Genus Pelidnoptera Rondani, 1856

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• Pelidnoptera Rondani, C. 1856. Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus. Vol: I. Genera Italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in familias et stirpes aggregata. Parmae [= Parma] : A. Stoschi 226 + [2] pp. [107].

  Type species:

   Musca nigripennis Fabricius, 1794 by original designation.
• Phaeomyia Schiner, 1862.

  Type species:

   Sciomyza fuscipennis Meigen, 1830 by subsequent designation, see Hendel, F. 1923. Die paläarktischen Muscidae acalyptratae Girschn. =Haplostomata Frey nach ihren Familien und Gattungen. II. Die Gattungen. Konowia 2: 203-215 [206].
• Lignodesia Rondani, C. 1869. Ortalidinae Italicae collectae, distinctae et in ordinem dispositae [part]. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 1: 5-37 [10].

  Type species:

   Lignodesia fuscipennis Rondani, 1869 (= Sciomyza fuscipennis Meigen, 1830) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hendel , F. 1902. Revision der paläarktischen Sciomyziden (Dipteren-Subfamilie). Abhandlungen der K.K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 2(1): 1-92
• Steyskal, G.C. 1965. The subfamilies of Sciomyzidae of the World (Diptera: Acalyptratae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 58: 593-594

Distribution

States

South Australia

General References

Rozkošný, R. & Elberg, K. 1984. Family Sciomyzidae (Tetanoceridae). pp. 167-193 in Soós, Á. & Papp, L. (eds). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Volume 9. Micropezidae-Agromyzidae. Amsterdam : Académiai Kiadó, Budapest and Elsevier Science Publishers 460 pp. [169] (overlooked the typification by monotypy in Rondani (1868c: 204) and apparently missed Rondani’s (1869a: 7) type species citation of the same species and, unnecessarily designated Sciomyza fuscipennis Meigen, 1830 as type species (see O'Hara et al. (2011: 105))

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