Genus Plinthina Walker, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plinthina Walker, F. 1850. Diptera. Part I. pp. 1-76 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1. [10].

  Type species:

   Pangonia macroporum Macquart, 1850 by original designation.

 

Introduction

Distinguished by the distinct marbling of the wings, striping on the thorax, and broad, flattened palpi, this genus of Australian horse flies has been recorded to blood-feed on cattle and humans (Mackerras 1960; Lessard 2014).

Previously considered to be a subgenus of Scaptia, it was later raised to genus level based on molecular and morphological evidence (Lessard et al. 2013; Lessard 2014). A key to all 12 known species was provided by Lessard & Yeates (2011).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Central Arnhem (CA), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Northern Kimberley (NK) ; Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Lessard, B.D. 2014. Revision of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae). Austral Entomology [printed version: Austral Entomology (2014) 53, 203–239] (Raised to genus (stat. n.) from subgenus of Scaptia)

Lessard, B.D., Cameron, S.L., Bayless, K.M., Wiegmann, B.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2013. The evolution and biogeography of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) inferred from multiple mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 516-540

Lessard, B.D in Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2011. New species of the Australia horse fly subgenus Scaptia (Plinthina) Walker 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae), including species descriptions and a revised key. Australian Journal of Entomology 50(3): 241-252

Mackerras, I.M. 1960. The Tabanidae (Diptera) of Australia III. Subfamily Pangoniinae, tribe Scionini and supplement to Pangoniini. Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 1-152

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Mar-2022	TABANIDAE	28-Oct-2021	MODIFIED	Dr Bryan Lessard (ABRS)
	TABANIDAE	15-Apr-2014	ADDED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)