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Genus PROSENA Le Peletier & Serville 



Calirrhoe Meigen, 1800 : 39. [Name suppressed by I. C.Z.N. Opinion 678 (1963 : 339)] 

 Prosena Le Peletier & Serville, 1828 : 499, 500. Type-species: Stomoxys siberita Fabricius, 

 1775, by original designation. (Denmark). 



arcuata Malloch, 1932a : 129. Holotype g, New South Wales: Killara, Allowrie (SPHTM 



Sydney) [examined]. - N.S.W. 

 argentata Curran, 19276:348. Holotype <$, Queensland: Kuranda (DEI, Eberswalde). - 



Qld. 



P. argentata Curran is a junior primary homonym of P. argentata Walker, 1859. No 



new name is proposed at the present time. 

 bella Curran, 19276 : 349. Holotype,^, Queensland: Cairns (DEI, Eberswalde). - Qld. 

 bisetosa Malloch, 1932a : 130. Holotype^, Queensland: Cairns district (SPHTM, Sydney) 



[examined]. -Qld., N.S.W. (?). 

 conica Guerin-Meneville, 1831 : Plate 21, fig. 7, 7A; 1838 : 298. Holotype g, New South 



Wales: Port Jackson ( = Sydney) (MNHN, Paris) [examined]. - N.S.W., Qld. 

 albifrons Malloch, 1932a : 132. Holotype^, Queensland: Eidsvold (not located). Syn. n. 

 [argentata Curran sensu Malloch, 1930 (misidentification)] 

 dimidiata Curran, 1938 : 188. Holotype $, Queensland: Kuranda (SPHTM, Sydney) 



[examined]. - Qld. 

 dispar Macquart, 1851 : 203 (230). Lectotype $ (by designation of Crosskey, 1971 : 284), 



'Tasmania' (MNHN, Paris) [examined]. - N.S.W., Tasm. (?). 

 doddi Curran, 19276 : 347. Holotype^, Queensland: Herberton (DEI, Eberswalde). - N.T., 



Qld. ( = siberita Fabricius according to Malloch, 1932a : 131). 

 dorsalis Macquart, 1847 : 97 (81). Holotype <§, Tasmania (BMNH, London) [examined]. - 



N.S.W., Tasm. 

 parva Malloch, 1930a : 115. Holotype 9. New South Wales: Sydney (SPHTM, Sydney) 



[examined]. Syn. n. 

 jactans Walker, 1858 : 210 (Pachymyia) . Holotype $ [? Australia] (BMNH, London) 



[examined]. - N.S.W., Qld. 

 macropus Thomson, 1869 : 531. Holotype g. New South Wales: Sydney (NR, Stockholm) 



[examined]. - N.S.W., Tasm. 

 indecisa Malloch, 1930a : 116. Holotype <£, New South Wales: Barrington Tops (not 



located). Syn. n. 



Paratypes undoubtedly conspecific with missing holotype are in USNM, Washington, 



and SPHTM, Sydney [examined]. 

 malayana Townsend, 1926a : 25 (Calirrhoe). Lectotype $ (by designation of Crosskey, 



1969 : 91), Sumatra: Fort de Kock (ZM, Amsterdam) [examined]. — Qld.; widespread 



S.E. Asia. (Possibly = siberita). 



P. malayana was considered by Curran (1938 : 189) to be a senior synonym of P. doddi. 



Evidence is inconclusive. 

 marginalis Curran, 1938 : 189. Holotype <£, Queensland: Brisbane (SPHTM, Sydney) 



[examined]. - Qld. 

 nigripes Curran, 19276 : 347. Holotype (J, Queensland: Palmerston (DEI, Eberswalde). - 



N.T., Qld. (Probably = malayana). 

 rufiventris Macquart, 1847 : 96 (80). Holotype 9. 'Tasmania' (BMNH, London) [examined]. 



-Qld., Tasm. (?). 

 siberita Fabricius, 1775 : 798 (Stomoxys). Type(s), Denmark: Copenhagen (lost). - N.S.W., 



Qld. ; widespread Europe and Asia. (Possibly misidentified from Australia) 

 sibirita. Incorrect subsequent spelling of siberita Fabricius. 

 confusa Malloch, 1930a : 115 (as var. of siberita). Holotype g, Queensland: Eidsvold 



(SPHTM, Sydney) [examined]. 

 surda Curran, 1938 : 190. Holotype <$, Queensland: Kuranda (BMNH, London, ex coll. 



Wainwright) [examined]. - N.S.W., Qld., W.A. 



