Genus Dilophus Meigen, 1803
- Dilophus Meigen, J.W. 1803. Versuch einer neuen Gattungs-Eintheilung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten. Magazin für Insektenkunde (Illiger) 2: 259-281 [264].
Type species:
Tipula febrilis Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [442]. - Philia Meigen, J.W. 1800. Nouvelle classification des mouches à deux ailes (Diptera L.) d'après un plan tout nouveau. Paris : Perronneau pp. 1-40. [This publication suppressed by the I.C.Z.N.] [20] [Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of ICZN (1963)].
Type species:
Tipula febrilis Linnaeus, 1758 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 [588]. - Philia Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [426] [invalid name; Unavailable name; name proposed (along with Hirtea) in synonymy with Tipula Linnaeus, 1758 without characters to define each genus-group name].
- Philia Latreille, P.A. 1820. Le opere di Buffon. Nuovamente ordinate ed arricchite della sua vita di un ragguaglio dei progressi della storia naturale dal MDCCL in poi dal Conte di Lacépéde. Primiera edizione Italiana adorna in nuove e diligenti incisioni. Vol. XXXII. Storia naturale, generale e particolare de’crostacei e degl’insetti. Vol. II. Venezia [= Venice] : Apollo 664 +[4] pp. [360] [invalid name; Unavailable name; name proposed (along with Hirtea) in synonymy with Tipula Linnaeus, 1758 without characters to define each genus-group name].
- Philia Bezzi, M. 1907. Nomenklatorisches über Dipteren. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 26: 51-56 [56] [invalid name; Unavailable name; criteria to make the name available not fulfilled in this work. Bezzi (1907) included this name only in a list of Meigen 1800 names without stating their availability].
- Philia Meigen in Hendel, 1908 [Preoccupied by Philia Schiödte, 1842 and Philia Koch, 1846. Hendel (1908) was the first after Meigen (1800) to give characters to differentiate the taxon (reproducing Meigen’s characters) and to treat Philia as valid, which makes the name available from that work with Meigen as author. Hendel (1908) did not include any species. Coquillett (1910a: 588) was the first to include a species: Tipula febrilis Linnaeus, 1758, which is the type species by subsequent designation. Tipula febrilis Linnaeus, 1758 is currently treated in Dilophus Meigen, 1803, which makes Philia Meigen in Hendel, 1908 a junior synonym of Dilophus Meigen, 1803].
Type species:
Tipula febrilis Linnaeus, 1758 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 [588].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Hardy, D.E. 1989. Superfamily Bibionoidea. 5. Family Bibionidae. pp. 122-124 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. [122]
- Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T. 2017. Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet. Zootaxa 4275(1): 1–74 [47]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Afrotropical, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions, New Zealand, Indonesia (Irian Jaya), Papua New Guinea, Hawaii (Introduced).
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
Distribution References
- Hardy, D.E. 1966. A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Hawaii : Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station. Misc. Paper No. 185 20 pp. [7]
- Hardy, D.E. 1966. Superfamily Bibionoidea. Family Bibionidae. pp. 191-196 in Stone, C., Sabrosky, C.W., Wirth, W.W., Foote, R.H. & Coulson, J.R. (eds). A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook No. 276. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office 1696 pp. [195]
- Hardy, D.E. 1973. Superfamily Bibionoidea. Family Bibionidae. pp. 434-442 in Delfinado, M.D & Hardy, D.E. (eds). A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume 1. Suborder Nematocera. Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii Vol. 1 618 pp. [437]
- Hardy, D.E. 1980. Superfamily Bibionoidea. 14. Family Bibionidae. pp. 213-215 in Crosskey, R.W. (ed.). Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. London : British Museum 1437 pp. [215]
- Hardy, D.E. 1989. Superfamily Bibionoidea. 5. Family Bibionidae. pp. 122-124 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. [122]
- Harrison, R.A. 1990. Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera). Auckland, New Zealand : DSIR Plant Protection Vol. 20 17 pp. [8]
- Krivosheina, N.P. 1986. Family Bibionidae. pp. 319-330 in Soós, Á. & Papp, L. (eds). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 4. Sciaridae—Anisopodidae. Amsterdam : Elsevier 441 pp. [326]
Diagnosis
Members of this genus characterized by having a ring of spines at apex of the front tibia and variously arranged spines on dorsomedian portion of the segment, and by having 2 rows of combs on anterior portion of the mesonotum. Wing venation similar to that of Bibio with radial sector unbranched. Vein3+, lost or combined with m-cu crossvein and apical portion of anterior branch of vein Cu.
Diagnosis References
Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855
General References
Hardy, D.E. 1951. Studies in Pacific Bibionidae (Diptera). Part II: genus Philia Meigen. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 14: 257-275 [257] (taxonomy)
Hardy, D.E. 1982. The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 805-855 [820] (taxonomy)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Feb-2019 | DIPTERA Linnaeus, 1758 | 09-Jan-2019 | MODIFIED | |
| 16-Nov-2011 | 16-Nov-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |