Species Lamprolonchaea brouniana (Bezzi, 1919)

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• Lonchaea brouniana Bezzi, M. 1919. Two new Ethiopian Lonchaeidae, with notes on other species (Dipt.). Bulletin of Entomological Research 9: 241-254 [Date published 28 April] [246] [proposed (incorrectly) as a new name for splendida sensu Broun, 1904: 307; made available by back reference to Broun (1905)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K272871 ♂ (26.xii.1920), Sydney, NSW [33° 52' S, 151° 13' E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Blacket, M.J. & Malipatil, M.B. 2010. Redescription of the Australian metallic-green tomato fly, Lamprolonchaea brouniana (Bezzi) (Diptera: Lonchaeidae), with notes on the Australian Lamprolonchaea fauna. Zootaxa 2670: 31-51 [34-47].
• Lonchaea splendida Broun, 1904 [homonym of Lonchaea splendida Loew 1873].
• Lamprolonchaea rugosifrons Bezzi. M. 1923. On the Australian Lonchaeidae (Diptera). The Australian Zoologist 3(5): 183-185 [Date published 18 December] [183].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (26.xii.1920), NSW, Sydney.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pitkin, B.R. 1989. Family Lonchaeidae. pp. 476-478 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. [476] (synonymy of Lonchaea rugosifrons)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Pest.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae collected from Solanaceae (tomato fruit, potatato, capsicum and eggplant), Rosaceae (apricot, nectarine and peach), Rutaceae (grapefruit, lemon, mandarin and orange), and Lauraceae (avocado)

General References

Blacket, M.J. & Malipatil, M.B. 2010. Redescription of the Australian metallic-green tomato fly, Lamprolonchaea brouniana (Bezzi) (Diptera: Lonchaeidae), with notes on the Australian Lamprolonchaea fauna. Zootaxa 2670: 31-51

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