Genus Diplotoxa Loew, 1863

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Introduction

Placement in tribe Diplotoxini confirmed by Riccardi & Amorim (2020).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB) ; ACT, NSW, Vic: Riverina (RIV) ; NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC) ; NSW, Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) ; NSW, WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Warren (WAR) ; NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Systematics

Details of nominate subgenus, not in Australia:

Diplotoxa Loew, H. 1863. Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria tertia. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7: 1-55 [Date published June] [54] (1864: 156).
Type species: Diplotoxa versicolor Loew, 1863 by monotypy.

Apterosoma Salmon, J.T. 1939. A remarkable fly from an ants' nest in New Zealand (Dipt., Chloropidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 8: 113-114 [Date published June] [113].
Type species: Apterosoma moorei Salmon, 1939 by original designation.

General References

Riccardi P.R. & Amorim, D.D.S. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Chloropinae of the world (Diptera: Chloropidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-53 [39]

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