Austroleptis Hardy, 1920

Fachin, Diego Aguilar, González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario & Hauser, Martin, 2024, An illustrated catalog of the South American Austroleptidae (Diptera: Tabanomorpha), with a compilation of all known records and new records from Chile and Argentina, Zootaxa 5514 (3), pp. 273-293 : 279

Genus Austroleptis Hardy, 1920

Austroleptis Hardy, 1920: 126–127 . Type species: Austroleptis rhyphoides Hardy, 1920 (orig. des.).

References. Hardy, 1920: 120 (in key); Malloch, 1932: 201 (in key), 202 (com.); Stuardo, 1946: 76 (cat.); Paramonov, 1962: 115 (in key), 136 (redescr., key to Australian spp.); Hennig, 1972: 5 (com.); Nagatomi & Iwata, 1976: 42–43 (com.), 46 (female gen., fig. 34); Nagatomi, 1977: 332–333 (com., diag.); Nagatomi, 1982a: 34, 36 (in key), 37 (redescr.), 60 (antenna, fig. 4), 66 (wing, figs. 30–31); Nagatomi, 1982b: 141–142, 146 (distr.); Nagatomi & Nagatomi, 1987: 140 (com., Chilean spp.); Colless & McAlpine, 1991: 753 (com., in Rhagionidae ); Nagatomi, 1991: 28 (com.); Sinclair et al., 1994: 412, 414 (com.); Stuckenberg, 2001: 19 ( Austroleptidae as family, status revised); Santos, 2008: 48 (com., distr.); Amorim, 2009: 75 (com.); Yeates et al., 2009: 239 (com.); Kerr, 2010: 69 (in key), 70–71 (redescr.); Fachin et al., 2018: 557–558 (com.), 559 (diag.), 571 (com.); Fachin et al., 2020: 483–484 (com.).

Comments. The first and only identification key for the species from Chile was provided by Nagatomi & Nagatomi (1987). This key does not work very well for several specimens, because the authors did not have a lot of material at hand and could not evaluate the extant variation within each species. The Brazilian species can be determined using the key given by Fachin et al. (2020).