Genus Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

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• Hydrotaea Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. 1830. Essai sur les myodaires. Mémoires Présentés par Divers Savant a l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France 2(2): 1-813 [509].

  Type species:

   Musca meteorica Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Curtis, J. 1839. British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. London : Privately published Vol. 16 pp. Pls 722–769. [768].
• Ophyra Robineau-Desvoidy, J.B. 1830. Essai sur les myodaires. Mémoires Présentés par Divers Savant a l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France 2(2): 1-813 [516].

  Type species:

   Ophyra nitida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 by subsequent designation, see Rondani, C. 1866. Anthomyinae Italicae collectae distinctae et in ordinem dispositae. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 9: 68-217 [70, 84].

Introduction

Formerly as subfamily Muscinae, now recognised as belonging to Azeliinae based on the molecular evidence provided by Grzywacz et al. (2021).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

General References

Grzywacz, A., Trzeciak, P., Wiegmann,B.M., Cassel, B.K., Pape, T., Walczak, K., Bystrowski, C., Nelson, L., & Piwczyński, M. 2021. Towards a new classification of Muscidae (Diptera): a comparison of hypotheses based on multiple molecular phylogenetic approaches. Systematic Entomology 46: 508-525 [520]

History of changes