Species Sepsis nitens (Wiedemann, 1824)

Museums

Sepsis nitens Wiedemann, C.R.G. 1824. Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maxime congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Kiliae [= Kiel]. 60 pp. [57].
Type data:
Status unknown, ♀, 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. [179].
Sepsis tuberculata Duda, O. 1926. Monographie der Sepsiden (Dipt.). II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 40: 1-110 [64].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMUA xi.1907, Jacobsen, Batavia
Comment: It appears that Duda (1926) refers to this and other specimens from Formosa and Gordonvale N.Qld as a syntype series. It is unclear whether one specimen was nominated as the type representative of the species.
Sepsis brevicosta Brunetti, E. 1909. New Oriental Sepsinae. Records of the Indian Museum 3: 343-372 [Date published December] [360] [1910].
Type data:
Status unknown, Tinpahar, 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. [179].

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra-limital distribution: Oriental Region; Timor, Papua New Guinea

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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