• DOI:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3680.1.7
• Corpus ID: 41462510

Collessiama (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae: Taenogera genus-group), a new genus from eastern Australia, with a key to the Australian genera of Therevidae

@article{Lambkin2013CollessiamaT,
  title={Collessiama (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae: Taenogera genus-group), a new genus from eastern Australia, with a key to the Australian genera of Therevidae},
  author={Christine L Lambkin and Federica Turco},
  journal={Zootaxa},
  year={2013},
  volume={3680},
  pages={96-117}
}

• C. Lambkin, Federica Turco
• Published 18 June 2013
• Biology
• Zootaxa

The stiletto fly family Therevidae is diverse and species rich in Australasia, with numerous undescribed species. Ongoing studies of Ectinorhynchus Macquart, 1850 from the Taenogera genus-group indicate that the genus Evansomyia Mann, 1928 stat. rev. is valid and is raised from synonymy for three species: Evansomyia phyciformis (White, 1915) stat. rev. , Evansomyia scutellus (Mann, 1933) comb. nov. , and Evansomyia venusta (Erichson, 1842) comb. nov. . Two new species of an unusual new therevid genus, Collessiama Lambkin gen. nov. , are described from females and rare males collected in montane localities in eastern Australia. The dichotomous key to Australian therevid genera is updated to include Evan-somyia and Collessiama , and a key to species of Collessiama is provided. Collessiama narelleae Lambkin sp. nov. and Collessiama damani Lambkin sp. nov. are illustrated with drawings and high-resolution photographs of adult males and females, and genitalia. Detailed locality records are given for each species and distribution maps are provided.