Species Sylvicola neozelandicus (Schiner, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhyphus neozelandicus 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] [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW 12♂ 12♀ adults, New Zealand.
• Rhyphus phaleratus Walker, F. 1848. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum pp. 1-229. [124] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Rhyphus phaleratus Hutton, F.W. 1874. List of the insects recorded as having been found in New Zealand previous to the year 1870. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 6: 158-171 [165] [nom. nud.].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Rhyphus phaleratus Kirby, W.F. 1884. Notes on the Diptera of New Zealand, supplementary to Prof. Hutton's last catalogue of 1881. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884: 269-275 [269].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 adult (abdomen missing; although the original series clearly implies more than one type specimen only one could be located in the BMNH), not given (New Zealand).

  Type locality references:

  Peterson, B.V. 1989. Family Anisopodidae. pp. 180-181 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. [184].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Peterson, B.V. 1989. Family Anisopodidae. pp. 180-181 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. [181]

 

Generic Combinations

• Syvicola neozelandicus (Schiner, 1868). —
  Hardy, G.H. 1967. The Anisopodidae (Dipt.) of Katoomba. Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (N.S.W.) 3(1966): 30-33

 

Introduction

The description and synonyms are from New Zealand specimens.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Hardy (1967) records a single specimen from Katoomba

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: King (KIN), Sydney Basin (SB), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

 

General References

Chadwick, C.E. 1967. A habitat of Sylvicola neozelandica (Schin.) (Dipt., Anisopodidae). Zoological Records Insects 3: 33 [33] (biology)

Fuller, M.E. 1935. Notes on Australasian Anisopodidae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 291-302 [301] (as Anisopus neozelandicus (Schiner, 1868))

Hardy, G.H. 1967. The Anisopodidae (Dipt.) of Katoomba. Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia (N.S.W.) 3(1966): 30-33

Tonnoir, A.L. 1923. Notes on Australasian Rhyphidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 12: 502-505 [503] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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