Genus Sphaeromias Curtis, 1829

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaeromias Curtis, J. 1829. British Entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland: containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plants upon which they are found. London : Privately published Vol. 6 pls 242-289. [285].

  Type species:

   Sphaeromias albomarginatus Curtis, 1829 by original designation.
• Sphaeromias Stephens, J.F. 1829. The Nomenclature of British Insects; being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the systematic catalogue of British insects, and forming a guide to their classification, &c. &c. London : Baldwin & Cradock 368 pp. [52] [nom. nud.].
• Sphaeromyia Agassiz, L. 1847. Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis, continens nomina systematica classium, ordinum, familiarum et generum animalium omnium, tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymiis plantarum, nec non variis adnotationibus et emendationibus. Soloduri [= Solothurn, Switzerland] : Jent & Gassmann. [346] [unjustified emendation of Sphaeromias Curtis, 1829].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Debenham, M.L. 1974. A revision of the Australian and New Guinea predatory Ceratopogonidae (Diptera: Nematocera) of the tribes Heteromyiini and Sphaeromiini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 28: 1-92 [53] (generic diagnosis, extralimital synonym)

Debenham, M.L. 1989. 25. Family Ceratopogonidae. pp. 226-251 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. [250]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Mar-2012		30-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)