Genus Paraleia Tonnoir, 1929

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Genus Paraleia Tonnoir, 1929

Paraleia Tonnoir, A.L. 1929. Australian Mycetophilidae. Synopsis of the genera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 54: 584-614 [611].
Type species:
Paraleia fulvescens Tonnoir, 1929 by original designation.

Introduction

Tonnoir described genus Paraleia in the Family Mycetophilidae in 1929. Armbruster (1938) proposed the genus name Paraleia also in family Mycetophilidae. This name is pre-occupied by Paraleia Tonnoir 1929.
Armbruster did not designate a type species or provide a diagnosis. In 1944 a compiler at the Imperial Institute of Entomology designated Paraleia rhymosoides as type species.
Evenhuis (1994) recognised the pre-occupation and renamed the genus Armbrustelia.
Evenhuis et al (2008) noted that the genus group name Paraleia Armbruster is a nomen nudum, being proposed post-1930 without designation of a type species from the 2 included species, but did not mention that the name was preoccupied.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Neotropical Region.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), 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)