• Inopus Walker, F. 1850. Diptera. Part I. pp. 1-76 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1. [2].

  Type species:

   Inopus despectus Walker, 1850 by monotypy.
• Metoponia Macquart, J. 1847. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. [2.e supplément]. Paris : Roret pp. 5–104, pls 1–6. [Published before 11 September] [28] [preocc. Duponchel, 1845].

  Type species:

   Metoponia rubriceps Macquart, 1847 by monotypy.
• Cryptoberis White, A. 1916. A Revision of the Stratiomyidae of Australia. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 71-100 [Date published 29 March 1916] [73].

  Type species:

   Cryptoberis hebescens White, 1916 by monotypy.
• Altermetoponia Miller, D.W. 1945. Generic name changes in Diptera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 14: 72 [72] [nom. nov. for Metoponia Macquart, 1847].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH) ; Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

History of changes

• Altermetoponia flava James, M.T. 1968. A new stratiomyid pest of sugar cane in Australia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 7(2): 155-157 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T6627 ♀, QLD, Queensland.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC)

History of changes

• Metoponia gemina Hardy, G.H. 1920. A revision of the Chiromyzini (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 532-542 [535].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K43463 ♀ (sourced from Daniels, 1978), NSW, Leura.
  Paratype(s) AM K. 352868 ♂ (as "allotype"), Leura, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB)

History of changes

• Xenomorpha grandicornis Hardy, G.H. 1920. Australian Stratiomyiidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1920: 33-64 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (Location of type unknown according to Woodley (2001 p. 47)), TAS, Cradle Mountain (Pencil Pine Creek?).

  Type locality references:

  Lessard & Woodley in Lessard, B.D., Yeates, D.K., & Woodley, N.E. 2020. Generic revision of the Chiromyzinae soldier flies of Australia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), including the first record of Boreoides Hardy, 1920, from New Zealand. Austral Entomology 59: 302-322 [318].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lessard & Woodley in Lessard, B.D., Yeates, D.K., & Woodley, N.E. 2020. Generic revision of the Chiromyzinae soldier flies of Australia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), including the first record of Boreoides Hardy, 1920, from New Zealand. Austral Entomology 59: 302-322 [318] (transferred from previous position in Chiromyza Wiedemann, 1820)

Generic Combinations

• Inopus grandicornis (Hardy, 1920).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH)

History of changes

• Inopus grossus Nagatomi, A. & J. Yukawa 1968. The genus Inopus (= Metoponia, Altermetoponia) (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Pacific Insects 10: 521-528 [523].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, VIC, Belgrave.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

History of changes

• Chiromyza hitchcocki James, M.T. 1961. A new Chiromyza from Australia (Diptera, Stratiomyidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(13): 365-368 [365].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, QLD, Gordonvale.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Chiromyza longicornis Hardy, G.H. 1924. A revision of the Australian Chiromyzini (Stratiomyiidae. Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 360-370 [366].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ (Location of type unknown according to Woodley (2001 p. 47)), QLD, National Park.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lessard & Woodley in Lessard, B.D., Yeates, D.K., & Woodley, N.E. 2020. Generic revision of the Chiromyzinae soldier flies of Australia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), including the first record of Boreoides Hardy, 1920, from New Zealand. Austral Entomology 59: 302-322 [318] (transferred from previous position in Chiromyza Wiedemann, 1820)

Generic Combinations

• Inopus longicornis (Hardy, 1924).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Metoponia rubriceps Macquart, J. 1847. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. [2.e supplément]. Paris : Roret pp. 5–104, pls 1–6. [Published before 11 September] [28].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♀, Mainland Australia and Tasmania.
• Inopus despectus Walker, F. 1850. Diptera. Part I. pp. 1-76 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1. [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, locality not given.
• Chiromyza fulvicaput Walker, F. 1852. Diptera (Part III). pp. 157-252 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1 474 pp. [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, New South Wales?.
• Cryptoberis hebescens White, A. 1916. A Revision of the Stratiomyidae of Australia. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 71-100 [Date published 29 March 1916] [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, NSW, Sydney.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced into New Zealand and the United States of America

Australian Endemic.

History of changes