Molophilus Curtis 1833
- 1. Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia.
- 2. Australian Museum, Entomology, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. & theischingergunther @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5207 - 2626
- 3. Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, N 1 G 2 W 1, Canada. & valerie @ uoguelph. ca; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6053 - 0949
Description
Genus Molophilus Curtis, 1833
Type species: Molophilus brevipennis Curtis, 1833, by original designation.
Diagnosis. Rostrum short, little developed; meron between mesocoxa and metacoxa extensive, seen from lateral aspect larger than mesocoxa; setae of legs simple; R l longer than 2/3 wing length; Rs ending in cell r 3; R 2+3 and R 4+5 distinct; R 5 not fused with M 1+2; r-m present; CuA 2 and A l not fused distally; a 2 long and wide (modified from Theischinger 1992).
The genus Molophilus includes over 1,000 species, present on all continents except Antarctica. Their diversity is greatest in the Australasian region, with 464 species occurring across Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and West Papua (Oosterbroek 2023). Australia boasts more species of Molophilus than any other country or continent with 325 species recorded, including the species newly described here. Except for a single species, M. (Molophilus) flavonotatus Skuse, 1890, which is also known from New Zealand, the Australian species of Molophilus are all endemic.
Theischinger (1992) undertook a comprehensive review of the Australian Molophilus, describing many new species and providing a key to the subgenera and species groups. Following Theischinger’s review additional new species have been described over numerous works (Billingham & Theischinger 2018a, 2018b, 2019a, 2019b; Theischinger 1994, 1996a, 1999, 2000, 2012, 2017).
Molophilus is readily distinguished from other Australian Limoniid genera using the key provided in Theischinger (1996b).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Limoniidae
- Genus
- Molophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Curtis
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Molophilus Curtis, 1833 sec. Billingham, Theischinger & Levesque-Beaudin, 2023
References
- Theischinger, G. (1992) The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. II. The genus Molophilus Curtis. Stapfia, 27, 5 - 150.
- Oosterbroek, P. (2023) Catalogue of the craneflies of the World (CCW). Available online at ccw. naturalis. nl (accessed January 2023)
- Billingham, Z. D. & Theischinger, G. (2018 a) Three new species of crane fly from Australia (Diptera: Tipuloidea). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 50 (1), 321 - 332.
- Billingham, Z. D. & Theischinger, G. (2018 b) New and poorly known species of Molophilus Curtis crane flies from Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae). Australian Entomologist, 45 (1), 75 - 92.
- Billingham, Z. D. & Theischinger, G. (2019 a) Two new species of Molophilus Curtis from Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae). Linzer biologische Beitrage, 51 (2), 803 - 809.
- Billingham, Z. D. & Theischinger, G. (2019 b) A new species of Molophilus (Superbomolophilus) Theischinger (Diptera: Limoniidae) from the Barrington Tops region of New South Wales, Australia. Australian Entomologist, 46 (2), 93 - 98.
- Theischinger, G. (1994) New and insufficiently known species of Gynoplistia Macquart and Molophilus Curtis (Diptera: Tipulidae: Limoniidae) from Australia. Stapfia, 36, 1 - 36.
- Theischinger, G. (1996 a) The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. VI. New and insufficiently known species of Toxorhina Loew, Limonia Meigen, Atarba Osten Sacken, Amphineurus Skuse, Gonomyia Meigen and Molophilus Curtis. Stapfia, 44, 1 - 18.
- Theischinger, G. (1999) The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. IX. New taxa of Gynoplistia Macquart, Gonomyia Meigen and Molophilus Curtis. Linzer biologische Beitrage, 31 (1), 493 - 502.
- Theischinger, G. (2000) The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. X. New species of Toxorhina Loew, Limonia Meigen, Austrolimnophila Alexander, Gynoplistia Macquart and Molophilus Curtis. Linzer biologische Beitrage, 32 (2), 1181 - 1190.
- Theischinger, G. (2012) Two remarkable new species of Molophilus Curtis from Australia (Insecta: Diptera: Tipuloidea, Limoniidae). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Osterreich, 148 / 149, 275 - 278.
- Theischinger, G. (1996 b) The Limoniinae (Diptera: Tipulidae) of Australia. VIII. Preliminary key to the genus-group taxa. Stapfia, 44, 117 - 144.