• Ptilogyna Westwood, J.O. 1835. Insectorum novorum exoticorum (ex ordine Dipterorum) descriptiones. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine 3 6: 280-281 [30 April 1835] [280].

  Type species:

   Tipula ramicornis Walker, 1835 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1971. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. III. The genus Ptilogyna Westwood. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 1: 1-41 [3]

History of changes

• Ptilogyna minima Alexander, C.P. 1922. Undescribed crane-flies (Tanyderidae and Tipulidae) in the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 223-270 [254].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I12168 ♂ adult, Melville Island, NT.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♀ adult.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1971. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. III. The genus Ptilogyna Westwood. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 1: 1-41 [11] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Tipula ramicornis Walker, F. 1835. Characters of some undescribed New Holland Diptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2: 468-473 [469].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ adults, Australia (as New Holland); BMNH ♀ adults, Australia (as New Holland).
• Ptilogyna marginalis Westwood, J.O. 1835. Insectorum novorum exoticorum (ex ordine Dipterorum) descriptiones. London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine 3 6: 280-281 [30 April 1835] [280].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀ adult, Australia (as Australasia).
• Ptilogyna picta Schiner, I.R. 1868 [1867]. Diptera. In, Unknown (Ed.). Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. 1. Abtheilung. Wien [= Vienna] : B. K. Gerold's Sohn vi + 388 pp. [Date published 30 April 1868] [38].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♀ adult, Sydney, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dobrotworsky, N.V. 1971. The Tipulidae (Diptera) of Australia. III. The genus Ptilogyna Westwood. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 1: 1-41 [11]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

General References

Loew, H. 1851. Beschreibung einiger neuen Tipularia terricola. Linnaea Entomologica 5: 385-406 [392] (discovered the incorrect locality information and consequently erroneously proposed the replacement name Ptilogyna macquartii Loew, 1851 for Ptilogyna fuliginosa Macquart, 1838)

Macquart, J. 1838. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. [Volume 1. Part 1]. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1838(2): 9-225 [46] (mis-identification of Ptilogyna ramicornis (Walker, 1835) as Ptilogyna fuliginosa (Say, 1823) due to incorrect locality of South America)

Osten Sacken, C.R. 1887. Studies on Tipulidae. Part I. Review of the published genera of the Tipulidae longipalpi. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 30: 153-188 [end January 1887] [176] (synonymy of Ptilogyna picta Schiner, 1868)

Westwood, J.O. 1881. Notæ Dipterologicæ. No. 5.—Descriptions of new species of exotic Tipulidae, with an annotated summary of species belonging to the same family, previously described. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1881: 363-385 [382] (synonymy of Ptilogyna marginalis Westwood, 1835)

History of changes