Rangomaramidae

Barahona-Segovia, Rodrigo M., Madriz, Isaí, González, Christian R. & Amorim, Dalton De Souza, 2024, An update on the knowledge and general understanding of the Chilean Diptera diversity, Zootaxa 5518 (1), pp. 1-87 : 14

Rangomaramidae

The family Rangomaramidae comprises over 30 described species, grouped into four subfamilies and 11 extant genera ( Amorim & Rindal 2007). There are 13 species recorded for the Chilean fauna: Chiletricha Chandler , Colonomyia Colless and Ohakunea Edwards ( Amorim & Falaschi 2012) . Chiletricha belongs to Chiletrichinae , a subfamily with several genera and relict distributions in different parts of the world, and seven species in Chile (some are also present in Argentina) and one species in southern Brazil. The Ohakuneinae genus Colonomyia (also present in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Costa Rica, and southern Brazil) have four known species from Chile, two of which are also present in Argentina; Ohakunea also has species in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, and southern South America. Ohakunea chilensis Freeman is abundant in southern Chile, with records for Argentina. There appears to be an undescribed genus of this family in the temperate rainforests of southern Chile.