Genus Toxorhina Loew, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Toxorhina Loew, H. 1850. Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna. Programm Königlichen Realschule Meseritz 1850: 1-44 [36] [originally proposed without included species; incorrect subsequent spelling as Toxorrhina, see Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53–116 in Evenhuis, N.L. (ed). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press; Leiden : E.J. Brill 1155 pp. (114)].

  Type species:

   Toxorhina fragilis Loew, 1851 by subsequent designation, see Osten Sacken, C.R. 1869. Monographs of the Diptera of North America. Part IV. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 8(219): 1-345 [113] (designated from the first 4 included species in <0080> [400]).

  Secondary source:

   Oosterbroek, P. 1989. Family Tipulidae. pp. 53-116 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.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Theischinger, G. 1994. The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia V. The genera Helius Le Peletier & Serville, Toxorhina Loew, Limonia Meigen (part), Tonnoiromyia Alexander and Collessophila gen. nov. (all tribe Limoniini) and Atarba Osten-Sacken, Amphineurus Skuse, Erioptera Meigen, Cheilotrichia Rossi, Gonomyia Meigen and Idiocera Dale (all tribe Eriopterini). Stapfia 36: 37-276 [55]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Distribution References

General References

Theischinger, G. 1994. The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia V. The genera Helius Le Peletier & Serville, Toxorhina Loew, Limonia Meigen (part), Tonnoiromyia Alexander and Collessophila gen. nov. (all tribe Limoniini) and Atarba Osten-Sacken, Amphineurus Skuse, Erioptera Meigen, Cheilotrichia Rossi, Gonomyia Meigen and Idiocera Dale (all tribe Eriopterini). Stapfia 36: 37-276 [55] (revision of Australian fauna, placement of Toxorhina in the Limoniini)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Mar-2016		30-Aug-2011	MOVED
31-Jul-2018		09-Aug-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)