Two new species of crane fly (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Tasmania, Australia

Zacariah D Billingham; Gunther Theischinger; Valerie Levesque-Beaudin

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.5

Two new species of crane fly (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Tasmania, Australia

Zootaxa. 2023 Mar 16;5256(1):77-83. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.5.

Authors

Zacariah D Billingham¹, Gunther Theischinger², Valerie Levesque-Beaudin³

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Ecology, Environment & Evolution, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia.. zac.billingham@ghd.com.
² 2Australian Museum, Entomology, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.. theischingergunther@gmail.com.
³ 3Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada.. valerie@uoguelph.ca.

PMID: 37045240
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.5

Abstract

Two new species of Australian crane fly are described, illustrated and with COI sequences included: Gynoplistia (Gynoplistia) lutruwita Billingham & Theischinger sp. nov., and Molophilus (Molophilus) serricauda Billingham & Theischinger sp. nov., both from the Huon Valley region of southern Tasmania. Their affinities with other known Australian species are discussed.

MeSH terms

Animals
Australia
Diptera*
Environment
Nematocera
Tasmania