Ditomyiidae Keilin, 1919

Falaschi, Rafaela Lopes, Toczek, Fernanda Ceres & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2019, Catalogue of Ditomyiidae and Diadocidiidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) types housed in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 59, pp. 1-7 : 2-3

Family Ditomyiidae Keilin, 1919 Genus Australosymmerus Freeman, 1954

Australosymmerus (Melosymmerus) bisetosus ( Edwards, 1940)

Edwards, 1940: 442 (original description). Lane, 1946a: 339 (redescription), fig. 1 (male genitalia); Munroe, 1974: 65 (redescription), figs. 35 (male genitalia), 61 (female genitalia), 65b (wing), 73 (phylogeny); Papavero, 1977b: 19 B.2 (catalogue), Falaschi & Amorim, 2013: 123 (lectotype designation). Type locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina, Seara, Nova Teutônia. Distr. – Neotropical: Brazil (São Paulo, Santa Catarina). Lectotype ♂, BMNH.

Paralectotype ♂ with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “ PARALECTOTYPE | Australosymmerus (Melosymmerus) | bisetosus ( Edwards, 1940) | Designated by Falaschi, RL & | Amorim, DS”; (2) print- ed on white paper: “ MZ004473 ”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ 9..7 193 8 | Brasilien | Nova Teutonia | 27°11′B.52°23′L [27°11′S 52°23′W] | Fritz Plaumann”; (4) printed on white paper: “ Brit.Mus. | 1938-682.”; (5) handwritten on white paper: “ Centrocnemis | bisetosa Edw.”; (6) printed on rounded yellow paper:“Para- | type”.

Microvial with labels: (1) printed on yellow paper: “ Paratype ”; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ BRASIL, SC, Nova Teutônia | 27°11′B, 52°23′L[27°11′S 52°23′W] | 09.vii.1938 | Fritz Plaumann col. | P ”; (3) printed on white paper:“ PARALECTOTYPE | Australosymmerus (Melosymmerus) | bisetosus ( Edwards, 1940) | Designated by Falaschi, RL & | Amorim, DS”; (4) printed on white paper:“ MZ004473 ” .

Condition of paralectotype: Head, thorax and three undetermined legs, and an undetermined broken wing slide-mounted on a permanent slide; male terminalia kept in the microvial. Missing parts: antennae, abdomen, undetermined wing, and three undetermined legs.