Species Howickia kurandensis (Richards, 1973)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptocera (Popondetta) kurandensis Richards, O.W. 1973. The Sphaeroceridae (= Borboridae or Cypselidae; Diptera Cyclorrhapha) of the Australian region. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 22: 297-401 [358-359].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K70477 ♀ (D.K. McAlpine, 21.v.1958, D.K. McAlpine), Kuranda, QLD [16° 49' 11" S 145° 38' 12" E].

Generic Combinations

• Popondetta kurandensis (Richards, 1973). —
  Marshall, S.A. 1989. 96. Family Sphaeroceridae. pp. 601-607 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. [605]
• Howickia kurandensis (Richards, 1973).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Kuwahara, G., & Marshall, S. 2022. A revision of the Australian species of Howickia Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae). Zootaxa 5192: 1-152 [109] (transferred from former position in Popondetta, herein synonymised under Howickia)

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