Subgenus Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) Brèthes, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euprojoannisia Brèthes, J. 1914. Description de six Cecidomyidae (Dipt.) de Buenos Aires. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 26: 151-156 [155].

  Type species:

   Euprojoannisia platensis Brèthes, 1914 by original designation.
• Euforcipomyia Malloch, J.R. 1915. The Chironomidae, or midges, of Illinois, with particular reference to the species occurring in the Illinois River. Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History 10: 274-543 [312].

  Type species:

   Euforcipomyia hirtipennis Malloch (= Ceratopogon palustris Meigen) by original designation.
• Cryptoscena Enderlein, G. 1936. 22. Ordnung: Zweiflügler, Diptera. Abt. 16. pp. 1-259 in Brohmer, P., Erhmann, P. & Ulmer, G. (eds). Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas.Vol. 6: Insekten. Leipzig : publisher unknown Vol. III. [51].

  Type species:

   Ceratopogon palustris Meigen by monotypy.
• Proforcipomyia Saunders, L.G 1957. Revision of the genus Forcipomyia based on characters of all stages. Canadian Journal of Zoology 34: 657-705 [662].

  Type species:

   Forcipomyia wirthi Saunders, 1957 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wirth, W.W. & Cavalieri, F. 1975. Sobre la identidad de Euprojoannisia platensis Brèthes, 1914 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Neotropica (La Plata) 21: 125-126 [125]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Oceanian, Oriental, Nearctic, Neotropical and Afrotropical Regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, 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), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), 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)

Distribution References

General References

Bystrak, P.G. & Wirth, W.W. 1978. The North American species of Forcipomyia, subgenus Euprojoannisia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). United States Department of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin 1591: 1—51 [1] (taxonomy)

Debenham, M.L. & Wirth, W.W. 1984. Australian and New Guinea species of the Forcipomyia subgenus Euprojoannisia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 851-889 [851] (taxonomy)

Wirth, W.W. & Cavalieri, F. 1975. Sobre la identidad de Euprojoannisia platensis Brèthes, 1914 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Neotropica (La Plata) 21: 125-126 [125] (as subgenus of Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818, extralimital synonymy)

 

History of changes

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		12-Feb-2010	(import)