Species Metahelea bifasciata (Kieffer, 1917)
- Palpomyia bifasciata Kieffer, J.J. 1917. Chironomides d'Australie conservés au Musée National Hongrois de Budapest. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 15: 175-228 [194].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNH 3♀ (type series destroyed by fire, see Debenham, M.L. 1979. An Annotated Checklist and Bibliography of Australasian Region Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, Nematocera). Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, Monograph 1 xiv 671 pp. [xiii]), locality unknown.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
General References
Debenham, M.L. 1974. A revision of the Australian and New Guinea predatory Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) of the tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 28: 1-92 [5] (taxonomy, distribution)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 30-Mar-2012 | 29-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |