Species Leucophenga albofasciata (Macquart, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drosophila albofasciata Macquart, J. 1851. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4.e supplément publié dans les mémoires de 1849. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1850: 134-294 [before 5 April; reprinted by Roret, Paris, see Evenhuis, N. & Okada, T. 1989. 98. Family Drosophilidae. pp. 609–638 in Evenhuis, N. (ed). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Hawaii & Leiden : Bishop Museum Press & E.J. Brill pp. 1155. (915)] [277].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Nouvelle Galle du sud (New South Wales).
• Drosophila albicincta De Meijere, J.C.H. 1908. Studien über südostasiatische Dipteren. II. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 51: 105-180 [25 September] [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA ♂, Semarang, Java, Indonesia.
• Leucophenga niveifasciata Malloch, J.R. 1923. Notes on Australian Diptera with descriptions [No. 1]. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 601-622 [14 December; this is the first in a series of papers, later to have the shortened title 'Notes on Australian Diptera', which spanned the years 1923–1941, comprising 39 parts] [614].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K48518 ♂, Woolgoolga, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM K48519 ♀, Eidsvold, Queensland; USNM ♂, Sydney, New South Wales; USNM ♂, Woolgoolga, New South Wales
  Comment: see Lee (1956) for information on types.
• Leucophenga polita Malloch, J.R. 1923. Notes on Australian Diptera with descriptions [No. 1]. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 601-622 [14 December; this is the first in a series of papers, later to have the shortened title 'Notes on Australian Diptera', which spanned the years 1923–1941, comprising 39 parts] [615].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K48521 ♀, Woolgoolga, New South Wales.
• Leucophenga leucozona Duda, O. 1923. Die orientalischen und australischen Drosophiliden-Arten (Dipteren) des Ungarischen National-Museums zu Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 20: 24-59 [24 December] [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype HNHM ?♀ (specimen covered by mould according to Bächli (1984)), N.-Guinea, Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen [= Madang, Papua New Guinea].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bock, I.R. 1979. Drosophilidae of Australia III. Leucophenga (Insecta: Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Suppl. Ser. 71: 1-56 [27 June] [4]

 

Generic Combinations

• Leucophenga albofasciata (Macquart, 1851). —
  Malloch, J.R. 1924. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 348-359 [24 October] [349]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

PNG, India, Indonesia (Java), Nepal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland

General References

Bächli, G. 1984. Catalog of the types of Drosophilidae in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (Diptera). Folia Entomologica Hungarica 45: 27-41

Lee, D.J., Crust, M. & Sabrosky, C.W. 1956. The Australasian Diptera of J. R. Malloch. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 80(3): 289-342 [Date published 24 April 1956]

 

History of changes

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