Species Thereutria amaraca (Walker, 1849)
- Laphria amaracus Walker, F. 1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London : British Museum pp. [iii] + 231–484. [Date published April 21] [380].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, New Holland [=Australia]. - Asilus tucca Walker, F. 1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London : British Museum pp. [iii] + 231–484. [Date published April 21] [437-438].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Not Given [=Australia]. - Ommatius ialmus Walker, F. 1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II. London : British Museum pp. [iii] + 231–484. [Date published April 21] [479].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, New Holland [=Australia]. - Dasypogon aurifacies Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [367-368 (63-64), pl. 6, fig. 5].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♂, Nouvelle-Hollande, cote orientale [=eastern Australia]. - Dasypogon diversicolor Macquart, J. 1850. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 4e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1849(2): 309-479 [reprinted with pagination 5–161, Roret, Paris. The reprint version includes only pp. 309–465 of the original journal article] [368 (64)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) OUM 1♂, Nouvelle-Hollande [=Australia]; OUM 1♀, Nouvelle-Hollande [=Australia]. - Scandon compactus Walker, F. 1851. Diptera. Part II. pp. 77-156 in Saunders, W.W. (ed.). Insecta Saundersiana: or characters of undescribed insects in the collection of William Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. London : Van Voorst Vol. 1 474 pp. [108-109, pl. 4, fig 7].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1♀, New South Wales; OUM 2♀♀, New South Wales. - Laphria (Theretria) calcar Loew, H. 1851. Bemerkungen über die Familie der Asiliden. Program der Königlichen Realschule zu Meseritz 1851: 1-22 [Date published 29 September 1851] [20].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMHB 2058 2♀♀, Neuholland [=Australia]. - Laphria diversipes Macquart, J. 1855. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5e supplément. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 2 1: 25-156 [Recorded in the 18 August issue of Bibliogr. Fr. reprinted with separate pagination, 5–136, Roret, Paris, 1855] [73 (53)].
Type data:
Syntype(s) OUM 1♀, De l'Oceanie. Sydney [=Sydney, N.S.W.]. - Proctacanthus spilogaster Thomson, C.G. 1869. Diptera. Species nova descripsit. pp. 443-614 in Unknown (ed.). Kongliga svenska fregatten Eugenies resa omkring jordan under befl af C.A. Virgin, Âren 1851-1853. Vol. 2 (Zoologi), [section] 1, (Insecta). Stockholm : P.A. Norstedt & Sner 617 pp. [469].
Type data:
Holotype NRS ♀, Sidney [=Sydney, N.S.W.}. - Thereutria caligula Bigot, J.M.F. 1878. Diptères nouveaux ou peu connus. 10e partie (1) (Pars prima). XV. Tribu des Asilidi. Curies des Laphridae et Dasypogonidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 8: 213-240 [Date published 27 November 1878] [233].
Type data:
Holotype OUM ♀, Australia. - Dasypogon diversipes Kirby, 1884.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Ricardo, G. 1912. A revision of the Asilidae of Australasia. [Continued.]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 10: 350-360 [Date published 1 September 1912] [354]
- Daniels, G. 1989. Family Asilidae. pp. 326–349 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. [Date published 23 August 1989] [343]
Generic Combinations
- Rachiopogon aurifacies (White, 1918). —
Hardy, G.H.H. 1934. The Asilidae of Australia.—Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 14: 1-35 [Date published 2 July 1934] [24] - Laphria tucca (Walker, 1849). —
Hull, F.M. 1962. Robber flies of the world. The genera of the family Asilidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 224: x + 907 (2 parts) [Date published 25 June 1962] [324]
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Thereutria amaricus Hardy, 1950. —
Hardy, G.H. 1950. How a robber-fly (Dipt., Asilidae) falls prey to a scorpion-fly (Mecopt., Bittacidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 86: 146 [146]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)
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