Genus Psilota Meigen, 1822

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• Psilota Meigen, J.W. 1822. Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten. Hamm : Schulz-Wundermann Vol. 3 x + 416 pp. [256].

  Type species:

   Psilota anthracina Meigen, 1822 by monotypy.
• Coiloprosopa Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [449].

  Type species:

   Coiloprosopa nitidia Macquart, 1850 by monotypy.
• Emmyia Klocker, A. 1924. On a collection of syrphids from Queensland with descriptions of a new genus and of eight new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8: 53-60 [55].

  Type species:

   Emmyia queenslandica Klocker, 1924 by original designation.
• Parapsilota Hardy, G.H. 1934. Notes on Australian Syrphinae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 45: 12-19 [17] [subgenus of Psilota].

  Type species:

   Psilota viridis Macquart, 1847 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hardy, G.H. 1934. Notes on Australian Syrphinae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 45: 12-19 [17]
• Thompson, C. & Vockeroth, J.R. 1989. Family Syrphidae. pp. 437-458 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed.). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu and Leiden : Bishop Museum Press and E.J. Brill 1155 pp. [454]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Channel Country (CHC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP)

Diagnosis References

Young, A.D., Skevington, J.H. & Van Steenis, W. 2020. Revision of the Psilota Meigen, 1822 flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Australia. Zootaxa 4737(1): 1-126 [14-19] (redescription, world list of species and key to Australian species)

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