Species Sepsis dissimilis Brunetti, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepsis dissimilis Brunetti, E. 1909. New Oriental Sepsinae. Records of the Indian Museum 3: 343-372 [Date published December] [355].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Shasthancottah, Kerala; Garhwal district, Uttar Pradesh; and Rajmahal, Bihar, India.

  Type locality references:

  Zuska, J. 1977. Family Sepsidae. In, Delfinado, M.D. & Hardy, D.E. (eds). A catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume 3. Suborder Cyclorrapha (excluding Division Aschiza). Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii Vol. 3 x + 854 pp. [174–181].
• Sepsis albopunctata Lamb, C.G. 1914. The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Vol. V. No. XV.—Diptera: Heteroneuridae, Ortalidae, Trypetidae, Sepsidae, Micropezidae, Drosophilidae, Geomyzidae, Milichidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zool. 2 16: 307-372 [July] [323].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mahé, Seychelles.

  Type locality references:

  Zuska, J. 1977. Family Sepsidae. In, Delfinado, M.D. & Hardy, D.E. (eds). A catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region. Volume 3. Suborder Cyclorrapha (excluding Division Aschiza). Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii Vol. 3 x + 854 pp. [177].
• Sepsis hirtifemur Malloch, J.R. 1925. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 311-340 [15 December] [314].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K359381 ♂ (2.iv.1923), Mosman, NSW [33° 49' 39" S 151° 14' 35" E].

  Type locality references:

  Malloch, J.R. 1925. Notes on Australian Diptera. No. VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 311-340 [15 December] [314].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Duda, O. 1926. Monographie der Sepsiden (Dipt.). II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 40: 1-110 [39–41]
• Zuska, J. & Colless, D.H. 1984. Australian Sepsidae (Diptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 23(1): 59-67 [66] (Current synonymy listed in this article. Reasons for synonymy not mentioned. Note: Generally referred to under the name Sepsis albopunctata in Australian collections)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Extra-limital distribution: India; Papua New Guinea; Vanuatu; Afrotropical and Oriental regions

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

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