Genus Pterodontia Gray, 1832
- Pterodontia Gray, G. in Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. 1832. The class Insecta arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith, F.L.S., A.S. &c. and Edward Pidgeon, Esq. and notices of new genera and species by George Gray, Esq. Volume the second. In, Griffith, E. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organisation by the Baron Cuvier, Member of the Institute of France, etc., with Supplementary Additions to Each Order. London : Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Vol. 15 793 pp. [779].
Type species:
Pterodontia flavipes Gray, 1832 by monotypy. - Nothra Westwood, J.O. 1876. Notae Dipterologicae. No. 3.— Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 507-518 [515].
Type species:
Nothra bicolor Westwood, 1876 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)
General References
Erichson, W.F. 1840. Die Henopier, Eine familie aus der Ordung der Dipteren. 135–180, pl. 1, Figs 7–10 [161] (as Pterodontia)
Hardy, G.H. 1921. Australian Bombyliidae and Cyrtidae (Diptera). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1921: 41-83 [76, 77] (as Pterodontia and Nothra)
Hardy, G.H. 1946. Miscellaneous notes on Australian Diptera. XII. Cyrtidae, Dolichopodidae and Phoridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 71: 65–71 [66] (as Pterodontia and Nothra)
Macquart, J. 1838. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome première – 2.e partie. Paris : Roret pp. 5-207. [174] (as Pterodontia)
Neboiss, A. 1971. Australian Panopinae (Diptera: Acroceridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 205-222 (as Pterodontia)
Paramonov, S.J. 1957. A review of Australian Acroceridae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 5: 521-546 [529] (as Pterodontia)
Schlinger, E.I. 1959. A review of the genus Rhysogaster Aldrich, with descriptions of new genera and new species of Oriental, Ethiopian and Australian Acroceridae (Diptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 52: 150–159 [158] (as Pterodontia)
Schlinger, E.I. 1981. Acroceridae. pp. 575-584 in McAlpine, J.F., Peterson, B.V., Shewell, G.E., Teskey, H.J., Vockeroth, J.R. & Wood, D.M. (coordinators) (eds). Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Ottawa : Research Branch, Agriculture Canada. Monograph 27 Vol. 1 674 pp. (as Pterodontia)
Schlinger, E.I. 1987. The Biology of Acroceridae (Diptera): True Endoparasitoids of Spiders. pp. 319-327 in Nentwig, W. (ed.). Ecophysiology of Spiders. berlin, Heidelberg and New York : Springer-Verlag 427 pp. (as Pterodontia)
Schlinger, E.I. 2009. Acroceridae (spider flies, small-headed flies). pp. 551–556 in Brown B.V. et al. (Eds). Manual of Central American Diptera. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : NRC Research Press Vol. 1 714 pp. (as Pterodontia)
Walker, F. 1855. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collections of the British Museum. Part VI. Supplement II. pp. 331-506. [346] (as Pterodontia)
Westwood, J.O. 1876. Notae Dipterologicae. No. 3.— Descriptions of new genera and species of the family Acroceridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1876: 507-518 [513] (as Pterodontia)
White, A. 1914. The Diptera-Brachycera of Tasmania. Part I. Families Leptidae, Stratiomyidae, Nemestrinidae, & Cyrtidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1914: 35-74 [Date published 10 September 1914] [68] (as Pterodontia)
Winterton, S.L., Wiegmann, B.M. & Schlinger, E.I. 2007. Phylogeny and Bayesian divergence time estimations of small-headed flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) using multiple molecular markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43: 808–832 (as Pterodontia)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-Aug-2013 | Panopinae | 14-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |