A review of Australian Leptidae (Dipteraf).

Abstract

The present work is the first attempt to review fully this very poorly studied family. The Australian Leptidae are represented by 66 species distributed among 5 genera; 45 of the species are new: 20 in Chrysopilus, 1 in Austroleptis, 2 in Spania, 7 in Dasyomma, and 15 in Atherimorpha. The increase in the number of known species from 21 to 66, in a family known to have been poorly collected, indicates that a considerably greater number of species awaits description.