Subgenus Leptotarsus (Leptotarsus) Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptotarsus Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1831. Insectes. Pls 20–21 in Duperrey, L.J. Voyage Autour du Monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. Atlas. Paris : Bertrand. [286].

  Type species:

   Leptotarsus macquartii Guérin-Méneville, 1831 by original designation.
• Semnotes Westwood, J.O. 1876. Notæ Dipterologicæ. No. 2.—Descriptions of some new exotic species of Tipulidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 501-506 [501].

  Type species:

   Semnotes imperatoria Westwood, 1876 by subsequent designation, see Pierre, C. 1926. Diptera. Fam. Tipulidae; subfam. Tipulinae. Genera Insectorum 186: 1-68 [46].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Neotropical Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

General References

Alexander, C.P. 1969. Notes on the tropical American species of Tipulidae (Diptera) VIII. Subfamily Tipulinae. Studia Entomologica 12: 161-244 [185]

Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1968. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia I. A review of the genera of the subfamily Tipulinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 459-494 [481]

Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1972. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. VII. The genus Leptotarsus Guérin; the subgenera Leptotarsus s.str. and Pseudoleptotarsus Alexander. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 16: 11-43 [11]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Nov-2011		03-Nov-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)