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Tricholyga. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Thrycolyga Rondani. 

 [Tachina Meigen sensu authors (misidentification)] 



auriceps Macquart, 1851 : 158 (185). Holotype $, [Tasmania: publ. as Oceania] (MNHN, 

 Paris) [examined]. - Tasm. (Probably = flaviceps). 



Mesnil (i960 : 578) placed auriceps (with the wrongly cited date 1849) as a synonym 

 of sorbillans (Wiedemann) and Herting (1962 : 80) wrote that 'Die Type von sorbillans 

 Wied. aus Teneriffa . . . ist mit auriceps Macq. identisch'. Though auriceps undoubtedly 

 belongs to the sorbillans complex it is here considered insufficiently substantiated that 

 auriceps is synonymous with sorbillans s. str. (particularly as the male genitalia of auriceps 

 holotype have never been examined) and the name auriceps is here maintained as valid 

 pending further study. 



coras Walker, 1849 : 785 (Tachina). Holotype <$ [abdomen lost], Western Australia: 

 Perth (BMNH, London) [examined]. - N.S.W., W.A. 



curriei Curran, 1938 : 197 (Thrycolyga). Holotype (J, Queensland: Lawnton (BMNH, 

 London) [examined]. - Qld. 



doddi Curran, 1938 : 201 (Zenillia). Holotype q, Queensland : Herberton (DEI, Eberswalde) 



[examined]. - Qld. 

 flaviceps Macquart, 1847 : 83 (67). Holotype <$, Tasmania (BMNH, London) [examined]. - 

 N.S.W., S.A., Tasm., Vict. 

 consanguinea Macquart, 1851 : 167 (194) (Masicera). Holotype J, [Tasmania: publ. as 

 Oceania] (MNHN, Paris) [examined]. Syn. n. 



mungomeryi Baranov, 19386 : 410 (Eutachina). Lectotype <$ (by designation of Sabrosky 

 & Crosskey, 1969 : 43), Queensland: Gordonvale (BMNH, London) [examined]. - Qld. 



psychidivora Coquillett, 1904 : 137 (Tachina). Holotype <$, Western Australia (USX.M, 

 Washington) [examined]. -W.A. 



sorbillans Wiedemann, 1830 : 311 (Tachina). Lectotype^ (by fixation of Townsend, 1932 : 45), 

 Canary Islands: Teneriffe (NM, Vienna). - Qld; New Guinea; widespread S. Palae- 

 arctic, Oriental, Ethiopian Regions. 



This species was described from at least two syntypes, as Wiedemann stated 'In v. 

 Winthem's und meiner Sammlung'. There are no surviving specimens in Wiedemann's 

 collection, but an original syntype exists in von Winthem's collection (Vienna). This 

 specimen was cited by Townsend (1932 : 45) as 'male Ht [=holotype] in Wien, labelled 

 "Teneriffa : Coll Winthem" ', who thus provided a valid fixation of the specimen as 

 lectotype. The lectotype was not available during the preparation of the present work, 

 but has been examined by Herting (1962 : 80). 



Confirmation is needed that Queensland specimens are truly conspecific with the 

 lectotype. 



tristis Curran, 1938 : 203 (Zenillia). Holotype $. Queensland: Cairns (DEI, Eberswalde) 

 [examined]. - Qld. 



Genus HILLOMYIA Crosskey nom. n. 



Hillia Malloch, 19296 : 328. Type-species : Hillia polita Malloch, 1929, by original designation. 



[Junior homonym of Hillia Grote, 1883.] 

 Hillomyia Crosskey nom. n. [New name for Hillia Malloch.] 



polita Malloch, 19296 : 328. Holotype $, Northern Territory: Darwin (ANIC, Canberra) 

 [examined]. Comb. n. - N.T. 



Genus SPOGGOSIA Rondani* 



Spoggosia Rondani, 1859 : 182. Type-species: Spoggosia occlusa Rondani, 1859 [=Salia 



echinura Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830], by monotypy. (Europe). 

 * See Appendix, p. 209. 



