Species Molophilus (Molophilus) flavonotatus Skuse, 1890

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• Molophilus flavonotatus Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Part VII.—The Tipulidae brevipalpi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(3): 757-892, Pls. XXI-XXIV [810].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂ adult, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ adult (number of type specimens not stated in original description, Alexander, C.P. 1929. Notes on the Australian species of Molophilus [Tipulidae, Diptera]. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 137–144 [139]; Theischinger, G. 1992. The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. II. The genus Molophilus Curtis. Stapfia 27: 5–150 [68]).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Alexander, C.P. 1929. Notes on the Australian species of Molophilus [Tipulidae, Diptera]. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 137-144 [139].
• Molophilus canus Skuse, F.A.A. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Part VII.—The Tipulidae brevipalpi. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(3): 757-892, Pls. XXI-XXIV [811].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂ adult (number type specimens not stated in original description), Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Alexander, C.P. 1929. Notes on the Australian species of Molophilus [Tipulidae, Diptera]. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 137-144 [139]; Theischinger, G. 1992. The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. II. The genus Molophilus Curtis. Stapfia 27: 5-150 [68].
• Molophilus evanidus Alexander, C.P. 1923. New or little-known Tipulidae (Diptera).—XVII. Australasian species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 12: 265-281 [271].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂, Ross, Westland, New Zealand (South Island).
  Paratype(s) USNM ♂.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Theischinger, G. 1992. The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. II. The genus Molophilus Curtis. Stapfia 27: 5-150 [68] (also for taxonomy, distribution)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Alexander, C.P. 1929. Notes on the Australian species of Molophilus [Tipulidae, Diptera]. I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 137-144 [139] (synonymy of Molphilus canus Skuse, 1890 with Molophilus flavonotatus Skuse, 1890)

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