Genus Phthiraxia Li & Yeates, 2016

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• Phthiraxia Li, X. & Yeates, D.K. 2016. Challenging the definition of the subfamily Usiinae: Phthiraxini, an unusual new tribe of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae), based on Phthiraxia bowdeni gen. and sp. nov. from Western Australia. Austral Entomology [Date published early version published online on 1/9/2016: Paper version published in 2017, Vol. 56(3): 302–310].

  Type species:

   Phthiraxia bowdeni Li & Yeates, 2016 by monotypy.

Distribution

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Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS)

General References

Li, X., Teasdale, L.C., Bayless, K.M., Ellis, A.G., Wiegmann, B.M., Lamas, J.E., Lambkin, C.L., Evenhuis, N.L., Nicholls, J.A., Hartley, D., Shin, S., Trautwein, M., Zwick, A., Lessard, B.D., & Yeates, D.K. 2021. Phylogenomics reveals accelerated late Cretaceous diversification of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Cladistics 37: 276-297 [12] (transferred from subfamily Usiinae to reinstated subfamily Phthiriinae based on phylogenomic data)

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