Apetaenus (Macrocanace) australis Hutton 1902

• Main Author: Munari, Lorenzo
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Canacidae; Apetaenus; Apetaenus australis; New Zealand; Stella; Campbell Island; Adams Island; Rima; Camp Cove; Antipodes Island; Auckland Islands; Enderby Island; Snares Islands; Rose Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6227822; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6227822

Apetaenus (Macrocanace) australis (Hutton, 1902) (figs. 1–2, 5, 7–8) Ochtiphila australis Hutton, 1902: 174 [Campbell Island; HT ɗ, NZAC (originally in the Cawthron Institute collection). However, the holotype does not appear in the list of the “Primary type specimens in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC): Diptera ” (Web Version 1 – June 1997)]. Macrocanace australis.— Tonnoir and Malloch, 1926: 5 [generic combination].— Harrison, 1976: 142 –143 [citation, southern islands of New Zealand subregion]. Apetaenus australis.— Mathis and Sasakawa, 1989: 667 [generic combination, Australasian/Oceanian catalog].— Mathis and Munari, 1996: 7 [World catalog].— Marris, 2000: 193 [citation, Campbell Island].— D.K. McAlpine, 2007: 30, 36–37 [SEM photographs of lower face and adjacent parts, fore basitarsus, acropod, and part of costa]. Macrocanace antipoda Harrison, 1953: 276 [Antipodes Island: Ringdove Bay (spider’s web); HT &, AMNZ]; 1959: 251 [synonymy]. Distribution. Australasian/Oceanian: Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell, and Snares islands. Material examined. 53 ɗɗ 71 ΨΨ 2 undet. sex—NZAC—from Antipodes (Reef Pt, Stella Bay), Auckland (Adams Island), Campbell (Beeman Camp, De la Vire Pt, Tucker Cove), and Snares Islands (Biological Station, Seal Cove, Tern Point) were examined, all of them formerly determined and published as Macrocanace australis (Hutton) by Harrison (1976). Other specimens examined. NZAC—Auckland Islands (Exp. 1972 – 73): Camp Cove, littoral rocks, seaweed beds, sweeping rocky shore, 8.ii. and 17.ii. 1973, J. S. Dugdale, 6 ɗɗ 6 ΨΨ; Enderby Island, West of Sandy Bay, around shag [Phalacrocoracidae] nests on cliff faces, 26.ii. 1973, J. S. Dugdale, 1 ɗ; Rose Island, on coastal rocks, 26.ii. 1973, J. S. Dugdale, 1 Ψ; Tagua Bay, Carnley Harbour, supralittoral, 11.ii. 1973, J. S. Dugdale, 2 ΨΨ. Snares Islands: Rima Islet, Western Chain, seal dung on rocks, 5 m, 21.xi. 1976, J. W. Early, 1 ɗ; Sinkhole Gut, rotting Durvillea, high eulittoral zone, seal faeces on supralittoral rock, 14.vi. and ...