Austroleptidae (Nagatomi, 1982)

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 : 16

Austroleptidae ( Fig. 22 )

The Austroleptidae comprises 11 species grouped into a single genus in the family, Austroleptis Hardy ( Fachin et al. 2018, 2020). The genus is known from Australia and southern South America. There are five known species from Chile, mainly distributed throughout southern Chile and Argentina. Some of the Chilean species have been illustrated in Fachin et al. (2018).

Figures

FIGURES 20–25. Xylophagomorpha and Tabanomorpha of Chile: (20) Heterostomus curvipalpis Bigot (Xylophagidae, photo by Asiel Olivares); (21) Dasyomma caeruleum Macquart (Atherecidae, photo by Matías Gargiulo); (22) Austroleptis penai Nagatomi & Nagatomi (Austroleptidae, photo by Dalton de Souza Amorim); (23) Coenura biguttatus (Philippi) (Pelecorhynchidae, photo by Ricardo Varela); (24) Atherinomorpha sp. (Rhagionidae, photo by Daniel Llavaneras); (25) Osca lata (Guerin-Méneville), larvae (Tabanidae, photo by Christian R. González).