Genus Palpostoma Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

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• Palpostoma 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 [429].

  Type species:

   Palpostoma testacea Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 by monotypy.
• Hamaxia Walker, F. 1860. Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected in Amboyna by Mr. A.R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 5: 144-168 [18 July] [153].

  Type species:

   Hamaxia incongrua Walker, 1860 by monotypy.
• Opsophasiops Townsend, C.H.T. 1915. Proposal of new muscoid genera for old species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 28: 19-23 [22].

  Type species:

   Myiophasia flava Coquillett, 1900 by original designation.
• Ochromeigenia Townsend, C.H.T. 1919. New genera and species of muscoid flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(= No. 2301): 541-592 [Date published 15 December] [578].

  Type species:

   Ochromeigenia ormioides Townsend, 1919 (= Hamaxia incongrua Walker, 1860) by original designation.
• Pseudopalpostoma Townsend, C.H.T. 1926. New muscoid flies of the Oriental, Australian and African faunas. Philippine Journal of Science 29: 529-544 [Date published 5 April] [533].

  Type species:

   Palpostoma desvoidyi Aldrich, 1922 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, Qld: Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

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