Genus Hermetia Latreille, 1804

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• Hermetia Latreille, P.A. 1804. Société de Naturalistes et d'Agriculteurs, Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, principalement à l'agriculture et à l'économie rurale et domestique. Paris : Déterville Vol. XXIV(Section 3: tableaux méthodiques d'histoire naturelle) 84 + 4 + 85 + 238 + 18 + 34 pp. [192].

  Type species:

   Musca illucens Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Acrodesmia Enderlein, G. 1914. Dipterologische Studien. X. Zur Kenntnis der Stratiomyiiden mit 3stiger Media und ihre Gruppierung. B. Formen, bei denen der 1. Cubitalast mit der Discoidalzelle eine Strecke verschmolzen ist (Familien: Hermetiinae, Clitellariinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 44(1): 1-25 [3].

  Type species:

   Acrodesmia luederwaldti Enderlein, 1914 by original designation.
• Massicyta Walker, F. 1857 [1856]. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Singapore and Malacca by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 4-39 [Date published 1857] [8].

  Type species:

   Massicyta bicolor Walker, 1856 by monotypy.
• Stenothorax Agassiz, L. 1846. Nomenclatoris Zoologici Index Universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland] : Jent & Gassmann viii 393 pp. [published between 1846–1848] [369] [unjustified emendation of Thorsena Macquart, 1838].
• Thorasena Macquart, J. 1838. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1838(2): 9-225 [177].

  Type species:

   Hermetia pectoralis Wiedemann, 1824 by original designation.
• Scammatocera Enderlein, G. 1914. Dipterologische Studien. X. Zur Kenntnis der Stratiomyiiden mit 3stiger Media und ihre Gruppierung. B. Formen, bei denen der 1. Cubitalast mit der Discoidalzelle eine Strecke verschmolzen ist (Familien: Hermetiinae, Clitellariinae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 44(1): 1-25 [5].

  Type species:

   Scammatocera virescens Enderlein, 1914 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Woodley, N.E. 2001. A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera). Washington and Leiden : North American Dipterists Society and Backhuys 473 pp. (for full synonymy)

Introduction

Australian Hermetiinae revised by Lessard et al. (2018).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT: Darwin Coastal (DAC)

General References

Lessard, B.D., Yeates, D.K. & Woodley, N.E. 2018. Revision of the Hermetiinae of Australia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Austral Entomology [Date published 13 April 2018]

History of changes