Genus Merochlorops Howlett, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Merochlorops Maxwell-Lefroy, H. & Howlett, F.M. 1909. Indian insect life. A manual of the insects of the plains (tropical India). Calcutta & Simla : Thacker, Spinck & Co. pp. xii + 786. [Date published 31 December +] [627, pl. 66].

  Type species:

   Formosina ceylanica Duda, 1930 by subsequent designation, see Sabrosky, C.W. 1984. An overlooked generic name in Chloropidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 86: 713 [Date published 17 July].
• Formosina Becker, T. 1911. Chloropidae. Eine monographische Studie. III. Teil. Die indo-australische Region. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 9: 35-170 [Date published 26 June] [78].

  Type species:

   Chloropisca lucens De Meijere, 1908 by subsequent designation, see Malloch, J.R. 1931. Notes on Australian Diptera. XXVII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 56(2): 60-78 [Date published 15 May] [76].

Introduction

Placement in tribe Mindini confirmed by Riccardi & Amorim (2020).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Riccardi P.R. & Amorim, D.D.S. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Chloropinae of the world (Diptera: Chloropidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 1-53 [40]

History of changes