Species Leptotarsus (Macromastix) dispar (Walker, 1835)
- Megistocera dispar Walker, F. 1835. Characters of some undescribed New Holland Diptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2: 468-473 [468].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ♀ ♂ adults (sex and number unknown), Australia (as New Holland). - Megistocera dimidiata Westwood, J.O. 1835. Insectorum Arachnoidumque novorum decades duo. Journal of Zoology, London 5: 440-455 [451].
Type data:
Holotype OUM ♀ adult, Australia (as Australasia). - Megistocera limbipennis Macquart, J. 1838. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. [Volume 1. Part 1]. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1838(2): 9-225 [64(60)].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP adult, unknown (as patrie inconnue). - Macrothorax ornatus Jaennicke, F. 1867. Neue exotische Dipteren. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 6: 311-407, pls 43 & 44 [Date published November 1867] [320].
Type data:
Holotype SMF ♂ adult, Australia.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53-116 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. [60]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Collected from rainforest canopy.
General References
Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1974. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. X. The genus Leptotarsus Guérin; the subgenus Macromastix Osten–Sacken. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 25: 31-62 [33, 35] (taxonomy)
Kitching, R.L. & Theischinger, G. 1996. The biodiversity of arthropods from Australian rainforest canopies: Tipulidae, with a description of the new species Leptotarsus (Macromastix) alfie Theischinger. The Entomologist 115(3): 140-153 [150]
Osten Sacken, C.R. 1887. Studies on Tipulidae. Part I. Review of the published genera of the Tipulidae longipalpi. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 30: 153-188 [end January 1887] [187] (synonymy, taxonomy)
Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Part VIII.—The Tipulidae longipalpi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5(1): 53-139, Pls. IV-VI [130] (taxonomy, synonymy)
Walker, F. 1848. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum pp. 1-229. [74] (synonymy)
Westwood, J.O. 1881. Notæ Dipterologicæ. No. 5.—Descriptions of new species of exotic Tipulidae, with an annotated summary of species belonging to the same family, previously described. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1881: 363-385 [378] (synonymy)
History of changes
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| 03-Nov-2011 | 29-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |