia Bigot, J.M.F. 1854. Essai d'une classification générale et synoptique de l'ordre des Insectes Diptères (3e mémoire). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 2: 447-482 [470].

  Type species:

   Limonia fusca Meigen, 1804 by subsequent designation, see Coquillett, D.W. 1910. The type-species of the North American genera of Diptera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37(=No. 1719): 499-647 [576].
• Telecephala Pierre, C. 1922. Nematocera Polyneura recueillis au Maroc par M. Charles Alluaud (1919–1920) (insectes diptères). Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles et Physiques du Maroc 1: 21-24 [21].

  Type species:

   Limnobia longicollis Macquart, 1846 by monotypy.
• Tedotea Santos Abreu, D. E. 1923. Monograffia de los Limonidos de las islas Canarias. Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Arts de Barcelona 18: 35-164 [111].

  Type species:

   Tedotea domestica Santos Abreu, 1923 by monotypy (= Limnobia vicina Macquart, 1838).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Theischinger, G. 1994. The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia V. The genera Helius Le Peletier & Serville, Toxorhina Loew, Limonia Meigen (part), Tonnoiromyia Alexander and Collessophila gen. nov. (all tribe Limoniini) and Atarba Osten-Sacken, Amphineurus Skuse, Erioptera Meigen, Cheilotrichia Rossi, Gonomyia Meigen and Idiocera Dale (all tribe Eriopterini). Stapfia 36: 37-276 [82]
• Oosterbroek, P. 2011. Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera,Tipuloidae: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae). http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/ccw/index.php

 

Introduction

Removed from subgenus status in Limonia, to full genus status in Oosterbroek in Evenhuis (2007) and Oosterbroek (2011).

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

General References

Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.) 2007. Family Limoniidae. Catalogue of the Australasian and Oceanic Regions (online version). [Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/aocathome.html]

Oosterbroek, P. 2011. Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (Diptera,Tipuloidae: Pediciidae, Limoniidae, Cylindrotomidae, Tipulidae). http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/ccw/index.php

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Mar-2016		30-Aug-2011	MOVED
31-Jul-2018		09-Aug-2011	MOVED
31-Jul-2018		26-Jul-2011	MOVED
03-Nov-2011		19-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)