Austrothaumalea

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Culicomorpha
Superfamilia: Chironomoidea

Familia: Thaumaleidae
Genus: Austrothaumalea
Species (43): A. apicalis – A. appendiculata – A. australis – A. barrydayi – A. bickeli – A. bicornis – A. bifida – A. caledonica – A. capricornis – A. cervula – A. chilensis – A. commoni – A. concava – A. crosbyi – A. denticulata – A. fusca – A. gibbsi – A. halteralis – A. macalpinei – A. macfarlanei – A. maxwelli – A. minnamurrae – A. neozealandica – A. ngaire – A. nudipennis – A. pala – A. queenslandensis – A. ramosa – A. similis – A. simplex – A. sinuosa – A. spatulata – A. spiculata – A. spinosa – A. tasmanica – A. theischingeri – A. tonnoiri – A. uloola – A. uptoni – A. victoriae – A. walkerae – A. zentae – A. zwicki

[sources: Catalogue of Life: 2010 Annual Checklist, McLellan (1988, - A. setipennis
), Sinclair (2008b, + A. caledonica
)]
Name

Austrothaumalea Tonnoir, 1927
Original status: valid genus
Gender: feminine
Type species: Austrothaumalea neozealandica Tonnoir, 1927
Fixation: original designation
Originally included nominal species: (1) Austrothaumalea neozealandica, (2) Austrothaumalea appendiculata

References

McLellan, I.D. 1983: New diagnosis for genus Austrothaumalea, and redescription of A. neozealandica (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). New Zealand journal of zoology, 10: 267–270. Google books BUGZ
McLellan, I.D. 1988: A revision of New Zealand Thaumaleidae (DipteraNematocera) with descriptions of new species and a new genus. New Zealand journal of zoology, 15: 563–575. BUGZ
Pivar, R.J., Moulton, J.K. & Sinclair, B.J. 2016. A new species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from Australia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). Zootaxa 4132(4): 594–597. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.4.12. Reference page.
Schmid, F. 1970: Quelques thaumaléides nouvelles ou peu connues (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). Le Naturaliste canadien, 97(5): 499–510. [not seen]
Sinclair, B.J. 2000: Immature stages of Australian Austrothaumalea Tonnoir and Niphta Theischinger (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). Australian journal of entomology, 39: 171–176. DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00162.x
Sinclair, B.J. 2008: New species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from Australia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). Records of the Australian Museum, 60: 1–12.
Sinclair, B.J. 2008: A new species of Austrothaumalea Tonnoir from New Caledonia (Diptera: Thaumaleidae). Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 197: 291–295. Reference page.
Theischinger, G. 1986: Australian Thaumaleidae (Insecta: Diptera). Records of the Australian Museum, 38: 291–317.
Theischinger, G. 1988: Austrothaumalea bickeli spec. nov., a new thaumaleid from Australia (Insecta: Diptera: Thaumaleidae). Stapfia, (17): 211–213. PDF
Tonnoir, A.L. 1927: Description of new and remarkable New Zealand Diptera. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 3: 101–112. BUGZ

Links

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