Austropeza is a genus of flies in the family Hybotidae.[3] It includes at least one species described from New Zealand, Austropeza isolita, which was originally described by James Edward Collin in 1928 as a species of Leptopeza. The species was originally known only from a single male collected from Waitati in South Island on January 1922. In December 2000, a female of the species was collected from a forest in Hurunui District of South Island.[4]
| Austropeza | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Hybotidae |
| Subfamily: | Ocydromiinae |
| Tribe: | Ocydromiini |
| Genus: | Austropeza Plant, 1989[2] |
| Species: | A. insolita
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| Binomial name | |
| Austropeza insolita | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leptopeza insolita Collin, 1928 | |
The species Leptopeza rubrithorax, described from Tasmania, is also included in this genus by some sources.[4]
References edit
- ^ Collin, James Edward (1928). New Zealand Empididae based on material in the British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. viii + 110.
- ^ Plant, A.R. (1989). "A revision of the Ocydromiinae (Diptera: Empidiodea: Hybotidae) of New Zealand with descriptions of new genera and species". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 16: 231–241.
- ^ Sinclair, Bradley J.; Cumming, Jeffrey M. (2006). "Morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1180. Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press: 1–172. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ a b Plant, A. R.; Didham, R. K. (2005). "The female of Austropeza Plant, 1989 (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae; Ocydromiinae)". New Zealand Entomologist. 28 (1): 85–87. doi:10.1080/00779962.2005.9722690.
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