Genus Valeseguya Colless, 1990

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• Valeseguya Colless, D.H. 1990. Valeseguya rieki, a new genus and species of dipteran from Australia (Nematocera: Anisopodidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France N.S. 26: 351-353 [351].

  Type species:

   Valeseguya rieki Colless, 1990 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Diagnosis

Distinguished from Cretoseguya by the eyes emarginate at the base of the antennae, prescence of 12 serrate flagellomeres, vein M1 fused to R4+5, and veins M2 and M3 connected directly to the basal cell.

Diagnosis References

Amorim D.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2006. Valeseguyidae, a new family of Diptera in the Scatopsoidea, with a new genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Systematic Entomology 31: 508-516

General References

Grimaldi, D.A. 1991. Mycetobiine woodgnats (Diptera:Anisopodidae) from the Oligo-Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic, and Old World affinities. American Museum Novitates 3014: 1-24 [1] (taxonomy)

History of changes