Subgenus Leptoconops (Styloconops) Kieffer, 1921

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• Styloconops Kieffer, J.J. 1921. Sur quelques diptères piqueurs de la tribu des Ceratopogoninae. Archives de l'Institut Pasteur d' Afrique Nord 1: 107-115 [published June] [107].

  Type species:

   Leptoconops albiventris de Meijere, 1915 by original designation.
• Acanthoconops Carter, H.F. 1921. A revision of the genus Leptoconops, Skuse. Bulletin of Entomological Research 12: 1-28 [published March] [24].

  Type species:

   Acanthoconops spinosifrons Carter, 1921 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, 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), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), 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)

General References

Chanthawanich, N. & Delfinado, M. 1967. Some species of Leptoconops of the Oriental and Pacific Regions (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). Journal of Medical Entomology 4: 294-303 [300] (as subgenus of Leptoconops Skuse, 1889)

Lee, D.J. 1948. Australasian Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera). Part II. The Leptoconops group of genera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 72: 332-338 [335] (taxonomy)

Smee, L. 1966. A revision of the subfamily Leptoconopinae Noè (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Australasia. Australian Journal of Zoology 14: 993-1025 [1016] (taxonomy)

Wirth, W.W. & Atchley, W.R. 1973. A review of the North American Leptoconops (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Grad. Stud. Texas Tech. Univ. 5: 57 pp. [14] (taxonomy)

History of changes