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Published: 2018-01-25
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Reassignment of Western Australia Paracnephia gladiator Moulton & Adler
to a new genus, Bunyipellum (Diptera: Simuliidae)

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, T6G 2E9.
Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6.
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Building, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA 37996-4560.
Western Australia Gondwana Simuliidae Bunyipellum nov. gen. bionomics biogeography Diptera

Abstract

With new material available of most stages of many known Australian Paracnephia, including new species, it is now clear that certain segregates warrant assignment to new genera. This applies to Paracnephia gladiator Moulton & Adler, a Western Australia simuliid with numerous unique character states. The species is fully redescribed and assigned to Bunyipellum nov. gen. A diagnosis is provided and relationships discussed, as is historical biogeography. Bunyipellum appears to be more closely related to elements of the South American simuliid fauna than to any other Gondwanan Australian species.

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