Genus Xenasteia Hardy, 1980

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• Xenasteia Hardy, D. E. 1980. Xenasteiidae, a New Family of Schizophora (Diptera) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 23(2): 205–225 [211].

Introduction

Only two species of Xenasteia have been recorded from Australia by Ismay (2003), but no formal descriptions have yet been undertaken. The family Xenasteiidae was, previously, only known from the Mediterranean coast and the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Papp, 1998). McAlpine (1998) recorded the genus Xenasteia from Papua New Guinea and it was also reported from Australia by inclusion in keys (Colless & McAlpine, 1991), but not formally added to the fauna.

General References

Colless, D.H. & McAlpine, D.K. 1991. Diptera (Flies). pp. 717-786 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137.

Ismay, J. 2003. New Species and Records of Xenasteiidae (Diptera) from the Australian and Oceanian Regions. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 73: 41–46 [45]

McAlpine, D. K. 1998. Xenasteiidae. In, Oosterbroek, P. The Diptera families of North Borneo, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Fauna Malesiana Handbook. Netherlands : Leiden.

Papp, L. 1998. Family Xenasteiidae. pp. 305–308 in Papp, L. & Darvas, B. (eds). Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 3, Higher Brachycera. Budapest : Science Herald 880 pp.

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