ZOOTAXA 1886 Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia I.M. MACKERRAS, D.M. SPRATT & D.K. YEATES Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand I.M. MacKerras, D.M. Spratt & D.K. Yeates Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia (Zootaxa 1886) 80 pp.; 30 cm. 26 Sept. 2008 ISBN 978-1-86977-277-2 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-278-9 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2008 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ © 2008 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 1886 © 2008 Magnolia Press MACKERRAS ET AL. Zootaxa 1886: 1–80 (2008) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2008 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia I.M. MACKERRAS1,†, D.M. SPRATT2 & D.K. YEATES1,3 1 CSIRO Entomology, PO Box 1700,Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia. 2. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, GPO Box 284, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia. 3. Schlinger Fellow, Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia †. Deceased 21 March 1980 Table of contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5 History of this work ............................................................................................................................................................ 6 Economic importance of tabanids in the Australasian Region ........................................................................................... 7 Materials and methods ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 Subfamily TABANINAE .................................................................................................................................................... 8 Tribe DIACHLORINI ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Key to Australian genera of Diachlorini ............................................................................................................................. 9 Genus Lissimas Enderlein ................................................................................................................................................... 9 Lissimas australis (Ricardo) ...................................................................................................................................... 10 Genus Cydistomyia Taylor ................................................................................................................................................ 11 Key to females of Australian species of Cydistomyia ....................................................................................................... 12 Cydistomyia casuarinae (English, Mackerras & Dyce) ............................................................................................. 16 Cydistomyia cyanea (Wiedemann) ............................................................................................................................ 18 Cydistomyia torresi (Ferguson & Hill) ..................................................................................................................... 19 Cydistomyia danielsorum Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. .......................................................................................... 20 Cydistomyia palmensis (Ferguson & Hill) ................................................................................................................ 21 Cydistomyia pseudoardens (Taylor).......................................................................................................................... 23 Cydistomyia fergusoni Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ............................................................................................... 27 Cydistomyia tasmaniensis Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. .......................................................................................... 28 Cydistomyia hardyi Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. .................................................................................................... 30 Cydistomyia bancroftae Mackerras ........................................................................................................................... 31 Cydistomyia exemplum Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. .............................................................................................. 33 Cydistomyia obscurus Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ................................................................................................ 34 Cydistomyia sabulosus Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ............................................................................................... 35 Cydistomyia monteithi Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ............................................................................................... 36 Cydistomyia nigropicta (Macquart) .......................................................................................................................... 37 Cydistomyia hyperythrea (Bigot) .............................................................................................................................. 38 Cydistomyia avida (Bigot) ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Cydistomyia curvabilis Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. .............................................................................................. 42 Cydistomyia pilosus Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ................................................................................................... 42 Cydistomyia triangularis Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ........................................................................................... 44 Cydistomyia duplonotata (Ricardo) .......................................................................................................................... 45 Cydistomyia improcerus Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ............................................................................................ 46 Accepted by N. Evenhuis: 17 Jul. 2008; published: 26 Sept. 2008 3 Cydistomyia laticallosa (Ricardo) ............................................................................................................................ 48 Cydistomyia doddi (Taylor) ....................................................................................................................................... 49 Cydistomyia magnetica (Ferguson & Hill) ............................................................................................................... 51 Cydistomyia alternata (Ferguson & Hill) ................................................................................................................. 53 Cydistomyia wentworthi (Ferguson & Hill) .............................................................................................................. 55 Cydistomyia fenestra Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ................................................................................................. 56 Cydistomyia pruina Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. .................................................................................................... 59 Cydistomyia infirmus Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ................................................................................................. 60 Cydistomyia victoriensis (Ricardo) ........................................................................................................................... 60 Cydistomyia musgravii (Taylor) ................................................................................................................................ 63 Cydistomyia rivularis (Ferguson & Hill) .................................................................................................................. 64 Cydistomyia atmophora (Taylor) .............................................................................................................................. 66 Cydistomyia silviformis (Taylor) ............................................................................................................................... 68 Cydistomyia innubilus Mackerras & Spratt, sp. nov. ............................................................................................... 69 Cydistomyia brevior (Walker) ..................................................................................................................................