Genus Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis, 1839

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichomyia Curtis, J. 1839. 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. 16 pp. Pls 722–769. [745].

  Type species:

   Trichomyia urbica Haliday, 1839 by monotypy.
• Termitodipteron Holmgren, N. 1905. Zwei neue Termitomastiden aus Südamerika. Zoologischer Anzeiger 29: 529-536 [533].

  Type species:

   Termitodipteron wasmanni Holmgren, 1905 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Duckhouse, D.A. 1978. Taxonomy, phylogeny and distribution of the genus Trichomyia (Diptera, Psychodidae) in Australia and New Guinea. Systematic Entomology 3: 197-243 [197]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Distribution References

General References

Duckhouse, D.A. 1972. Psychodidae (Diptera, Nematocera) of South Chile, subfamilies Sycoracinae and Trichomyiinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 124: 231-268 [262] (biogeography and phylogeny)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-May-2011		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)