• Psychoda Latreille, P.A. 1796. Précis des Caractères génériques des Insectes, disposés dans un order naturel par citoyen Latreille. Brive : F. Bourdeaux xiv 201 pp. 5 pls. [152].

  Type species:

   Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent monotypy, see Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [424].
• Phalaenula Meigen, J.W. 1800. Nouvelle classification des mouches à deux ailes (Diptera L.) d'après un plan tout nouveau. Paris : Perronneau pp. 1-40. [This publication suppressed by the I.C.Z.N.] [18] [invalid name; Unavailable name; work suppressed for the purposes of zoological nomenclature by action of ICZN (1963)].

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1963. Opinion 678; the suppression under the plenary powers of the pamphlet published by Meigen, 1800. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 20: 339-342.
• Phalaenula Desmarest, A. 1818. Phalaenula. In, Anonymous. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition presqu’entièrement refondue et considérarablement augmentée; avec des figures tirées des trois règnes de la nature. Paris : Deterville Vol. 25. [Date published 26 Dec. 1818] [469] [After Meigen (1800) the next usage of Phalaenula was in Desmarest (1818), where it was placed in synonymy with Psychoda Latreille, and no species were included. The name was made available by Pöppig (1846), who treated it as a valid name and listed the first included species: Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758, indicating it was the type species. Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 is currently treated in Psychoda, making Phalaenula Desmarest, 1818 a junior synonym of Psychoda Latreille, 1797. Coquillett (1910) gave the type species as Tipula ocellaris Meigen, 1803, but this was not an originally included species. Stone (1941: 413) mistakenly thought that Latreille’s (1802) usage of “phalaenules” was sufficient to allow Latreille’s (1802) listing of Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 as a first inclusion of species in Phalaenula, but stated that it still needed a type species designation and deferred to Coquillett’s (1910) designation of Tipula ocellaris Meigen, 1803 as the first valid designation. This led Stone (1941) to conclude that Phalaenula was synonymous with Clytocerus Eaton, 1905 (Evenhuis & Pape 2017)].

  Type species:

   Tipula phalaenoides Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Pöppig, E.F. 1846. Phalaenula. In, Ersch, J.S. & Grüber, J.G. Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern bearbeitet und herausgegeben. Dritter Section O–Z. Einundzwanziger Theil. Pflanzeisen—Phantasma. Leipzig : F.A. Brockhaus 491 + [1] pp. [399].

  Secondary source:

   Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)]; Pöppig, E.F. 1846. Phalaenula. In, Ersch, J.S. & Grüber, J.G. Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern bearbeitet und herausgegeben. Dritter Section O–Z. Einundzwanziger Theil. Pflanzeisen—Phantasma. Leipzig : F.A. Brockhaus 491 + [1] pp. [399]; Stone, A. 1941. The generic names of Meigen 1800 and their proper application (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 34: 404–418 [413].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Quate, L.W. 1966. Family Psychodidae. pp. 91-97 in Stone, C., Sabrosky, C.W., Wirth, W.W., Foote, R.H. & Coulson, J.R. (eds). A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook No. 276. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office 1696 pp. [93]
• Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T. 2017. Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet. Zootaxa 4275(1): 1–74 [47]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), 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), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Antarctic Region

• Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Hawaii
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Samoa

Nearctic Region

• United States of America

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Taiwan

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

History of changes

• Psychoda alternata Say, T. 1824. Appendix. Part I.— Natural History. I. Zoology. E. Class Insecta. pp. 268-378 in Keating, W.H. (ed.). Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. &c. performed in the year 1823, by the order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major, U.S.T.E. Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, and Calhoun. Philadelphia : Carey & Lea Vol. 2 vi 459 pp. [358].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown adults (the author states that this species was very common), Pennsylvania, USA.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva common in sewerage works.

General References

Del Rosario, F. 1936. The American species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Philippine Journal of Science 59: 85-148 [93] (taxonomy)

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 (distribution)

Duckhouse, D.A. & Lewis, D.J. 1989. Superfamily Psychodoidea. 15. Family Psychodidae. pp. 166-179 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. [175] (extralimital synonym)

Jezek, J. 2000. New and interesting moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Australian museums of Perth and Sydney. Casopis Národního Musea. Praha 169(4): 23-33 (recorded as Tinearia alternata by this author)

Satchell, G.H. 1947. The ecology of the British species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Annals of Applied Biology 34: 611-621 [611] (biology)

Satchell, G.H. 1947. The larvae of the British species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Parasitology 38: 51-69 [60] (larval morphology and biology)

Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [359] (cited as present in Australia)

Tonnoir, A.L. 1922. Synopsis des espèces européennes du genre Psychoda (Diptères). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 62: 49-88 [72] (extralimital synonyms)

Tonnoir, A.L. 1934. Notes synonymiques sur quelques Psychodidae (Diptera). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 74: 69-82 [79] (further extralimital synonyms)

History of changes

• Psychoda apennata Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [388].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Burnie, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 5♂ 4♀ adults (there is one more ♀ paratype than is cited in the original description).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [208] (taxonomy of female)

History of changes

• Psychoda gracilipenis Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [201].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult (not found), Ferntree Gully, Dandenong Ranges, TAS.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

History of changes

• Psychoda makati Del Rosario, F. 1936. Philippine Psychodidae (Diptera), I. Psychodinae. Philippine Journal of Science 59: 553-572 [568].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂ ♀ adults, San Pedro Makati, Rizal Province, Luzon, The Philippines.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Samoa

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Taiwan

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [372] (extralimital synonym, distribution, taxonomy)

History of changes

• Psychoda severini parthenogenetica Tonnoir, A.L 1940. A synopsis of the British Psychodidae (Dipt.), with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Society for British Entomology 7: 21-64 [53] [originally described as a subspecies of Psychoda severini Tonnoir, 1922].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 17♀ adults (the type specimens are assumed to be the females from the type series of Psychoda severini), Archenne, Belgium.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Restricted in Australia and elsewhere to beyond latitude 33º, north and south.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), 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)

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult parthenogenetic,triploid; larva collected from sewerage filters.

General References

Duckhouse, D.A. 1962. Some British Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera): descriptions of species and a discussion on the problem of species pairs. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 114: 403-436 [428] (new status as Psychoda parthenogenetica Tonnoir, 1940)

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 (distribution)

Duckhouse, D.A. 1985. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of the subantarctic islands, with observations on the incidence of parthenogenesis. International Journal of Entomology 27: 173-184 [177] (distribution, biology and ecology, taxonomy)

Satchell, G.H. 1947. The ecology of the British species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Annals of Applied Biology 34: 611-621 [611] (biology)

Satchell, G.H. 1947. The larvae of the British species of Psychoda (Diptera: Psychodidae). Parasitology 38: 51-69 [51] (larval morphology and biology)

Tonnoir, A.L. 1922. Synopsis des espèces européennes du genre Psychoda (Diptères). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 62: 49-88 [78] (as Psychoda severini)

Troiana, G. 1978. Triploidy in the natural populations of the psychodine moth fly Psychoda parthenogenetica Tonnoir (Diptera: Psychodidae). Caryologia 31: 225-232 (genetics and taxonomy)

History of changes

• Psychoda pseudalternata Bryan, E.H., Jr 1940. Notes and exhibitions. [Psychoda pseudalternata]. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: 370 [370] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Psychoda pseudalternata Swezey, O.H. 1940. Records of immigrant insects for the year 1939. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 10: 374 [374] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Psychoda pseudalternata Williams, F.X. 1943. Biological studies in Hawaiian water-loving insects—part III. Diptera or flies—C, Tipulidae and Psychodidae. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 11: 313-338 [326] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Status unknown.
• Psychoda pseudalternata Williams, F.X. 1946. Psychoda pseudalternata n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 12: 637 [637].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♂ adult, Canberra, ACT.
  Paratype(s) BPBM 3♀ adults; BPBM 1 adult (partly dissected).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Duckhouse, D.A. & Lewis, D.J. 1989. Superfamily Psychodoidea. 15. Family Psychodidae. pp. 166-179 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. [177]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread Australia, presumed introduced.

Introduced.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [194] (distribution, biology, as P. pseudoalternata)

Duckhouse, D.A. & Lewis, D.J. 1989. Superfamily Psychodoidea. 15. Family Psychodidae. pp. 166-179 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. [177] (listed as distribution widespread in Australia, common incorrect subsequent spelling as Psychoda pseudoalternata)

Jezek, J. 2000. New and interesting moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Australian museums of Perth and Sydney. Casopis Národního Musea. Praha 169(4): 23-33 [27] (as Tinearia pseudalternata)

Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [372] (redescription, as P. pseudoalternata)

History of changes

• Psychoda truncata Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [381].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Ferntree Gully, VIC.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♀ adult.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [197] (in key)

History of changes

• Psychoda wattsi Duckhouse, D.A. 1966. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of southern Australia: subfamily Psychodinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 118: 153-220 [213].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀ adult (not found), Glenelg, SA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 6♂ 12♀ adults (not found).

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from Glenelg and Dry Creek, 6 miles N of Adelaide, SA.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

History of changes

• Psychoda ypsylon Satchell, G.H. 1953. The Australian Psychodidae (Diptera), part 1. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 357-418 [389].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Ferntree, TAS.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 5♂ adults (1 not found).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

History of changes